Oliver Defied Every Prediction

They said he had a 20% chance of living to age one. So what happened to your son, Oliver? Oliver was born about 5 and 1/2 weeks early. Our midwife had Kristina really wait a long time before she kind of gave her the green light to push. Kristina delivered him on all fours, and on the second push, he shot out like a rocket. I watched my son go, not be caught, head and neck flexed onto the bed. The first thing I did is put him on all fours, umbilical cord still attached so he could be still getting that, you know, oxygen and everything from Kristina, and I made his first adjustment. But that still looked like the amount of force you could check an avocado. Now, we know neurology, right? We know how the nervous system works, so I knew that I needed to go to his upper thoracics because that's where the respiratory system is. I actually needed to kick that in and get that going, then we went to the upper cervical and worked on that. There was a helicopter ride from one hospital to another. They thought, hey, we'll give him some oxygen and he'll be okay. He crashed fully in that first hospital. Wow. So they transferred him to Lutheran General in Chicago, and they literally did heart-lung bypass. I mean, I watched medical miracles. They put a catheter in his jugular and his carotid. They saved him. They said he had a 20% chance of living to age one and if he did, a 99% chance epilepsy, autism, cerebral palsy. And they only said 99, brother, because it would have sounded quite harsh to say 100 out loud. So all the things that I had built my clinic specializing in, here I was sitting across from Stanford- and Harvard-trained neurologist telling me my son's guaranteed to have that outcome. And he didn't.