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I think I’m mad at you. Why?
That is not true. I might have called you anencephalic though. After we had that argument the other day, did you tell someone that I’m brainless? Oh! Well thank you very much!
You’re quite welcome.
© 2020 Daniel Pearson All rights reserved.
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 THE MYSTERY WORD
The Mystery Word for this issue: SCGEOUL Simply unscramble the letters, then begin exploring our ads. When you find the correctly spelled word hidden in one of our ads — enter at AugustaRx.com We’ll announce the winner in our next issue! Click on “MYSTERY WORD” • DEADLINE TO ENTER: NOON, FEB. 8, 2020
PUZZLE EXAMINER CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1. Sleep disorder 6. 1975 blockbuster 10. Fed. med. agency 13. Unambiguous 14. Hawaiian island 15. Bar intro? 16. A movie star is often one 18. _____ glass 19. Consume 20. Temple (Archaic) 21. Rugged 23. Shirts and blouses 24. Hot ______ 25. ______-Sinai 28. Furthest back 31. Music hall 32. Tantalize 33. Name for 13 popes 34. R. A. ______ Blvd. 35. Clean and treat a wound 36. Attired 37. Liberty Mutual mascot 38. What flooding rivers do 39. Plants 40. Yellow, crystalline dye 42. Half asleep 43. Thorax, in plain English 44. If you don’t care at all,
you don’t give one of these 45. Willows 47. French city on the English Channel 48. Type of mask 51. Wound reminder 52. The act of enrolling 55. Type of bloomer 56. Underwater ridge 57. It leaves the left ventricle 58. Metal-bearing mineral 59. Couch 60. Downtown building
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by Daniel R. Pearson © 2020 All rights reserved.
DOWN 1. Continuous dull pain 2. Court statement 3. Tidy 4. Type of ring 5. Poetry or sculpture, etc. 6. Augusta-born artist Jasper 7. River in central Switzerland 8. Global health org. 9. Secondary category 10. Broad Street restaurant 11. Mr. Barnard 12. Askew 15. Abyss 17. Evening song? 22. Like some steaks 23. Stretched tight 24. Famine’s ironic partner 25. Ancient manuscript in book form 26. Swelling 27. Denounce 28. AU’s Summerville Library 29. Common mall anchor 30. USA _________ 32. The ___ Affair, a diplomatic incident between the US and Britain during the Civil War 35. Items of bedroom furniture 36. It often follows blood 38. She was once married to Gregg Allman 39. ____ assault 41. Monetary unit of Botswana 42. Female deer 44. Seaport in NW Israel 45. Capital of Norway 46. Disfigure 47. Musical symbol 48. Bug 49. Greek temple doorpost 50. The state flags of California, Texas, and North Carolina each have one 53. Nazi beginning? 54. 37-A-like exticnct bird
Solution p. 14
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by Daniel R. Pearson © 2020 All rights reserved.
DIRECTIONS: Every line, vertical and horizontal, and all nine 9-square boxes must each contain the numbers 1 though 9. Solution on page 14.
QUOTATIONPUZZLE
D O R R N H U A O E W S D E O U U Y W E H S R
by Daniel R. Pearson © 2020 All rights reserved
O I P S E E O N E V W I L S W F D S S
— Annie Dillard
DIRECTIONS: Recreate a timeless nugget of wisdom by using the letters in each vertical column to fill the boxes above them. Once any letter is used, cross it out in the lower half of the puzzle. Letters may be used only once. Black squares indicate spaces between words, and words may extend onto a second line.
Solution on page 14.
Use the letters provided at bottom to create words to solve the puzzle above. All the listed letters following #1 are the first letters of the various words; the letters following #2 are the second letters of each word, and so on. Try solving words with letter clues or numbers with minimal choices listed. A sample is shown. Solution on page 14.
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ha... ha...
oe: You know that new janitor lady they hired the other day? Joe: I think I’ve seen her around. What about her?
Moe: She just asked me if I wanted to go back into the stockroom and smoke some weed with her. Joe: What did you tell her? Moe: I told her I can’t deal with high maintenance women. M
Taxi Driver: I love this job. I’m my own boss. I get to set my own hours. Nobody tells me what to do. Nobody! Fare: Turn here.
Moe: You know what the #1 use of leather is worldwide? Joe: Yes, holding cows together.
A little boy and his father visited a country store, and as they were about to leave the owner of the store offered the little boy some free candy. “Just reach in the barrel and grab a handful,” the storekeeper said to the boy.
The boy just stood there looking up at his father. The owner repeated his invitation. “Go ahead, son. It’s okay. Get a handful!”
Still the boy did not move, continuing to look up into his father’s face. Finally the father reached into the barrel and pulled out handful of candy for his son. After they left the store, the father asked his son why he didn’t take the storekeeper’s offer. “I know how much you love candy. What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, dad,” said the boy. “I just knew your hand is bigger than mine.”
Two fathers from a war-torn Middle Eastern country who haven’t seen each other for some time meet on the street one day. “How have you been?” asked the first. “Terrible,” answered his friend. “What about you? How are those two sons of yours?”
“They both became suicide bombers,” he replied.
“Kids. They blow up so fast these days,” lamented his friend.
A man realizes his eyesight has been steadily deteriorating, so he decides to see an eye doctor. He walks in and says to the receptionist, “I think I need to get my eyes checked.”
“You’re not kidding,” she says. “This is the ladies room.”
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that nine out of ten doctors agree that one out of ten doctors is an idiot. +
Because try as they might, no one can stare at their phone all day. Why subscribe to the MEDICALEXAMINER? What do you mean? Staring at my phone all day has had no Effect on ME!
The Advice Doctor ©
Dear Advice Doctor,
I’m in business with another person as equal partners, 50/50, everything right down the middle. As with most fledgling businesses, it has been a struggle. Last week, I found out that my partner has been skimming money off into his own pocket. This is a huge issue involving everything from being able to pay our bills to properly computing and paying our taxes. He claims his fraud just started and he will repay every penny. I want to believe him but my gut tells me it’s over. What do you suggest? — Feeling the Pain
+ Dear Feeling,
Times have certainly changed. You just didn’t hear certain things years ago when I was growing up.
Take your question as an example. It used to be “guts” was considered kind of a crude word. To use it in polite company would be like being at someone’s home for dinner today and asking, “Where’s the can?”
Gone are the days when the only terms used would be “digestive system” or “gastrointestinal.” These days, medical literature is full of references to gut health, like this one from Healthline: “The incredible complexity of the gut and its importance to our overall health is...” Or Time magazine’s comment about “things that will help establish a healthy gut.” Our grandmothers are spinning in their graves. But in the spirit of the times, let’s go gut and briefly review what gut health isn’t — and is. Poor gut health can be reflected in constipation, diarrhea, gas, heartburn, nausea, upset stomach, and all things digestive being something of a problem. There are other signs that would seem unrelated, like skin irritations and constant fatigue, which demonstrate the importance of seeking medical attention when there’s a problem of any kind, not just shrugging off some persistent symptom as unimportant. It might not be.
Gut health is improved by things which might not seem particularly gut-relevant, like reducing stress; getting recommended amounts of sleep; staying hydrated; and finally, eating a healthy diet, and eating it slowly and chewing thoroughly.
I hope this answers your question. Thanks for writing!
Do you have a question for The Advice Doctor about health, life, love, personal relationships, career, raising children, or any other important topic? Send it to News@AugustaRx.com. Replies will be provided only in the Examiner.
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IT’S A QUESTION OF CARE
How do I address driving safety with my aging loved one?
by Amy Hane, a licensed Master Social Worker in South Carolina and Georgia, an Advanced Professional Aging Life Care Manager and a Certified Advanced Social Work Case Manager.
Family members are often concerned about their loved ones as they age and continue to drive. This can be a concern for the aging one as well as other drivers. Depending on the relationship you have with your aging family member, you might choose one of a few options to address driving safety and whether your loved one should continue to drive.
• You may choose to tell them outright that you believe it’s unsafe and that they’re no longer going to drive. You might take the keys, or in some instances disable the car. Sometimes this works and sometimes it causes anger, but if your relationship allows it and you can stay firm in your decision because you believe it is for the best, it’s often the best path. • You might enlist the doctor to tell your loved one that he or she cannot drive and explain to them why that is the case. Perhaps the reason is poor vision, hearing loss and/or mobility issues. Sometimes it’s because they have dementia and they cannot make good judgements or might get lost. The doctor will typically write a letter, and then you can share that letter with your loved one. This becomes evidence that the doctor has ordered no driving. It can work in some cases because older persons frequently respect that what the doctor says goes no matter what. You can also utilize the services of the doctor and ask him or her to write a letter to the Department of Motor Vehicles, informing the organization that he or she
+ believes your loved one is unsafe to drive (if the doctor does truly believe that). This will begin a series of events in which your loved one will have to prove they are safe to drive.
• You can also suggest to your loved one that you believe there is are safety factors involved, and you would like them to have some testing done to determine if they should continue to drive. If they agree, you can find such testing at our larger local medical centers either through their physical therapy or occupational therapy departments. There might be in-lab testing, and there might also be behind-thewheel driving assessments. No matter your approach, the primary goal is to keep your parent/loved one safe.
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KARP… from page 8 broil and sautee instead. When you use oils for cooking or on salads, use less. Use oils that are low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fat (such as olive oil and canola oil) and polyunsaturated fat, such as soybean oil, corn oil and sunflower oil. This coconut oil fad is pretty silly. Coconut oil is extremely high in saturated fat. Also, I do want to mention something about salt. The typical American diet is way too high in salt and it comes, mainly, from pre-prepared foods and eating out too much.
+ What’s the “no-nonsense nutrition” advice for today? Don’t worry so much about the name of your diet. The Mediterranean Diet and The DASH Diet both follow very similar dietary principles. Make sure that any diet you follow is an evidenced-based diet from a peer-reviewed scientific source, not from a book, TV ad or what you came across on social media. Actually, the best advice is to eliminate the word diet from your vocabulary. Instead of diet, think of these nutrition guides as the best ways of eating and living your life, every day, for the rest of your life.
KIDNEY HEALTH… from page 9
MEDICATIONS
Not all medications are created equal when it comes to kidney health. Over the counter medications such as ibuprofen can harm kidneys when not taken correctly. If you have kidney disease or a family history of kidney disease please talk with your physician before taking laxatives and antibiotics. There a several prescription medications that can harm your kidneys and it is up to you and your physician to identify these medications and seek alternative treatments. If you are prescribed any medication for diabetes or high blood pressure that you cannot tolerate notify your physician immediately. Do not just stop taking the medication. Not managing your diabetes and high blood pressure is not an option! Work with your physician to discuss your symptoms and let the physician decide on an alternate medication, dosage, or treatment method.
Prevention is always better that treatment, and it is best to practice preventive kidney health methods versus waiting until kidney damage has already happened. Education and behavior change methods are great tools to prevent the continuous increase in end-stage renal disease. Diet, exercise, medical care, and medication management are the key focus areas to help prevent kidney disease. Through my experience as a dietitian in hospital settings and dialysis clinic settings, the methods listed above are the answer to this global public health crisis. + AUGUSTAMEDICALEXAMiNER
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