Dear Dr. Nusbaum,

I am writing to thank you for giving me hope again. It has been a long time.

Ten years ago, I was on the ice playing my favourite sport, curling, I still to this day don’t know what happened, but by the time I got off the ice, I knew I was in trouble. My back hurt like crazy and it was as if my legs were going numb, but in the most painful way, like when they are waking up from falling asleep. I barely got home and so began an agonizing month of constant trips to the doctor for drugs and the chiropractor for adjustments. I couldn’t even drive the half hour to the chiropractor, I had to get out and try to walk around. I got through that, but so began a long horrible time of doctoring, and trying to cope with work, raising a family, etc.

I have a bit of scoliosis that of course shows on x-rays and that’s what everyone saw and thought was the problem. Six years ago, I was sent to a Neurosurgeon in Regina, and was told that I was not a candidate for surgery. He gave me a long list of things NOT to do and sent me home. He told me to come back when I was worse and needed surgery. I, of course was in denial and angry so I did as I pleased and suffered more and more.

Finally, I started to realize that this was not going away and my hope left me. In spite of going to the chiropractor regularly (thank goodness he kept me moving), things got progressively worse and worse. I cut way back on work, quit doing things I enjoyed and even things that make a person feel useful, like vacuuming (haha). My main mission was trying to keep from being depressed for my family’s sake.

Twenty months ago, my first grandson was born; I was so excited but soon found out that I could not enjoy him the way that I wanted to. Lifting, holding and caring for him was painful. I cried a lot of tears, not just because of the pain, but the fear and sadness and sense of loss. Around this time, my bowels started giving me trouble, frequency and urgency sometimes keeping me prisoner.

My son (the father of the grandson), saw an ad for spinal decompression, and he and the rest of the family encouraged and enabled me to come and give it a try. My husband kept saying, ” Honey, what good is money, if you don’t have your health?”

I contacted Dr. Nusbaum at his clinic in Richmond Hill and his assistant Rebecca set me up with an appointment right away as soon as I could get to Ontario from Saskatchewan. Dr. Nusbaum told me that he believed I had a herniated disc. The news was wonderful, sick as that sounds, because now I knew I wasn’t going crazy.� The morning after the first treatment, I noticed a change in my bowels, I didn’t believe it, I thought it must be a placebo affect, but it wasn’t, because I just got better and better.

My back is 100 percent better – after about the 4th treatment, I could stick my head under the tap to rinse my hair, PAIN FREE, I haven’t been able to do that for years. I have my life back, I have hope back. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and God Bless.

P.S. : I would be a liar if I told you I wasn’t afraid, 10 years is a long time to build up a lot of fears, but now I know the answer. There is hope and this is a new beginning. I know where you are when I need you. I can’t wait to see my little grandson and play with him for the first time with no pain.

Truly, thankfully, greatfully,

Christina G.

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