Just yesterday one of Jeff's new patient couldn't make to the second day report of finding. Let's just call her Ruth. He was wondering why the patient didn't show up till her friends show up the office and told him that over the weekend, the patient jumped off the building and killed herself. Reason: the pain is too much for her to continue life.
I guess I was struck by this story as well because it is not once or twice I have heard from my patients are saying "I can't take the pain anymore, sometime I just want to kill myself and end it" I often take that as figure of speech. Come on, is the pain really that bad? Apparently yes. So many times I have heard that, till now I know at some point someone out there will take death over pain.
Everyday we are working in the office, adjusting, removing subluxation and be honest, sometime I do feel this is a just a job. But if the Ruth has known about chiropracTIC, give a little patient with the ChiropracTOR and let her body resume the ability to heal herself. Would her story end differently?
There are many chiropractic stories with happy ending; there are many out there with rather sorrow ending. If the public are aware of chiropractic and consider it as option to help themselves, can we save more Ruth out there? If we as chiropracTOR see saving others as purpose of our doings. Ain't we being saved from this material fame driven world? Rather live for higher purpose of life? So toward the end Ruth actually saved us from losing the identity of who we are really do and what we do.
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