Testimonial Speaker

As you know from previous blogs, my Mom has been going to a chiropractor since the fall of 2009, a few months before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Mom has suffered with fibromyalgia for 15 years. She was having pains in her head the past 2 years. She attended a seminar about fibromyalgia by Dr. Brian Ruocco of Power of Life Chiropractic in the fall. She received a free consultation and the rest is history! The manipulation exercises that she did was helping her head pain and body aches dramatically. Then, the breast cancer diagnosis hit in December. The chiropractic therapy changed to help enhance her immune system before her mastectomy in January. Since then, it has been more of a recovery therapy to help her recover from surgery and the 4 chemotherapy treatments. She has been a very vocal supporter for the work that Dr. Ruocco has done. She even persuaded the oncology nurse, Cindy, to go to a fibromyalgia seminar with her. Now Cindy is a patient of Dr. Ruocco! (which in itself is a huge mixing of the chiropractic world and the medicine world!).

Dr. Ruocco asked Mom if she would do a testimonial that he could use in a fibromyalgia seminar that he was doing this week. She told him that she would do better than that. She would show up and give the testimonial in person. I don't think that Mom is afraid of talking in front of people. She must have passed along that talent to me, as well. The seminar was Thursday. I asked her how it went and she just shrugged it off as something that she would do everyday. She also told me that she has been speaking up in the seminars and support groups that she goes to at the Moll Center. She talks about going to The Gathering Place and what service they have provided for her.

I'm so proud of Pauline for doing all of this. Most people who just went through chemotherapy feel self-conscious wearing hats, etc. Pauline has embraced all of the emotions that go along with recovering from chemotherapy and has channeled them to help others who are going through the same thing. This is so great. The more that she gets out there and talks to people, I think the better she will feel!