Hello All! Brigette here for an update

The continuation of Essential Chiropractic and the evolution of Structural Hygiene has gone smoothly in the first year of transition ending February 1, 2024. As many of you know, Dr. Emily and Tim purchased the practice and are doing an outstanding job running the business end of the practice. Their skills as health professionals practicing Structural Hygiene are excellent and the practice will continue another 30 years.

How am I enjoying retirement is a question many of you have so I decided to answer it here to avoid wasting time in an office visit with me which should be focused on you.

I love letting go of the admin duties and feel blessed to come in two days a week and do what I love to do: check spines and counsel people with their head on straight. What an honor!

As many retirees do, I am focusing on my health and have discovered that a cystic condition that I overcame in the year 2000 has been slowly returning for 23 years… For this reason, I don’t think the large cysts found when I requested an ultrasound in April of 2023 are malignant. I believe they are benign sequestering mucoid encapsulation of bacteria. What some people with the Paget’s disease in their lineage do as an immune response. That is farfetched for any Medical professional to wrap their head around, but I’m sticking to my story.

I have worked diligently with alternatives to the medical model to increase my vitality and detach the cysts from my organs, (mostly bowel and bladder) so that an abdominal surgery to remove them would go as smoothly as possible. I am curious and excited to overcome a serious health challenge at 64 years old because when I did it at 40 years old it made me so much smarter about how the human body is always doing its best and how we can help our bodies excel.

I will continue to update the blog so that we don’t have to discuss this on office visits.

Thank you for your attention.