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A fiery pain shot down my left leg as I struggled to change from my exam gown into leggings. It made me want to scream. But the conversation out\u00adside the X-ray dressing room door was almost as troubling. \u201cThis scoliosis<\/a> is severe,\u201d I heard my chiropractor say. \u201cIt\u2019s likely causing her sciatica.\u201d<\/p>\n

For months, I had trekked from specialist to specialist in search of the cause of my sciatica. I\u2019d asked if it could be related to the scoliosis that had been diagnosed back when I was in grade school.<\/p>\n

Finally some\u00adone listened, and I had my answer. The whole thing was caused by my neurofibromatosis<\/a>, the genetic condi\u00adtion that had caused painful tumors to grow throughout my body and skeletal abnormalities like the scoliosis.<\/p>\n

How could this be? In 2018, God had delivered me from 63 years of agony from neurofibromatosis, including a two-decade dependence on prescrip\u00adtion OxyContin. Gone for good was the Roberta for whom pain and uncer\u00adtainty had driven every decision. I was stunned at my brand-new life. Overjoyed.<\/p>\n

In three years, I hadn\u2019t so much as in\u00adgested an aspirin for pain relief. I\u2019d tapered off all 14 of my meds. Not one expert had a name for what had happened, only that my brain had some\u00adhow reprogrammed it\u00adself after those opioids stopped.<\/p>\n

Even retired from a 42-year nursing career, I didn\u2019t need a fancy medical term. It was a bona fide miracle<\/a>. If God could change all that, this back thing would be a cinch. In one fell swoop, he\u2019d take away the pain again\u2026wouldn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n

But with this sciatica, God seemed silent. I did all I knew to do to push through the pain. Torturous physical therapy exercises. Daily walks. I recit\u00aded Scripture and positive affirmations. Tried heat and ice, deep breathing, visualization, massage therapy, acu\u00adpressure.<\/p>\n

When these measures failed, a provider suggested opioids<\/a>. Never again! <\/em>I couldn\u2019t, I wouldn\u2019t, go back to that. Once more my body had betrayed me. I wondered if God had too.<\/p>\n

I tried to keep busy, but I couldn\u2019t sit, walk or even lie down without that shooting, burning pain. Then the pandemic hit. The isolation<\/a> and un\u00adcertainty of Covid disconnected me from everyone and everything I cared about. Especially my faith.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t be serious, <\/em>I practically snarled at God. You gave me a new life, only to have it whisked away? <\/em><\/p>\n

My leg and foot grew weak and numb. I stopped doing my PT exercises and daily walks<\/a> on my country road. With the loss of feeling, I couldn\u2019t chance stepping on a stone and losing my balance. A fall might mean a bro\u00adken bone, a wheelchair or worse.<\/p>\n

When a new clinician jokingly di\u00adagnosed my condition as TMB\u2014\u201ctoo many birthdays\u201d\u2014I was heartsick. Al\u00adthough as a traditionally trained nurse I\u2019d been a bit leery of chiropractic medicine, I finally made an appoint\u00adment with a chiropractor a friend had recommended. I was desperate.<\/p>\n

The evening before my consulta\u00adtion, a man telephoned, introducing himself as the chiropractor<\/a>. Dr. Perry asked how I was doing, then added, \u201cI look forward to hearing about your life, Roberta. So we can work together to make you better.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was different. I\u2019d been a life\u00adlong patient with excellent providers. Still, health care had been done to me and for me. Never with <\/em>me.<\/p>\n

At my appointment, Dr. Perry il\u00adlustrated everything using a model of the spine. He theorized that the incorrect medication dosage I\u2019d been given while tapering off my meds had likely set my sciatic pain in motion.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d gained 65 pounds in a matter of months, which put pressure on that nerve. Then I\u2019d become profoundly anemic, so less oxygen went to my tis\u00adsues. Fatigue and shortness of breath had led me to spend more time in bed, the immobility further weakening my back muscles.<\/p>\n

With all I had working against me, I was terrified of what the future would bring. But Dr. Perry\u2019s voice and eyes spoke of possibility. \u201cIf we can manipulate your spine just a couple of millimeters,\u201d he said, \u201cit should clear your sciatic nerve. I believe you\u2019ll be out of pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was then that I caught a snippet of a tune coming from his radio. \u201cThat song!\u201d I blurted out. \u201cIt used to help me feel better.\u201d Dr. Perry and I listened to the words: For the God on the moun\u00adtain is still God in the valley\u2026. <\/em><\/p>\n

The lyrics moved him as much as they did me. A single tear slipped down and dampened his mask. In the most sacred moment<\/a> of all my years in health care, I heard Dr. Perry say softly, \u201cI cannot cure you. But I will care for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before he performed my first spinal adjustment, Dr. Perry said, \u201cYou are fear\u00adfully and wonderfully made, Roberta.\u201d With due respect to the Psalms, he couldn\u2019t possibly mean me. Had he forgotten my very genes were de\u00adfective? About the 37 surgeries for remov\u00ading the tumors I was as programmed to have as my blue eyes?<\/p>\n

I figured fearfully <\/em>made sense\u2014I\u2019d lived from fear to fear most of my life\u2014but wonderfully<\/em>? Still, Dr. Perry made such an impres\u00adsion on me that I read up on the verse when I got home. I discovered that in Hebrew, yare<\/em>, the word we translate as \u201cfearfully,\u201d means \u201cwith reverence and respect.\u201d The way Dr. Perry was treating me. The doubt in my spirit shifted, making room for hope<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Within a few weeks, my pain was gone. The weakness and numbness in my leg and foot soon left too. In the past, I\u2019d bounced from crisis to crisis, necessitating medical intervention. This healing took a different course.<\/p>\n

As Dr. Perry promised, it wasn\u2019t about a cure but about care. Taking care of myself meant adopting some lifestyle changes. Daily strengthening exer\u00adcises for my back. A commitment to walking and good nutrition<\/a>. In the past, desperate to lose weight, I\u2019d been consuming less than a thousand calories a day. My body had kicked into starvation mode.<\/p>\n

A consult with a clinical dietitian revealed I needed to consume more calories in order to reset my metabolism and lose weight. When I ate the right things, I had more vitality and energy. The absence of pain made it easier to exercise, and I began losing a pound a week.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d never discussed lifestyle changes with a pro\u00advider before. With every treatment, I felt better and better. I began to won\u00adder if sciatica had also been part of a divine plan<\/a>. One that would ultimate\u00adly make me healthier, stronger.<\/p>\n

Sometimes life\u2019s nos can be God\u2019s yeses. A treatment modality I would have never considered connected me to something I\u2019d over\u00adlooked during four decades of nursing: Our bodies are designed to participate in our own healing. When I found a provider who respected and valued the body I\u2019d been given, I no longer focused on its deficits.<\/p>\n

The approach was so healing that I committed to doing everything I could to move my body toward wellness<\/a>. And I felt more at one than ever with the God who\u2019d created that body.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a verse in Ecclesiastes that says a cord of three strands is not easily broken. I\u2019d always thought of those words in regard to a marriage or a friendship. But they also describe health care at its finest, where a provid\u00ader and a patient work together toward a common goal, with God the central strand. It\u2019s a can\u2019t-fail approach to be\u00ading the healthiest I can be.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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