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Location: Massapequa, NY 516 454 0400, United States

is a Chiropractor and Clinical Nutritionist in Massapequa Long Island. His encounter with God through his meeting with Mother Teresa early in his career set the tone for the kind of practice he would pursue. While blessing his hands she requested that each person he layed his hands on would be seen by him as if they were Christ. This has been a great challenge to say the least!; however as a result he attempts to bring that spirit to ordinary everyday folks while treating their pains and their illnesses. To see more of Dr K's activities and healing approach click Dr. Kevin Kulik above and go to his website @ Dockulik.com

Saturday

A Once in a Liftime letter!

by Dr. Kevin Kulik

As a Doctor, I receive many letters
from patients that affect me deeply,
but a number of years ago I received a letter
that completely changed my life!


Dear Kevin, Margaret said,
I don't know where to begin...

She thought she had the flu and saw her doctor.
She was told that she had a bad case of the German measles
but there was one problem.
She was also pregnant.

She was told that the German measles or rubella
in the early stages of pregnancy
can increase the chances of birth defects
sometimes by up to 90%!
(fetuses who are infected with rubella during the first twenty weeks
of pregnancy develop what's called congenital rubella syndrome)

The picture was very bleak
and the Dr. immediately recommended
an abortion.

The poor woman now in tears
looked at the Dr. and said

"but I want my baby!"

The Dr. persisted in describing the hopeless and dark picture
that was ahead of her if she did not trust his medical advise.
She looked at him again and said

" I'll put my trust in God!"

She tried to block out those terrible words
that kept ringing through her frightened mind
deafness,
blindness,
encephalitis,
growth defects,
neurological disorders,
mental retardation,
miscarriage,
stillbirth

For almost 9 months
she would awake night after night
sweating and screaming
as her husband tried to console her
from her nightmares.

With baited breath
Margaret went into labor
and was rushed to the hospital.
The child was born miraculously healthy,
with the exception of a chest cavity deformity.
The relieved but nervous doctor
tried to break the tension with a joke by saying
"so, the kid won't be the
best lookin kid on the beach!"
In what seemed to feel like less than a season,
18 years came and went for this mother and her child.
Some might say that it was the end of one life,
others say it was the beginning of another.
I was told that somewhere between
highschool and college,
children flounder between
the holding on of youthful innocence,
and the falling from God's holy grace.
It is a time when there are difficult choices to be made.
Choices of worldly pleasures,
or
choices to follow the faith
passed on by our
mothers and our fathers before us.
In any event
God gives each of us
"the right to choose"
right or wrong
prior,
to making both good decisions,
and terrible mistakes.

This child would have made many
poor and potentially deadly choices,
if it were not for a
" letter"
written at this most reckless age.

You see, I received this letter in 1973
when the killing of babies
was just made legal in the United States.
Drugs, sex, and rock n roll
was the homily that society
was preaching from her pulpits.
But because of this simple letter,
"a new wind"
blew into the sails
of that developing and curious child
and corrected it's course.
If this letter seems a bit mysterious,
let me make it perfectly clear,
this letter and all that is contained within it,
is about none other than your humble author....
...me; Kev

For I am the broken fetus
fixed by faith and love
after the world said to "throw it away!"
I am the deformed fetus
who's congenital defects
were completely healed before
"this kid ever even hit the beach!"
I am the blind fetus,
who's mother patiently waited 18 years
in order to mail this timely letter;
so that God could give sight to a child
she had only briefly borrowed.
I am the mentally retarded fetus
who went on to become a doctor,
to call others to healing and life
in this culture of death.

Finally, I am the stillborn fetus
that has given life to children of my very own now,
so I might share this wonderful letter
of my mom, with them ...
... and with you!



Dr Kevin Kulik practices on Long Island NY.

It is his hope and prayer to inspire the Catholic Chiropractor to

"Be Christ" to their patients by his stories.

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