Massage Therapy

Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!  I certainly did, with a nice week off of work and (obviously) a week off from blogging… sorry about that!  I skipped Guilt-Free Friday and everything!  I've been really really bad over the holidays though, so I honestly don't have a guilt-free food to share, but I do have some more great information about digestive health and healthy eating choices to share with you for a future post.  I’ve got lots of other ideas for more posts too so I’m excited to jump back into researching and doing your homework for you so we can all be healthier together!

But, as promised, I’m continuing on from my last post about chiropracticcare and sharing with you why massage therapy is so beneficial to your health as well!  And I’m not just trying to get you to come see me, although I wouldn’t complain if you gave me a call :), but I genuinely want you to know how good it is for you, no matter who you choose to see!

I love love love my profession.  Being as passionate as I am about natural healthcare, that’s exactly why I went this route for a career choice.  Massage therapy is an incredibly beneficial natural healthcare option.  It’s great for both healing preexisting ailments and it’s great preventive care too.

I’ve had a couple of people ask, when making their appointment, if I do nails or offer spa packages.  Ooohhh those comments make my blood boil… haha fortunately I don’t get asked that very often.  I DID NOT get into this field for frou-frou reasons or to give you a day at the spa.  I DO intend to give you a relaxing experience and I hope I help relieve a lot of your stress, as stress relief alone has incredible health benefits (more about that shortly), but I got into this field for the betterment of your health, period.  Let me share with you just how good a massage is for your wellbeing!

As you probably know, massage involves manual manipulation of the soft tissues – muscles – to work out tension and adhesions and ease the pain cause by it, and to improve or increase circulation.  To follow up from my last post about chiropractic care, loosening up those muscles around your spine is hugely beneficial for an adjustment.  Equally so, it’s helpful for stiff joints or “pinched” nerves that pass through muscle groups, like the sciatic nerve for instance, which most commonly gets “pinched” by the piriformis muscle in the hip joint.

By working out muscle tension, massage therapy can also improve or increase range of motion in a joint (which is great for athletes!); boost your immune system by stimulating your lymph flow; ease the pain of stiff, weak, or tight muscles and help them heal; assist you in your regular exercise routine; improve your skin; help with the healing process of scar tissues and stretch marks; reduce cramping or spasms (charlie horses); relax overworked muscles (definitely great if you’ve got a job that requires hard manual labor!); relieve headaches and migraines; and, like I said in the last paragraph, increase circulation which helps your blood bring oxygen and nutrients to your muscles and organs.

But let me get back to the stress relief thing mentioned earlier.  Not many people realize what kind of a toll stress takes on your body.  Sure you FEEL it after a hard day at work, after dealing with difficult people, your children misbehaving, or difficult life situations like loss or financial problems or troubled relationships.  But what exactly is going on in your body when you’re under stress?  When your body goes into fight or flight mode, which is the state you’re in under ANY kind of stressful situation from being stuck in traffic to being chased by a bear (let’s hope that’s not all that common for you though…), the hormone cortisol is released into your blood stream, which is pretty demanding on your body preparing your to fight or flee, depending on the situation.  Your sympathetic nervous system is activated, and your brain directs energy and blood flow to areas of your body that you need to handle stressful situations, and therefore deactivating your parasympathetic nervous system, which is what handles things such as digestion and elimination.  The less stress you’re under, the better your body’s systems and organs are able to function.  And one great way to reduce stress is to, you guessed it, get a massage!  Taking that hour to just lie down, listen to peaceful music, and get your muscular tension worked out definitely allows your parasympathetic nervous system to get back in gear and take care of things internally, and gives your mind and muscles a chance to rest and rejuvenate.  Reducing stress has a lot of great benefits, such as helping your digestive system to work better (which helps with weight loss, and who doesn’t want that??) and boosting your immune system to better ward off illness and disease.  You sleep better, your anxiety levels are lower, your concentration is stronger, and your energy levels are higher.  Win!

There are so many ways massage therapy can help you, and I’ve been very fortunate to have great success with easing so many people’s ailments like rotator cuff restriction, scoliosis, sciatica, plantar fasciitis, TMJ syndrome (tightness and restriction in your jaw), headaches, and just plain ol’ stress.  One of my favorite successes has been being able to help people get away from using pain medications, which can have detrimental effects on your body in the long run and can really put stress on your organs.

It’s been a very rewarding career so far, and I’m so happy to be able to help ease people’s pain in such a non-invasive way.  You really can’t beat taking a break from life and relaxing while doing something so healing for your body at the same time!

Guilt-Free... Sunday? Muffaletta Pinwheels

Here I go again, dropping the ball!  Only I REALLY dropped it this time, not getting around to posting a recipe until SUNDAY!  Sorry everyone!  Especially since this time I'm posting an awesome finger food for gatherings or family functions.  I'm sure you all have some sort of gathering, and you're probably at it right now, wishing you had brought an awesome finger food to "wow" the guests.  If only Jami hadn't dropped the ball.  Again, sorry!  There's still tomorrow and Christmas day, you still have time!

I don't know if this can be classified as "guilt-free", although I'm sure you could make a few alterations to make it fit the bill.  But it's not entirely bad for you - it could be way worse.  And it's soooooooooooooo gooooooooooooood.

Seriously.

Like, my favorite thing about this recipe is that it creates scraps on the ends when you're cutting the pinwheels, and someone has to eat them, because they're not pretty enough to serve... So I end up stuffing myself with the end scraps, or Justin and I end up fighting over who gets the last one...

This is based off of the New Orleans sandwich, the muffaletta, which I thought I wouldn't like since it has black and green olives on it, and I really don't care for olives, but wow is that a good sandwich.  The pinwheel is a variation of it - same ingredients, minus the bread (obviously) and adding cream cheese.  Everyone who's eaten these and normally doesn't care for olives either agreed that they're pretty awesome.  So if you don't like olives either, don't worry, I'm sure you won't be sorry if you make these.

I'm also going to include some good tips for making pinwheels, since I was once pinwheel-challenged and I've gained a bit of confidence now (mainly because I've made like a thousand of these...).  They're tricky little guys...

One of the best tips is remembering to keep it thin.  Spread thin layers, thin sliced meats and cheese, thin thin thin.  Once you roll it you've got all those thin layers working together to make a perfect combination of flavor, and it's waaaaay easier and less messy to roll them when everything's in thin layers, too.

Alright, here we go!

Muffaletta Pinwheels

8 flour tortillas

2 8oz packages cream cheese, softened
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 tsp oregano

1 4.25oz can chopped black olives
~3/4 10oz jar green olives, chopped (I fail to measure things so I'm giving you my closest guess)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tsp oregano
2 tsp Italian seasoning
2 tbsp olive oil

32 thin slices salami
32 thin slices ham
16 thin slices provelone cheese

• Combine the cream cheese, garlic powder, onion powder, and oregano.  This will give you a great forearm workout if you do it by hand! :-P
• Chop the green olives (I wish they came chopped like black olives do, but I've not been able to find that option...) and open the can of black olives.  Seriously the chopped black olives are so gross looking... bleh.  This is not the most appetizing part of the process.  Please don't loose faith!
• Mix the olives, parmesan cheese, oregano and Italian seasoning, and olive oil in a separate bowl.

• Spread some of the cream cheese mixture on a tortilla (remember, you're making 8 of these, so make sure you save enough!).  And keep it thin!  You'll be thanking yourself when it comes time to roll!
• Spread an eighth of the olive mixture on the cream cheese spread.  Here's another tip: only spread the olive mixture on a little more than 3/4 of the tortilla - leave an inch or two as open cream cheese on the bottom.  This makes rolling easier, too.

•  Place four slices of ham on top of the olive mixture, again leaving space at the bottom.  I hope you had your deli slice them thin!!
• Place four slices of salami on top of the ham.
• Place two slices of provelone cheese on top of the salami.  I tore one slice in half and placed it on either side of a whole slice - it fit on the tortilla easier.  See the picture for a visual:

• Now roll.  Start on the end that has all the goodies on it and roll toward the end that you left empty.  Roll TIGHT.  Once you start rolling, all your goodies are going to start to squeeze down toward the empty end, and you'll be glad you didn't put any ingredients down there or they'll all be oozing out the end!

• Wrap your muffaletta burrito (what a nice joining of cultures!) in plastic wrap and put in the fridge for an hour or so.

• Slice at 45 degree angles and serve!  And enjoy those end scraps as you go, provided no family members are lurking waiting to steal them from you! 

Now, off to the Heidel family Christmas party!  Hope you all enjoy the holidays!!

Chiropractic Care

As soon as we left the hospital with Harlee, we didn’t go home.  No, we went to the chiropractor to get him adjusted.  After all the stress his head and neck was under during his 48 hours of labor, I definitely wanted to make sure nothing was thrown out of whack.

In my profession as a massage therapist, I’ve met a lot of people who either have no clue how beneficial chiropractic care is, or see a chiropractor as regularly as they see me.  This post is dedicated to the people who are missing out on chiropractic care.

This post also continues last week’s story about Harlee’s fever episode.  So, picking up where I left off, it was day three and his fever was back up again, and he was still droopy, lethargic, not eating, didn’t even seem to have the energy to cry.  It was the saddest thing I’ve ever seen… He’d been off-balance when walking for several weeks too, which concerned me that something was wrong with his ears, and ear issues can cause a runny nose, which he’d had for a LONG time too, and probably his weakened immune system and inability to keep his fever down.  That’s just my speculation though.  That prompted me to see the chiropractor in Waterloo that specializes in children and babies.  I know earaches are a very common result of a misalignment in the neck, so that’s something I wanted to get checked out anyway.  I called and set up an appointment for noon, and then called his pediatrician and got him in at 1:00.

Dr. Stratton was wonderful, very knowledgeable and very confident, and definitely right up my alley when it comes to natural health!  Although, most chiropractors are… She looked in his ears and noticed a lot of fluid backed up in his right ear, and then found a misalignment in his very top vertebra right below his skull, which can lead to ear issues (just as I suspected).  There was also another misalignment in his mid back, and his pelvis was a little out of place too (to which she asked if he’d been pooping regularly, which no, he hadn’t).  The adjustment was gentle, quick, simple, and then off we went to the doctor.

He slept on the way there.  When we got to the office he woke up, and, ta da!  Harlee was back!  It was CRAZY, let me tell you!!  He walked over to the play area in the waiting room (he hadn’t walked since Monday morning and this was Wednesday), he played, babbled (another thing we hadn’t heard since Monday), and wanted to snack on everything we had in the diaper bag!  When we were called back, his temperature was down to 98.3, and when the doctor looked in his ears he didn’t see any fluid issues at all!  Oh my gosh.  Why didn’t we take him to Dr. Stratton sooner??  Of course, go figure we schedule him with the pediatrician because of a high fever and lack of energy (and ear issues, too) and he’s all better when we get there.  That’s how it works, right?  I didn’t care, honestly, I was so glad he was better and so excited about the results we got from the chiropractor!

So, how does a chiropractic adjustment make everything all better like that?  Let me tell you all about it!  It’s all about the nervous system, which is housed in, not only your head, but your spine as well.  Your spinal cord connects directly to your brain, and transports your brain’s messages to your entire body through the spinal nerves that travel out between each spinal vertebra.  Your vertebrae can become out of alignment though due to anything in daily activity, especially accidents from tripping or stumbling to getting rear-ended in the car.  Sports activities can cause these misalignments, or subluxations, like taking a soccer ball to the head or especially getting tackled in football.  Subluxations can range from a fraction out of alignment to waaay out of alignment.  When a vertebra is out of place, it creates pressure on those spinal nerves, thus cutting off the messages the brain is trying to send through those nerves to different parts of your body.  Yikes!  Think about that – these nerves aren’t just supplying your muscles and causing you pain or tingling or numbness if there’s interference (which sucks in and of itself), these nerves are also supplying your ORGANS.  What’s going to happen to your liver if it’s not receiving all of the brain’s messages to clean out your blood?  What’s going to happen to your pancreas if it’s not receiving all of the brain’s messages to regulate blood sugar?  What about your stomach?  Your lungs?  Your heart?  What’s going to happen to your BODY if these organs aren’t working right?  This is where disease starts to form.  If the brain can’t get all of its messages to the organ, how do you expect that organ to function properly?

Some chiropractors believe that ALL disease is caused by nerve interference in the spine.  In my personal opinion I’m not sure about ALL of it, as certainly outside factors influence health as well, such as diet or toxins in the air or surfaces we come in contact with.  But I do believe that good spinal maintenance can help your body fight off infections or ailments brought on by poor diet or toxic environments.  The nervous system does control the immune system too, after all!

Also, as in my recent experience with Harlee, chiropractic care is great for ear issues – whether a minor ache or an infection – as good spinal alignment in the neck allows the ears to drain properly, thus preventing fluid build-up that can cause a bad sense of balance, like Harlee was experiencing, and can lead to earaches and infections.  So, before you rush to get tubes surgically inserted into your child’s ear drum (while under general anesthesia, yikes!), maybe make sure his or her neck is in proper alignment first.  That’s a much nicer, and much quicker and easier fix than surgery, don’t ya think?

Many chiropractors are different, as I’ve found – some believe solely in a hands-on approach and don’t believe in tools or machines, and some are the exact opposite.  Some take x-rays, some don’t.  Some offer multiple bodywork techniques in with their adjustments, including acupuncture or shiatsu.  I think they’re all beneficial – as chiropractors all have different approaches, there are many different people in the world that benefit from different kinds of healing techniques.  I personally like when different methods are used to loosen up the muscles surrounding the spine before an adjustment, but that’s because of my massage therapy background and it just makes sense to me.  Everyone is different, but ultimately you’re getting the same end result – the spine being put back into proper alignment so the nervous system can function at its peak.

The benefits of chiropractic care are endless.  It can both help fix an existing issue or prevent issues from happening in the first place.  It’s like a natural vaccine, putting the body in proper working condition to have the strength and power to fight off infections and illnesses on its own!  Sign me up!

Geez, why didn’t I just become a chiropractor?  Well, simply put, I was just more drawn to massage therapy.  And it absolutely has its benefits, and many of them!  It goes hand-in-hand with chiropractic care, too.  As a friend of mine in the massage field described, getting adjusted by a chiropractor brings you into a place of great health, but to get there you first have to go through the gates, which are the muscles.  You’re not going to get very far if the gates are locked!

Enter massage therapy, which is a topic for another post :).

Hope everyone is having a wonderful December!

My Thoughts on Today's Tragedy, and Guilt-Free Friday: Peanut Butter Cookies

I am dropping the ball!  Yikes!  I had a busy day today and for the first time didn’t have a post prepared ahead of time to publish today.  Sorry if I kept everyone waiting for a yummy cookie recipe and wound up disappointing you!  This recipe won’t disappoint though, I promise!  Unfortunately it’s not COMPLETELY guilt-free.  If you’re a diabetic, you’re in luck!  But if you’re counting calories… we might have a little work to do to alter this recipe further to make it TRULY guilt-free.  But rather than the empty calories of refined cane sugar, this recipe uses a healthier alternative: coconut palm sugar.

Unlike cane sugar, palm sugar is lower on the glycemic index, meaning it has less of an impact on blood sugar, making it a safe choice for diabetics and people watching carbs.  Unfortunately, though, it is about equal in calories to cane sugar.  But, like all things that contain ANY kind of sugar, you should probably eat it in moderation anyway…

Another nice thing about palm sugar is that it really is a “healthier” alternative.  It offers several micronutrients such as potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and vitamin C, which white cane sugar pretty much offers nothing…

For more information, here are a couple good articles:

http://summertomato.com/is-coconut-palm-sugar-a-healthy-sugar-substitute/

http://www.naturalnews.com/028996_palm_sugar_natural_sweetener.html

I think I’m going to take a brief pause in the recipe part of this post and just say that my heart breaks for the victims of the shooting today in Connecticut.  I usually don’t voice my opinion in these circumstances, and rather just have my own “moment of silence” as the grieving period runs its natural course, but I read NBC New’s article and something struck a chord with me.  Amidst all the ranting on Facebook and others’ blogs about better gun control and parents wanting to home school their kids now because of this, I was thinking about the shooter, and what must be so wrong with a person to be driven to do something like this.  I read in the article that the shooter was identified as Adam Lanza, who killed himself after the attack.  His brother, Ryan, was questioned by authorities. “Ryan told police that Adam has a history of mental illness…”

As I recover from postpartum depression and PTSD, I now have a clearer awareness of how important mental healthcare is.  I know uncontrollable anger and how scary it is to feel that way.  I know resentment.  I know worthlessness.  And fortunately, I know the light at the end of the tunnel.  I know how beneficial it is to get good, clean help.  To talk to a professional.  To help the body and mind heal by making healthier lifestyle choices.  I know how good the recovery feels.  But, unfortunately, there are a lot of people who don’t know the beauty of recovery.  Our country is very lacking in this area of healthcare, I believe.  It’s not the gun regulations that are the problem here – it’s the idiots using them.  And most of the time, that “idiot” has some sort of mental disease or illness or condition.  Maybe they were born with it, in which case they should have gotten proper help a long time ago.  Or maybe it was the side-effect of a drug they’ve been on previously (I’m not going to get into it now, but there are a LOT of common pharmaceuticals out there that have side effects that can severely alter the mental state of the one taking the drug, causing, for example, hallucinations, thoughts of suicide, behavioral or mood changes, etc.  Some of these may sound familiar to you from the fast-talking side-effects list in the commercials you commonly see for different drugs… they do to me anyway…).  Either way, obviously proper care for these people is lacking.  Maybe if this guy had gotten better care sooner, he may have been in a healthier mental state and it would have never crossed his mind or heart to do something so terrible as what he did this morning.  I don’t know, I’m no expert, but it seems silly to blame gun regulations for a person’s actions.  There are still going to be mentally unstable people in this world whether guns are controlled or not, and if there is that much anger or insanity inside of them, they’ll find a way to let it out.  We all need to take better care of ourselves, and show better care for the people who are trapped and suffering inside their own minds and bodies, before more crap like this happens.

Done.

So back to those cookies.  I’m glad cookies are a happy subject, hopefully these will shed a little ray of sunshine through a very sad day.  And I hope you try them too!  They’re super easy, since you don’t have to have any of my weird flours on hand to make it, and REALLY really good.  White sugar and palm sugar are interchangeable too, so you can use equal amounts to substitute.  So if you don’t want to bother with palm sugar, you can still use a cup of cane sugar in this recipe without any issues.  Oh, by the way, I originally found this gluten-free, 5-ingredient recipe from the site Shockingly Delicious.  It does call for white sugar, though, so I switched it all up.  Below is my altered recipe.  Enjoy!

 Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

• 1 egg
• 1 cup organic coconut palm sugar
• 1 cup all-natural, no sugar added peanut butter
• 2 tbsp stevia (I added this to add back some sugary-sweetness, which is lost by using all-natural peanut butter, and to balance the richer, darker, caramel/maple flavor of the palm sugar)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Place parchment paper on a baking sheet and set sheet aside.
2. Using electric mixer, blend all ingredients together until a soft dough forms.
3. Use a cookie scoop or spoon to portion tablespoon-sized balls of dough, and place them on parchment-lined baking sheet. Press top of each cookie with fork tines twice crosswise to form that “peanut shell” crosshatch pattern.
4. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on baking pan at least 5 minutes (they are fragile until cooled). Remove to a rack and cool completely.
5. Store in an airtight container.
6. Makes 32 cookies about 2 1/2 inches in diameter each

Fevers

Today I’m going to talk about fevers, but first, story time!

So last week (which is a couple weeks ago now, but when I wrote this it was last week - I'm an over-achiever and like to have about three or four topics written about before I post them!) Harlee caught a bug.  He’s been playing around a lot of other kids lately, and, well, ‘tis the season to catch and share bugs.  He was down and out with a fever for almost three days.  It started on a Monday, around 99.7ish, but he was playing and eating and I chalked it up to teething.  Until late afternoon and he petered out and all he wanted to do was lay around.  Not really his nature…  The next day was the same – not interested in eating, just wanted to sleep all day.  Poor guy :(.  He reached 101.4 or so, and with a little help from homeopathic Ferrum Phos. his fever dropped back down to the 99 range.  But by evening he hit 102.8 in the armpit and was roasting.  I was constantly texting my friend who’s also knowledgeable about a pro-natural lifestyle (it’s nice to have someone you trust for feedback and a sounding board – when it’s your own kid that’s having the trouble you’re not actually in the best frame of mind for decision-making… I’m not, anyway!).  And we broke the seal on the fever-reducer medicine and gave Harlee a drug for the first time…  I of course stuck with natural remedies as well – following my friend’s advice (which also helped jog my memory) of applying lavender oil to his feet, which can help bring down a fever as it has a naturally cooling effect on the body, and I diffused Thieves oil in the air.  I also kept up the Ferrum Phos.  I didn’t get much sleep that night, constantly checking on him… fortunately his fever went back down to the lower end of 101, but the next morning it was up again.

So, let me explain a little something about fevers.  They’re a good thing.  They make us parents freak out a little bit, but they’re a good thing.  98.6 degrees is the standard normal body temperature, as I hope you all know, but fevers up to 100.4 in a 3 month old or up to 102.2 up to 3 years old isn’t really anything to worry about (obviously keep an eye on it, and do check with your doctor for added comfort) as it’s your body’s way of fighting bacterial infections (bacteria can’t live in such high heat).  Administering fever-reducing medications, which prevent your body from producing antibodies, can actually drag on the infection up to 50% longer than it should have been there in the first place.  So don’t rush to the drug store so quickly if the fever is low-grade!  The body knows what it’s doing!  Resting and drinking plenty of liquids is the best thing for you when experiencing a fever, for any age!  Avoiding sugar is good too, as sugar can suppress the immune system.

Some natural fever-reducing tips, aside from Lavender oil, as I mentioned above, and Ferrum Phos (also mentioned above) are as follows:

Peppermint oil applied to the soles of the feet or sprayed on the back of the neck, as it has a cooling effect on the body like lavender.  Other oils that have a cooling effect on the body are chamomile, eucalyptus, basil, and bergamot.

Some homeopathic remedies include Aconite, Belladonna, and Ferrum Phos, all found in Hyland’s Homeopathy Kid’s Kid.  Aconite is best if some of your symptoms or traits include anxiety, restlessness, fear, or a sudden onset of a fever that includes hot, dry, flushed skin.  Belladonna may be useful if symptoms are violent like thrashing or tossing, restless, also sleepy but can’t sleep, and the fever includes flushed, hot dry skin and red face.  Ferrum Phosphoricum (or Ferrum Phos) is good for early stages of an illness and for fever with a gradual onset, pale skin with rosy cheeks, and can include cough or earache or sore throat.  This seemed like the best match for Harlee, and did help for awhile as I mentioned above.

Some herbs that are helpful include lemon balm leaf, chamomile flower, peppermint leaf, licorice root, and elderflower, which can be brewed into a tea, but that’s recommended for children that are over 2 years old.  A green tea supplement is great too, as green tea includes L-theanine and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), which are excellent immune system boosters and thus fever reducers.

Trying a lukewarm bath might also be beneficial, making the water about two degrees cooler than your child’s (or your own) body.  Constantly keep water flowing over the skin, either by sponging it on or pouring it, but if shivering begins then get out and get under the covers!

Don’t keep too many clothes on either, as they just trap the heat inside and can cause the fever to rise even higher.  Cover up with just a sheet, too, and maybe turn down the room’s temperature a few degrees cooler.

Some weird tips – slice potatoes or onions, place on the bottoms of the feet and secure with socks, and keep them there overnight.  I actually tried the potato thing… I can’t say I saw any results, but I’ve read that some people swear by this method!  Certainly doesn’t hurt to try it though!  If any of you reading this try that or have tried it, post about it and let me know!

I know I don’t care for doctors, but in the case of fevers sometimes you don’t want to mess around, as too high of a fever can cause febrile seizures or brain damage (usually above 106 degrees F).  If the fever is hovering in the safe zone, though, try some of these tips before rushing to use something you got from the drug store.  Like I said, that usually causes more harm than good!  And, if the fever is low-grade, just let it be.  It’s just the body’s natural defense mechanism kicking into action to fight off an infection, and allowing the body to do its job is the best thing for it!  Just drink water and sleep :).

When we woke up the next morning to find that Harlee’s fever wasn’t going anywhere, and still hovering in the upper part of 102 degrees, the first thing I did was call a chiropractor in Waterloo who specializes in children and babies and scheduled him in with her, and the second thing I did was call his pediatrician to get him in right after the chiropractor.

Wait, why in the heck would I call a chiropractor before a doctor??

Ah, hold tight until the next post, and I’ll tell you about the wonders of chiropractic care :).  It’s a great story.  And Harlee is doing better than before now!

Information taken from

http://www.naturalnews.com/031467_fevers_health.html

http://www.livestrong.com/article/93994-home-remedies-reduce-childs-fever/