Twice now my reviews of Advanced Wellness Center have been reported by the "Yelp Community" and removed with the recommendation to speak of my personal experience. While from my perspective my reviews did, in fact, speak of my personal experience, I can also recognize this as an opportunity to heal. I have yet another opportunity to practice talking about the abuse I endured while I was a patient under the care of Bradley Troy Walker, and Heather Peery Walker.
I can't help but see the irony of this process. While I was a patient at AWC, I was mistreated in many ways during extended periods of time. I tried on multiple occasions to very compassionately voice this as a very real problem that was affecting me greatly. There was no room for my voice to be heard.
Each time, what I had to say would get glossed over, shut down, attention would be re-directed, or the story would be re-written so that it came across that I had done something wrong. The story changed enough that any complaints I had were not valid and the only reason I had a problem was because there was actually something wrong with me.
This is not okay in normal everyday social dynamics that you encounter in the world. When they enter a space being run by people who are licensed doctors, however, you get into an escalated level of what is considered okay versus not okay. There are reasons the profession comes bounded to specific laws of ethics. People can get into very vulnerable situations where they have no choice but to trust and rely on their healthcare providers. After everything I have been through, and after enduring the abuse of the Walkers, I understand this very well.
The space allotted within a Yelp review is not nearly enough to really speak of the extent of my personal experience. Things got BAD. ONE example is that Troy turned me away when I was having severe muscle spasms. He said he couldn't help me because it was "me" and I was an emotional person.
This was at a time when I had x-rays from Urgent Care and I was recovering from PTSD.
He told me that I needed to go see my general MD before I could get in to see him, which meant that for weeks I went without chiropractic care while I was dealing with a crisis situation.
When I did finally get back into the office he gave me a "test" while I was on the table. Apparently I passed because I identified the psoas muscle while lifting my leg. He said "That's how I know that someone isn't faking".
My first thought was - "My x-rays weren't enough?"
But really, I shouldn't have even needed that. My voice wasn't enough?
This brings me back to why it is so ironic that my two previous Yelp reviews have been removed.
Yes, they were negative reviews; so was my experience. My reviews are a reflection of my voice. My voice has been ignored by the Walkers for years now. I have tried compassion, poetry, bluntness, tenacity, descriptive analogies; any type of phrasing or paraphrasing you can think of, I have tried it.
I have tried so hard to find a way that my voice will be heard by the Walkers. It's one thing if they want to isolate themselves and privately live out their lives in a chosen state of deafness; but when you open a business called Advanced Wellness Center, you are responsible for handling your own issues and making whatever changes are necessary so that you don't have the need to isolate certain people and treat them poorly. I don't want anyone else, ever, to endure the same side of the Walkers that has caused me so much damage and created such a negative experience that ultimately turned into an inescapable living nightmare.
My personal experience of Advanced Wellness Center was negative.
My personal experience of Bradley Troy Walker, DC#3427 was negative.
My personal experience of Heather Elizabeth Peery Walker, DC#3428 was negative.
And I haven't even started talking about my negative experience with Heather.
I will say this. Heather is someone on this planet that has made me dig DEEP into finding a reason I can call her my sister. I honestly believe that the problems I had with Troy would not have happened if she wasn't involved in the bigger picture. He got crazy because she is crazy. She cannot be the person that she publicly strives to be without accepting responsibility for herself. And Troy continuously enables her. He is, quite ironically, the spineless chiropractor.
As for my personal experience, it is a work in progress. My responsibility in the situation was that before even meeting the Walkers, I set myself up in a vulnerable enough place where their abuse had the opportunity to cause so much damage. I understand that now and that is why I can't let my story fade into forced silence. Part of my personal wellness plan is to continue to use my voice. Someone, somewhere, someday, someway, will hear me. And even if they don't within my lifetime, the strength of my voice will continue to grow.
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