Second Chances BY CAROLYN DRINKARD
Lori Bagley sits with Beth, a Katahdin ewe that she raised. Even with her balance issues, Lori found that she could handle her gentle sheep. Lori became known as a “bottle mama” after she successfully nurtured some baby lambs that had lost their mothers. Word spread quickly, and soon, sheep owners were calling her to take their orphaned lambs.
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rowing up in Sunny South, Alabama, Lori Williams Bagley loved animals. She always had dogs and cats as pets, but after she married Clint Bagley and moved to a farm in the Sandflat Community, suddenly, she had even more pets, such as cows, horses, sheep, goats and chickens. She loved her farm life, especially taking care of her many animals. In 2008, Lori Bagley was on top of the world. Happily married with two wonderful children (ages 12 and 10), she had just landed her dream job in environmental management. Lori was the picture of health, running three miles each day and enjoying life to the fullest.
One day after her daily run, she felt something like a “crick” in her neck. In severe pain, she went to a doctor, who treated her for a sinus infection. As the pain increased, however, Clint took her on to the emergency room at Springhill Hospital in Mobile. “I thought I had a brain tumor,” she explained, “but the doctors there said it was a migraine. They gave me a shot and an order to get an MRI. I took their meds, but they didn’t touch the pain.” At work Monday, Nov. 10, a friend suggested she visit a chiropractor to help her pain, so after getting the MRI at Thomasville Hospital, she visited Dr. Jerry Schreiner, a local chiropractor. While in Schreiner’s July 2021
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