When I was young baseball was life. I spent every day at Mary Lou Patton Park. I was even there on days when I didn’t have a game. My parents were the groundskeepers at the park and I also worked as an announcer and scorekeeper. As I grew older I began to realize that playing ball and running took more of a toll on me that the other kids my age. I would always end the days complaining over just how bad my feet would ache. Finally after years of this we sought help and discovered that I had a birth defect in both of my ankles. All the individual bones of my ankles were fused together. The surgeons told me that they could fix my issue, which was such a relief to hear. I thought there was a possibility I would have to quit baseball for good, and I was only in middle school at this time. I had the surgery and it could not have went worse. Now instead of having aching feet after games, my feet felt like they were broken at all times. I had multiple surgeries to fix the mistakes made in the first one but it didn’t get much better. However I decided that baseball was too important to me to quit.

When I was playing high school ball one of our assistant coaches happened to be a chiropractor, and he offered free care to members of the team. I took him up on his offer. He adjusted my spine and began to adjust my ankles. When he did that it felt like I was able to actually move my ankles for the first time. I was because of him and his adjustments that I was able to play baseball all throughout high school with much less pain that I had ever had before.

I thought I was going to lose the thing I loved most in my life, and because of a chiropractor I didn’t have to. That is why I decided to follow in his foot steps and share this wonderful gift with as many people as I can.