Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what is known to us in nature.
- St. Augustine

Nature knows no trifling; she is always sincere, always serious, always stern, she is always in the right, and the errors and mistakes are invariably ours. - Goethe

Happy Mother's Day to all those wonderful mothers out there!
If you happen to be a Motherless Daughter, please read on:

Motherless Daughters: I lost my mom in July 1996. Every mother's day that has come along since has been very difficult for me. I think about my mom daily and the first year was the worst. With any loss, it feels that way to me since I lost my father in 2000 and my life partner last year. The charge of the emotion tends to decrease (ie - not crying at the drop of a hat) but the feelings of intense loss are still there and certain songs and people I run into remind me of my mother - especially if it is something we shared. I don't have any children but their birthdays would certainly evoke emotion on missing Mom too. Her birthday, my birthday brings up those bittersweet memories. Sometimes I even still get mail for her which is even more annoying. You would think after ten years the mail would stop coming. Also, what about the ignorant things people say when a loss occurs? People mean well, but often do not realize how you feel until they unfortunately go through the loss themselves.

My mom was my best friend. We would shop and talk together. She would often buy me things and surprise me. We would discuss so many things about her life and mine. It was a shock when I learned that she had pancreatic cancer. She never drank a drop of alcohol but she did smoke for 30 years and then quit the past 10 years when she had a cough that would not go away. It certainly caught up with her years later when she was diagnosed.

Her doctor phoned me to tell me the news on the cat scan. She was too cowardly to tell my mother myself and so I was elected the family member to break the news. Up until that point, my mom was working with our family business of hair care supplies and was driving, shopping and doing self-care just as usual. As soon as she was told she had the "C" word, she became a deaf mute. She did not talk to us and became very angry. She did not move from her wheelchair and became a lot sicker. Within a few days, my mother slipped into a coma. The power of those words we told her began to settle into me. Amazing the mind-body connection.

My dear mom lived five more weeks. I was regularly at her bedside as was my father who was going quietly petrified at the loss of his wife of 42 years. It was hard to see my dad deteriorating too. I would still of course talk to her, hold her hand, climb into bed with her like I was 5, and tell her how much I loved her and it was okay to "let go". That was the hardest part…telling her to let go. That meant not ever seeing my mom in the physical body again, but I knew it was the most unselfish thing to say and do.

My mom passed out of this world and I still feel her presence to this day. My father and I subsequently spent loads more time together and got to know each other on a whole other level. It was so exquisite and I will treasure these memories for the rest of my life. Having these experiences, I am convinced, has made me a much more compassionate person and doctor. I have been through 3 more deaths of very close family members since and I sometimes wonder where I get the strength to carry on. But I know deep inside that all of those people are still with me, just on another level. I wonder how many others like me know this too?

So, for those of you who are motherless daughters due to your mother's passing, please know that you are not alone. If you are open, maybe you can allow the butterfly, the wind, the flowers, a smell or a song remind you of her. It may be her way of communicating to you from the heaven's above. Just a thought...
...Dr. Lynn

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Why visit a chiropractor?

Each year millions of people enjoy the most popular natural, drug-free health care system in the world -chiropractic! Chiropractic helps people function closer to their physical and emotional best; recover from sickness, disease and disability faster and minimize the use of drugs and surgery in their lives! Many chiropractic users report less stress, more vitality and more enjoyment in life!

Chiropractic is a system of health care that releases a serious stress from your body: the subluxation, an often painless, tiny distortion in your spine and structural system that can affect your nerves, muscles, internal organs, discs, bones, brain, posture and overall health.

Of course, if you presently are ill and suffering, you need your natural healing ability enhanced so you can better fight disease and return yourself to a state of balance and health. That is a fact no matter what disease or condition you may have. By correcting your subluxations, chiropractors help awaken your natural healing ability to function at its optimum; to awaken your "inner doctor."

For millions chiropractic has made the difference between living with pain and living without pain, between living with sickness and living in health, between a fast recovery and a slow recovery and even between life and death.

Why live with health problems when you can live without them? Discover chiropractic - discover how natural healing can be.

Babies and Chiropractic

You do so many things to ensure your baby's health: during pregnancy you eat right; you avoid cigarettes, alcohol and all drugs (even aspirin, cold, flu and other over-the-counter medications can damage your unborn child or cause problems in pregnancy). You educate yourself so you may have a natural, drug-free birth. After the baby arrives you breast-feed knowing that is the sUPerior form of nutrition; in short, you do everything you can to make sure your baby is healthy.

But have you had your baby's spine checked? How do you know if your child's spine is healthy? An unhealthy spine can affect your child's health for his/her entire life. Your doctor of chiropractic is specially trained to check your child's spine for areas of distortion causing nerve damage - the vertebral subluxation complex (subluxations).

With the birth process becoming more and more an intervening procedure, the chiropractic adjustment becomes even more important to the child's future. - Larry Webster, D.C.

For Over a hundred years...

For over a hundred years doctors of chiropractic have observed the often dramatic responses of infants after chiropractic care. In fact, there seems to be no limit to the conditions that can respond to chiropractic care: colic (1), difficulty breast-feeding (2), Erb's palsy (an arm is limp and undeveloped) (3), torticollis (twisted neck) (4), unbalanced face and skull development (5), foot inversion (6), "nervousness" and ear, nose and throat infections (7), allergies and sleep disorders (8), projectile vomiting (9) and many, many other conditions.

Give your baby the best possible chance to have a healthy life. You have your baby's eyes checked, heart checked, hearing checked - bring all your children in for a chiropractic spinal checkUP. A simple checkUP now might make a BIG difference for your children for the rest of their lives.

Since ancient times the once rare disease (until the last 100 years) we call cancer was considered a deficiency disease. A major reason why cancer rates are increasing is because many people are living on dead foods such as sugar, high fructose corn syrup, white flour, processed oils, denatured (pasteurized/processed) dairy products, bizarre chemicals added to our foods, and fruits and vegetables that are low in essential minerals. In addition, many nutritionists say that people overeat because they are starving for essential nutrients that are lacking in modern packaged foods.

Beware of Back Surgery

Back surgery has such a high failure rate it should be outlawed. In a University of Cincinnati study of Ohio workers' compensation claimants with low back pain, 725 workers opted for lumbar spinal fusion surgery as treatment for back pain. A full 64% were still off work more than a year later! Only 6% had gone back to work and stayed for a full year. Approximately 20% had significant complications and 27% were in such pain that they needed another operation.

Some 90% were in such pain they were still taking narcotics at follow-up. (11) A similar 1994 study of Washington State workers also found high rates of postoperative disability, high re-operation rates, and inadequate relief of back pain. (12) A study by Nicholas Ahn, MD, et al found that after single-level fusion, the total disability rate approaches 25% while for those who had two- and three-level fusions, the postoperative disability was 70% and 100%, respectively. (13)

Before anyone ever considers spinal surgery they should check out the non-medical, non-surgical chiropractic alternative. (14)

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UP

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends and we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.
At other times the little word has a real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.

And this UP is confusing:
A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!

To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.
One could go on & on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so .... Time to shut UP....!

Oh...one more thing:! What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at night? U- P