I was in and out of a wheel chair after blowing out my waist line vertebral joint.

After two years I finally took the risk and got a miracle surgery.

But when I started rehabilitating I realized there were some serious problems from all the years of not using my body:

1. My left hip would not rotate out.
2. Bumps of bone from all the disuse had formed in my neural foramens and were itching nerves — especially nerves that went to my bowels.
3. I could barely rotate to the left at the waist
4. I had become fat and weak .

I would like to say that I had an angel come and touch me and I was healed in an instant — but as it turns out — it took two years of consistent effort to get back to normal.

I was blessed with other forms of help too — a great therapy team for the first three months that educated me on exercises and stretches and one therapist who even wrote up a protocol for me to follow after leaving, many persons and articles on the internet educated me on supplements and treatments, and thirdly my family doctor performed osteopathic manipulation on my spine almost weekly.

But I did not become “normal” again until I started doing my therapy protocol FOUR TIMES DAILY.

This is why I feel chronic problems can be addressed best by consistent and persistent, yet educated effort — whether it be obesity an injury or any other chronic problem.

So stay motivated and surround yourself with those who love you — because those are the ones that will keep you motivated to put up such a persistent fight and triumph — and always remember that God loves you too!