This is a story of 12-year-old, Laura, a developmentally delayed girl, who as the newspaper reported, “went from being the neighborhood pity to the neighborhood Rocky.”
As a baby, Laura was initially diagnosed as being mildly mentally retarded.
Later, when it came time for her to start school, her skills and test scores placed her at the severely retarded level.
John and Mary, Laura’s parents, never gave up hope or stopped fighting for their daughter. Mary spent half her life on the Internet looking for the answers to why Laura’s body had betrayed her. Laura kept falling down, she would also start to binge-eat and sometimes refuse to talk to her family for long periods of time.
Neither the Internet nor her doctors could give Laura’s mom Mary the answers she was looking for.
The medical doctors were saying that everything medical science had to offer, inside the confines of an HMO plan, was being done to help. “I was on the diagnosis merry-go-round, going nowhere,” Mary says.
“There were plenty of explanations and excuses, but no answers.” She continued, “She had orthotics put in her shoes, but her knees were still swollen and getting worse.
Her right leg and foot were starting to turn in. The orthopedic doctors suggested knee braces and painkillers.”
Then one day, a neighbor names Pam wrenched her knee and went to see a doctor of chiropractic.
While under the doctor’s care, she told the chiropractor about Laura. She mentioned that Laura was falling down all the time, and would soon need braces and a steady diet of painkillers just to get around.
“The idea of this wonderful little girl who had already been through so much, now needing braces to walk really threw me,” Pam said. Later that day, Pam went to see Mary and told her to see the same doctor who she said also treated kids.
Pam told Mary, “Go see him, what could it hurt?”
That’s exactly what Mary did as she brought Laura to see the doctor. And the results were miraculous! The doctor said he found a vertebra at the base of her skull was way out of place and putting pressure on her nerves. So he adjusted it.
Laura’s mom Mary thought the procedure was so simple, yet the results were so profound. “The first thing Laura did was let out a big sigh of relief,” Mary said. “That night she came down the stairs by herself.
We were stunned. This used to take forever with Laura holding on to rails, her dad in front so she wouldn’t fall, and me guiding from behind. Laura now wants to move and run and be a real kid for the first time.
All the doctors said that her foot would stay turned in and there was nothing they could do. Well, her foot has straightened out, too.”
The newspaper story further reported that the girl’s life was changed when this summer, Laura did something Mary, in her most optimistic dreams, never would have thought possible.
With her mom and dad, younger sister Julie, and older brother Edward cheering her on and bursting with pride, Laura swam with the dolphins at Sea World. Laura’s mom Mary concluded by saying, “When we’d walk the dogs, Laura couldn’t keep up. Now, she’s out front.
It’s been a remarkable transformation. Look at her; she’s so proud of herself.”
There are a number of things that we can help people with if given the chance. We can’t guarantee anything obviously, but we always want you to know that we’ll do our best to help anyone, with anything. If you remove the nerve interference, the body will do the healing. We don’t use drugs and we don’t do surgery, but we do offer you the best in chiropractic care at this office. Just share this newsletter with your friends and family members.