Little Maggie entered our office in the arms of her mother, very listless, with no energy to hold her own body outside of a protective fetal position. She was seven-years-old and full of love, but also full of disease. She had already undergone two open heart surgeries, had a shunt on the left side of her brain, drooled uncontrollably, had a severe scoliotic hump over her right shoulder blade the size of a grapefruit, cerebral palsy, and a very hard time breathing and speaking clearly. Her mother brought her to us with only the idea of relieving her headaches.
She was seen four days consecutively, and after her first adjustment, her headaches disappeared and her mother and Maggie were very pleased. On her second visit she was walking herself through our office, standing straight, speaking more clearly and understandably, and not drooling -- still full of love, but now full of life. The musculature over her scoliotic hump was relaxed, her breathing had improved, she was eating "like a pig," and not falling asleep in school. And, yes, her mother was aware and astounded at these miraculous results. Her body was beginning to function at 100 percent, finally, after seven years of dysfunction.
Why was her little body allowed to dysfunction for seven years? At approximately six months of age her mother did notice the beginning of her hump and the MDs said, "Don't worry about it; it will straighten out on its own." Well, the body couldn't pull this one off on its own; it needed help, chiropractic help, but seven years ago. Imagine how different this little girl's life would have been if chiropractic had been part of her life then.
What a coincidence that her lungs, heart, and digestive systems were being so dramatically aggravated and not functioning properly for seven years. This directly relates to the area that her scoliosis was, with the vertebral levels that feed these systems with nervous impulse, with life flow.
Little Maggie continued to progress and within four days her body reacted incredibly. Now her innate was allowed to flow freely without nerve interference -- with the help of chiropractic.
Maggie had an appointment to go into the Childrens Hospital to get her scoliosis brace refitted and we never saw her again. The MDs had been monitoring a brain aneurysm in little Maggie and decided to operate to see if it could be removed. She was in recovery and stopped breathing, became brain dead and was put on respiratory machines for one day. This is when we received a phone call, after searching for her and her mother for three to four days. They took her off the machines and she passed on. Why couldn't they just leave her alone? I wish I could think of an answer, and I wish we could have helped her more.
The day before her surgery she was planning her day with her mother, and it was a tossup between the chiropractors or the circus. Maggie actually couldn't decide and her mother said she could only choose one. Maggie made her mother promise that if she went to the circus that day, that as soon as she got out of the hospital, she had to take her right to the chiropractors. Maggie went to the circus that day and got to see all of her favorite animals, especially the elephants.
Little, beautiful Maggie, so full of love, stole all of our hearts and everyone's heart that she came in contact with. She is in heaven now -- running and laughing with all of God's little angels, pain free, and full of love.
Thank you Sandra Blackmon for sharing your daughter with all of us; she and you are very special. God Bless.
Kim Vaccaro, DC
Lili Gipson, DC
Acworth, Georgia
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