Mary Coleman Guenther

From my experience, there are two types of doctors, one who sees possibilities, creative solutions, and is optimistic verses the limited thinking, pessimistic doctor who offers no hope. I have met many of the second type in my struggle with CRPS. I developed CRPS after returning to the gym once vaccinated in June 2021. I did the same workout as I always did before thousands of times. A week later, I was unable to walk. I developed CRPS in both feet. 

After visiting several doctors, I was left to live in incredible pain for two years although I had no other underlining conditions. Thank God I found Dr. Rozbruch. He believed in me, and offered me a solution, amputation. I had tried all sorts of types of pain management techniques including medications, blocks, meditation, massage, spinal cord stimulator, and the list goes on and on. Nothing worked. Dr. Rozbruch decided to start with my left foot.

After my amputation in July 2023, I began healing. The pain eased. I remember talking to Dr. Rozbruch about three weeks out of surgery and telling him that I was starting to have periods of no pain. He told me that mostly likely, those periods of time will increase. He was right. I have very little pain on my left foot and have been able to walk using my prosthetic on my left and the iWALK on the right. I had not stood or walked in 2 1/2 years. Not only did he rid me of my pain, but he made my leg functional again. Since amputation worked so well with my left foot, he will proceed to the right.

Dr. Rozbruch is not only healing me, but my family as well. My children have watched their fully capable mom be bedridden with pain for two years. CRPS is a cruel disease. Most doctors are afraid of it, but not Dr. Rozbruch. He believes in people and in the human spirit. He is rooting for me. Amputation is a scary thing, but I can tell you, living in constant pain with no hope is so much worse. I have scheduled the amputation for my right foot and it can't come soon enough. The debilitating pain of CRPS is unrelenting. But thanks to Dr. Rozbruch, I know there will be an end to this nightmare.