Archive for November, 2011

I Don’t Even Have a Battery!

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

I recently got the new iPhone 4s and it has battery issues. The battery drains very quickly and Apple has yet to come up with a fix for it for all of the phones. Even with the new iOS update, my battery keeps draining.

To keep up the battery life on my phone, I’m constantly double “clicking” the home button to kill apps running in the background. This seems to help a little… but never enough to get my battery to run through the day.

Funny. That’s kind of a metaphor for my life recently.

Lately I’ve been feeling more run down than usual. I’m sleeping at night, (sometimes not the greatest, but it’s sleep!), I’m exercising more, paying attention to what I eat, and taking vitamins. I am doing the same things during the day and still, I am wiped out by 9:00. Most nights, I’m sleeping by 9:30. It sounds pathetic for a 31 year old!

Then, in a conversation with a friend, I had an epiphany. The adoption is what is wearing me out. The wait and the not knowing. The constant what if. It is constantly running in the background. Whenever the phone rings, I’m secretly hoping it’s the agency. Every email from Adoptions of Wisconsin, I’m hoping for more news. But nothing.

There are days I can be completely fine and talk to anyone and everyone about the adoption and how excited I am. There are other days that I cry at the drop of a hat when someone mentions it. (Like last week at my yearly check-up… that was fun!) I know with the holidays right around the corner, when we show up to family and friends houses, questions will be asked… and I can not be sure what reaction each individual person might get.

I’m constantly thinking about it. Tony even told me that he doesn’t think about it, because he knows I am, so he doesn’t have to. Even when I’m not thinking about it, it’s there, draining my battery.

Clearly I need an iOS update. Preferably one that includes a tropical destination in order to update.

Geri 31.2.1 will be the best!

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Doctor, Doctor!!

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

I am reading several books on adoption.  After reading a TON of those, feeling I had a great grasp on everything, I realized I felt like an expert on adoption… but knew nothing about babies… so off to the parenting section of the book store I went.

Now, reading the parenting books as well as the adoption books, all of them stress how important it is for me to select my future child’s pediatrician.  I am to “make sure that they understand adoption” and “will take children with limited medical history”.  I know it’s a great thing to establish a relationship with a medical doctor in my community so that if my child is sick, I have someone to go to.  However… where do I go to keep my child well?  How do I keep my child (and family) well and not constantly running to the medicine cabinet?

This is the part where I love where life lead me… to work for a chiropractor.

I have worked for Pro Health Chiropractic for almost 3 years now.  I have learned so much about health care and medical care and how the two differ.  I want medical care when I’m sick.  When my body cannot repair itself, I want someone to intercede.  When I am healthy, I want someone to keep me healthy.

I have written this blog post several times searching for the right words.  Do I explain chiropractic and natural health care and why I’m so passionate about it?  Do I tell the story of how it’s helped me?

Then I was invited to attend a Life University Recruiting Event held on the UW Madison campus.  Dr. Guy Reikeman, the President of the university was speaking.  I have heard Dr. Reikeman speak before.  He is an amazing speaker.  He is a visionary and widely known in the world of chiropractic.  I knew I couldn’t miss it.  And when I got there that night, I knew why I had to be there.  He recited this poem and it resonated so much with me.  It explains perfectly why I want my family to have chiropractic care.

 

“An Ambulance Down in the Valley”

T’was a dangerous cliff as they freely confessed,

Though to walk by its edge was quite pleasant.

But over its edge slipped a Duke and an Earl

And it had fooled many a peasant.

The people said something would have to be done,

But their projects did not at all tally.

Some said “Put a fence around the edge of the cliff,”

Others, “an ambulance down in the valley.”

The lament of the crowd was profound and quite loud,

As their hearts overflowed with great pity:

But the ambulance carried the cry of the day,

As it spread to the neighboring cities.

So a collection was made to accumulate aid,

And dwellers in highway and alley.

Gave dollars and cents not to furnish a fence,

But an ambulance down in the valley.

“For the cliff is all right if you’re careful”, they said

“And if folks ever slip and are falling;

It’s not the slipping and sliding that hurts them so much

As the shock down below when they’re stopping.”

And so for the years these mishaps occurred,

Quick forth would the rescuers sally,

To pick up the victims who fell from the cliff,

With the ambulance down in the valley.

Said one in his plea, “It’s a marvel to me

That you’d give much greater attention,

To repairing results than to curing the cause;

Why you’d much better aim at prevention,

For the mischief, of course, should be stopped at its source:

Come friends and neighbors, let us rally!

It makes far better sense to rely on the fence,

Than the ambulance down in the valley.”

“He’s wrong in his head,” the majority said.

“He would end all our earnest endeavors.

He’s the kind of a jerk who would halt our good work,

But we will support it for ever.

Aren’t we picking up all just as fast as they fall,

and giving them care quite liberally?

Why, a superfluous fence is of no consequence

If the ambulance works in the valley.”

Now this story seems queer as I’ve given it here,

But things oft occur which are stranger.

More humane we assert to repair the hurt,

Than the plan of removing the danger.

The best possible course would be to safeguard the source,

And to attend to things rationally.

Yes, build up the fence and let us dispense

With this ambulance down in the valley.”

“We can no longer exist in the contradiction between what we say in our words and deeds as an expression of our fear and separation , and what we hear in the cry of our hearts expressing connectedness and wholeness and the recognition that we are ONE”. John Denver

If you are interested in finding out more about Chiropractic, visit www.prohealthchiro1.com, www.pubmed.com (for research on Chiropractic and … anything) and www.life.edu

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