In a small town, you seemed to be involved in everything or nothing. So to now be suddenly dealing with symptoms like this that were affecting my ability to compete, and even just being a regular kid, was very concerning.
I was also nervous to go to the doctor because of what I had witnessed occurring for a few years before this. You see, my grandmother had a massive heart attack when I was 10. While watching her go through her very long recovery and all of the other issues that followed, the one thing that really bothered me was the number of medications she was taking and the number just kept increasing. She would have a problem and there would be a new medication. This just didn't seem right to me and I was worried the doctor would just do the same thing for my symptoms - just throw some medication at it and never solve the problem.
However, my mother didn't take me to the family doctor, she took me to a chiropractor she had seen after she was involved in a car accident. After just one visit the tingling was gone! It did come back off and on, but as long as I got adjusted when I started to notice tightness in my upper back and shoulders, we were able to keep the tingling at bay. It seemed like a miracle that I had relief so quickly and barely missed out on any of my activities because of it.
Growing up I was always described as a caregiver. It always seemed natural to me. My mom had surgery, I helped her while she healed. After my grandmother's massive heart attack (she lived with us), I helped her when she came home from the hospital. During her lung cancer fight, my parents were both working and she hated taking the transportation to the cancer center for her radiation treatments. I had volunteered to take her since I was old enough to drive.
So as I grew up, I always knew I would do something in a healthcare field. But even after all of those experiences, for some reason, I still planned to become a medical doctor and even chose pre-med as my major.
But I quickly realized that I did not know if I could just hand my patients a piece of paper for prescription after prescription in hopes they would get better. It was while I was on break from school that I stopped in to see my chiropractor that I had been seeing since I was in high school. It was like visiting an old friend and catching up. The bonus was that the tightness and pain in my upper back was better after the short visit.
As I walked back to my parent's house, it dawned on me that this is what I want to do with my life. I want people to come and see me and leave immediately feeling better, all while feeling like they had just visited a friend. So after my undergraduate degree was complete, I enrolled in the Chiropractic program at Northwestern Health Sciences University in Bloomington, Minnesota.
When I graduated, my fiancé was in Bellevue on active duty orders with the Air Force. We decided that Omaha was the perfect place for us to start the next chapter of our lives together and we have been here ever since.
I have been practicing chiropractic in Omaha since 2007 and have felt very blessed to have been able to care for members of this amazing community. My husband and I now have two amazing twin boys who have been adjusted since the second day of their life when they were in the NICU.
So if you or someone close to you is frustrated with their health or chronic pain, or if they are seeking answers to why nothing helps, tell them about Sarpy Chiropractic.
