Sienna's first visit to a chiropractor. And... identity theft.

Sienna had her first visit to the chiropractor. I found one who specializes in infants. Let me just put this out there -- I am EXTREMELY skeptical of chiropractors, naturopaths, and basically all forms of alternative medicine. I come from a very traditional medical background (and my mom is a Physician's Assistant), so anything alternative is very scary to me.

That said, I'm willing to try most anything to help my kids. I am their advocates, after all. So, after much personal debate, I decided to go see a chiro about Sienna's torticollis.

And? It was actually a really good visit. I remained skeptical even as I stepped through the door of the office (which was in an old historic house, and incense was emanating out the windows -- neither of which helped my stereotypes). Then, when the doctor came down, a handsome guy with long hair (again, not helping the stereotypes), and asked me to call him by his first name, I looked to the door to see if I could still escape.

But, after about 30 minutes of chatting with him, I started to ease up. He convinced me that he would not harm my daughter. The treatment would consist mostly of massaging her muscle. He "examined" her and said her case is "moderate" and that he can feel she has a lot of little knots in her neck. Thankfully, she does not have any hip displacement.

We discussed openly the standoff between traditional medicine and chiropractors, and it helped me to be honest with him that I was very skeptical of his profession.

In the end, he recommended twice a week treatments for a few weeks and said we should see improvement. If not, he'd change the course of treatment. In very layman's terms, it seems that my PT focuses on stretching the muscle, and the chiro focuses on massaging it. (And Sienna LOVED to be massaged).

I know that only God can heal my baby girl. But, I believe with everything in me that God uses doctors of all kinds to heal. And it is my great prayer that God uses traditional and non-traditional medicine to get Sienna stronger.

IN OTHER NEWS: For the second time in my life, I've been a victim of ID theft. Thankfully (praise God!), I actually noticed it before anything happened. My bank sent me an email alert saying a new account had been added to transfer money to. Ummm... I didn't do that. So, after talking with the bank for a few hours, we figured out who the guy is ,what his account is, and that he lives in the Bronx. I plan to file a claim against him this week. He had set a new account up to transfer $750 to the next day. Thankfully, we thwarted his evil deeds.

I'm not sure exactly how he got my account number or was able to hack into it, but I suspect I didn't have the strongest or most difficult to figure out passwords. So, that has all been changed. I have to think that all of the online shopping that Tygh and I do doesn't help either. So, I also added a 90-day security alert to my credit. The next step would be to close all of our accounts and start over. That sounds like a lot of work, so I'm just monitoring our accounts, and if there is any unauthorized activity, our bank will cover it.

Sigh. Can we just get to heaven already? (PS-- If you have not read "Heaven is For Real" by Todd Burpo -- you must go out and buy it today and read it. Best book (aside from Bible) I've ever read).