A Once in a Liftime letter!

by Dr. Kevin Kulik

mailto:dockulik@yahoo.com

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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