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Vol. 17, No. 32

November 25, 2021

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Pedestrian killed in motor vehicle crash Suffolk County Police 6th Squad detectives are investigating a single-vehicle crash that killed a pedestrian in Selden on Monday afternoon.

Dennis Candelario was driving a 2012 Dodge Durango eastbound in the left turning lane of Middle Country Road, near Magnolia Place, when the vehicle struck an elderly woman who was standing in the road at 4:58

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On Friday, Nov. 19, state Senator Mario Mattera (R-St. James), New York State Assemblyman Doug Smith (R- Holbrook) and Suffolk County Legislator Nick Caracappa (R-Selden) joined together to host a special Long Island Job Fair at Suffolk County Community College.

From 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. people from across the county visited the Babylon Student Center and spoke with representatives from dozens of different employers face-to-face.

Booths adorned names from all categories of jobs such as the U.S Army, Sportime Tennis Academy, and even Finishing Trades Institute of NY, Painters & Allied Trades.

Representatives were able to answer questions to interested visitors, in hopes that it would spark an interest.

The atmosphere was energetic, and the stream of potential employees didn’t cease until the job fair was close to ending.

According to Mattera, the job fair was for those who lost their jobs from the recent government mandates, the COVID-19 pandemic and to help boost the economy.

“Without labor, our economy fails,” he said.

“Our goal here is to make sure they, especially the people who lost their jobs, come here and

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The woman, who has yet to be identified by police, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Candelario, 51, of Selden, and his passenger were not injured.

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Town of Brookhaven hosts 12th annual Polar Plunge

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Freezin’ for a reason.

The Town of Brookhaven held its 12th annual Polar Plunge at Cedar Beach this past weekend, where 544 people stripped down and hit the chilled water of the Long Island Sound all for a good cause.

On Saturday, Nov. 20, volunteers gathered at the beach in their swimsuits and shorts to benefit the Special Olympics which raises funds and awareness for Special Olympics New York athletes in the Long Island region. This year a collective $131,033 was raised.

“The Polar Plunge is a great opportunity for the community to make a difference in the

lives of the Special Olympics athletes,” said Supervisor Ed Romaine (R). “I thank all the volunteers, Town employees, police, fire and ambulance staff who work so hard to support the Special Olympics athletes every year.”

Special Olympics New York is the largest state chapter in the country, serving more than 51,000 registered athletes and unified partners across New York with year-round sports training, athletic competition and health screenings.

The organization also partners with about 250 schools statewide to offer Unified Sports, where students with and without disabilities compete as teammates. All Special Olympics New York programs are offered at no cost to athletes, their families and caregivers.

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State

LI nurses see Gov. Hochul’s scholarships as important first step

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM In the wake of an expected nursing shortage and amid an uncertain battle against a pandemic that is well into its second year, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced a scholarship program to support future nurses last week.

The program, called Nurses for Our Future Scholarship, will cover tuition for 1,000 health care workers to get their Resident Nursing degrees at State University of New York and the City University of New York colleges.

The governor announced that the scholarships were designed to address the shortage in health care and a lack of workers in hospitals across the state.

In a statement, Gov. Hochul called the scholarships an “important step to train more nurses and bring them into our health care system.” She added that the pandemic has “shown us that we cannot afford a labor shortage in the health care industry.”

Nursing officers at area hospitals applauded the announcement and suggested it was an important first step in confronting some of the challenges the nursing community faces.

“I was thrilled” with the announcement, said Susan Knoepffler, chief nursing officer at Huntington Hospital. “I’m absolutely grateful for this incentive to go into the field.”

Knoepffler said hospitals throughout the area and the country had a nursing shortage even before the pandemic.

Knoepffler said Huntington Hospital is also hoping to spark an interest in nursing and health care at area high schools, including Commack High School.

Huntington Hospital is providing a few students with the opportunity to learn about nursing and is looking to expand that program.

Nurses are “critical to the health of health care,” Knoepffler added. “If we don’t have enough nurses, we’re not going to be able to provide optimal health care.”

Indeed, a study in 2018 in the American Journal of Medicine calculated that patients in intensive care units were accompanied by nurses for over 86% of their time, compared with 13% with physicians and 8% with critical support staff. The figure exceeds 100% because some of these health care workers were in the room at the same time.

These scholarships will help students who might otherwise struggle financially to enter a profession that will be in increasing demand, particularly as current nurses retire.

“Having scholarships to help students stay in or enter the profession is great,” said Annette Wysocki, dean of the School

of Nursing at Stony Brook University. “We have a lot of first-generation students.”

These scholarships can also help ensure that students from a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds enter a challenging but rewarding field, providing underserved populations and communities with a link to the health care community.

Those students who graduate from nursing programs are likely to find a variety of professional opportunities, giving them greater chances to work in geographic areas and in medical specialties that appeal to them.

The American Nursing Association anticipates that more registered nurse jobs will be available through 2022 than any other profession in the country, according to Stony Brook University.

Robert Milone, who is working to earn a bachelor’s in nursing at Stony Brook in 2022, said he has received considerable encouragement about future prospects.

“There’s a lot of buzz around employment afterwards,” Milone said. He anticipates finding more “opportunities for our graduating class than there were.”

Some nurses have advised Milone, who is a native of Seaford and already earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Stony Brook in Health Science, to pursue his “dream job” after graduating.

While nurses applauded Hochul’s decision to create these scholarships, they described numerous nursing challenges.

The scholarships are a “fabulous idea,” said Nicolette Fiore-Lopez, chief nursing officer at St. Charles Hospital. While the scholarships will help in the future, “we need some help right now.”

Fiore-Lopez said a number of nurses have left the profession, both in New York and nationally.

Additionally, the pandemic may cause an increase in residents who need medical attention in the later parts of the fall and winter, when more people are indoors and when families come together from all over the country.

“By all predictors, we believe we will see another surge,” said Fiore-Lopez.

“Hopefully, it will remain somewhat blunted, with vaccines being what it is. Not having enough staff [could] become an issue.”

Fiore-Lopez urges states to think creatively about staffing solutions.

In addition to spending more on nursing students, New York and, indeed, the country, should consider investing more in the education system, which is already straining for resources.

For the past three years, the Stony Brook School of Nursing has admitted 160 students into the pre-licensure undergraduate program,

Robert Milone, above left, with Peter Killian and Thomas Fellows at the new Oath ceremony for students entering the undergraduate nursing program that Stony Brook started this year. Below, nursing student Jaclyn Jahn.

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which is about 14.2% to 15.9% of the qualified applicants they receive each year.

“We fervently wish we could accept more students but cannot because we do not have a sufficient number of faculty and resources,” Wyoski explained in an email.

Stony Brook’s nursing school, which has no endowed faculty positions, endowed professorships or endowed lecturers is “already stretched beyond our limits,” Wysocki added.

Fiore-Lopez suggested that the nursing system needs short-term and long-term fixes.

“I see the governor’s proposal as a longterm fix,” she said. In the shorter term, the nursing system needs other assistance, including some financial relief to provide extra staffing.

In the meantime, current students continue to hope to put their training and ambition to use in a field in high demand, particularly during the pandemic.

Jaclyn Jahn, another student in Stony Brook’s undergraduate nursing program, is following in the footsteps of her mother Lynda Jahn and her grandmother Joann Monahan, who have both been nurses.

Her mother and grandmother are “two of the most upstanding, independent, confident women I’ve ever met,” Jahn said. “They are everything I hope to one day live up to.”

Jahn, who sees her role as a patient advocate, looks forward to explaining medicine to patients and to helping patients “feel comfortable and heal.”

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Stony Brook University workers rallied Nov. 17. Photo by John Griffin/UPP

SBU workers rally for fair wages and respect

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University workers held their Rally for Respect and Fair Wages Nov. 17 in front of the school’s Administration Building.

The state employees belong to four campus union chapters, CSEA Local 614, GSEU-RAUCWA Local 1104, United University Professions and UUP Health Sciences Center, that make up SUNY Stony Brook Labor Council.

Andrew Solar-Greco, UUP Stony Brook chapter president, said in a phone interview that the Nov. 17 rally had a turnout of nearly 200 people.

SBLC represents 10,000 members. The union chapters were joined by the Long Island Federation of Labor and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Nassau and Suffolk. Members from the two latter labor unions have been standing outside on Nicolls Road the last few weeks.

Solar-Greco said the SBLC and trade unions decided to show solidarity.

“Our goal was to essentially bring attention to many of the labor issues happening on campus,” Solar-Greco said. The union president presided over the rally.

In addition to calling for a living wage, he said attendees have issues on their minds such as the Civil Service Employees Association working without a contract and fighting for hazard pay.

UUP HSC is also fighting for hazard pay for all of its members in health care at the hospital.

Solar-Greco said university center campus members are currently dealing with staffing shortages as well as more students than average in classes due to increased enrollments. He said members feel that the shortage of faculty and increase in class sizes affect the quality of education the students receive.

“We want to be there for our students,” SolarGreco said. “We want to set them up for success.

We want to propel this institution forward, but we need more staff — we’re understaffed.”

He added that adjunct and graduate students, which make up most of the instructional labor, are paid wages that are below Suffolk County’s poverty

level, and also depending on how many credits they teach, they may not get health insurance.

In an email statement after the rally, SBU officials said contracts are negotiated with the state, and that the university works “every day to foster a positive work environment where all employees are valued and respected.”

The statement also said officials supported the union members’ right to rally.

“At Stony Brook, we value the skilled work of every member of our staff. We support the unions’ right to express themselves, as they did at Wednesday’s rally. Contracts are negotiated between the state and the respective bargaining units rather than at the campus level.”

SBU officials added, “Where we have the opportunity to add to our graduate student employee stipends we do.” The university recently has done so, according to a message from SBU President Maurie McInnis that was emailed to the university’s community and posted to its website Nov. 15.

Graduate students and teacher assistants, who made less than $22,500 and have an academic year obligation, or make less than $27,875 with an annual obligation, were brought up to the dollar amount, retroactive Oct. 1. Those who made those amounts or more will receive an additional $500 for an academic year or $619 more for an annual obligation.

“Every graduate student employee will receive some measure of a stipend increase, proportionate to their appointment,” McInnis said in the email.

“The approximate total cost for funding this additional raise for these part-time appointments is $1.3 million.”

Solar-Greco said representatives of UUP meet once a semester with McInnis, and find she is open to discussions and hearing members’ concerns.

After keeping the university going through the pandemic, Solar-Greco added that the workers should be commended for a job well done.

“Through all the trials and tribulations and still being there for our students, we feel we deserve respect and fair wages and dignity in the workplace and movement on the issues that we have,” he said.

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Community News

Motorcycle club, town ‘bear’ toys for kids in need

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM It was certainly not an “unbearable” day.

On Sunday, Nov. 21, the Town of Brookhaven teamed up with the Red Knights Motorcycle Club NY Chapter 26 for its annual “Teddy Bear Run.” Each year, the club holds the event to collect donations of new Teddy Bears for thousands of needy children through the Town of Brookhaven Youth Bureau INTERFACE program.

Bikers from across the Island then ride together from the North to South shores for a participation fee and toy donation.

Stuffed animals of all shapes and sizes were donated at the Terryville Fire Department Headquarters in Port Jefferson Station where hundreds of riders met before

heading to their final stop — Painter’s restaurant in Brookhaven.

“I want to thank the Red Knights Motorcycle Club for their generosity and continued support of this program,” said Supervisor Ed Romaine (R). “These contributions will make it possible for so many children in need to experience the joy of opening a gift this holiday season.”

The Red Knights are an international firefighters motorcycle club and have been co-sponsoring the Teddy Bear run for nearly two decades.

“These guys, their day job is being heroes,” said Councilman Jonathan Kornreich (D-Stony Brook). “They spend their off-time getting involved in good causes like this and we really appreciate these guys so much.”

— All photos by Julianne Mosher

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Perspective

Part two: Traveling on the edge of a pandemic

Taking a solo backpacking tour through Europe proves the scars of COVID-19 are deep

BY KYLE BARR DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM This is part two of a two part series.

The Netherlands and Denmark

In Amsterdam, the classic Bulldog hostel, just one part of the company known for its pervasive marijuana products, was practically full to the brim compared to other hostels along my route. And still, people kept to their little groups, barely interacting with each other even in the spacious bar area.

Rosie, a young woman I met in Amsterdam and fellow American traveler from Detroit, talked of her own lonely experiences after she left friends in Istanbul, Turkey, to travel up to Dutch country.

There are ways to mitigate the loneliness.

Apps like CouchSurfing have the capacity for travelers to create hangouts. It’s how I managed to meet a group of international travelers all shut together in a tiny apartment in Amsterdam’s canal district for a house party/barbecue, where alcohol and marijuana loosened enough tongues to break through the concerns of pandemic life. Though that’s easier for young people, many of whom crowded along the rain-slick streets just outside the Amsterdam Centraal train station for a slimmed down version of Pride month festivities. None were wearing masks.

There are certainly places that seem to be trying to capture more of what prepandemic life was like. In Amsterdam and Denmark, masks are only worn in places where one can’t stay 1.5 meters away from people.

Of course, it’s a policy that is rarely if ever enforced, despite COVID cases peaking to a new high for the Netherlands in mid-July.

Despite what Dutch officials have recently said about limiting international travelers who come to revel in the famous smokefilled streets of the city center, the travelers there are undaunted.

Switzerland

The international travel industry grew to new heights up until just before the pandemic, but now many towns, cities and countries are starting to consider whether the general wealth that tourists bring to their homes is worth what they lose in a sense of place and community. The outdoor shopping malls of a city like Bern, Switzerland, are no longer flooded with travelers, and more locals can take the time to walk past the old town and up the hill to the Bern Rosengarten to enjoy a beer and the cool afternoon air with friends and family.

Left, attendees during a pared-down August pride celebration in Amsterdam. Above, Zurich, Switzerland, along the river Limmat, and below, the Gullfoss Waterfall in Iceland seen from high above. Photos by Kyle Barr

While in Switzerland I stayed with a native Swiss man named Pascal for two nights in his home, just a 20-minute train ride from Zurich. That city, so well known throughout the world as a tourist hotspot, no longer sees the crowds it once did. The surrounding mountains are trekked by locals, with more mountain goats than people. The way Pascal kindly greeted his fellows on the slopes of the Etzel mountain, located on the southern end of Lake Zurich, it seemed that a strong sense of polite community was still alive, and better exemplified away from the international crowds of a national center like Geneva or in the resort town of Zermatt, lingering under the craggy gaze of the Matterhorn.

Iceland and back home

On the final leg of my trip into Iceland, I reconnected with my brother. It was the

first time I met somebody I knew in seven weeks. We didn’t rent a car and were forced to take guided tours, one running down the brilliant length of the country’s south coast.

The other was a tour of the Golden Circle to massive sites around the center of the country. We were the only two people in a van with our tour guide. The other people scheduled for the tour bailed last minute and, instead of canceling, the tour operator still offered us our ride. The pandemic had been hard on tour guides. They are making less than 50% what they had been doing just two years ago. Iceland’s economy, and so many other countries in Europe, relies on tourism. In 2019, over 15% of the workforce in Iceland was in the tourism industry. Many European countries accounted for close to 10% of their total gross domestic product.

Some countries, like Greece, accounted for about 20% of their GDP. What will they do

if travelers do not show up at the rates they once did in the years to come?

These are big questions and impossible for one person to answer. Instead, as time moves on and the memories start to congeal in my brain, I’m left with an impression: Thousands of people laying under verdigriscovered statues built in a time centuries before, the uncertainty, the questions, sitting amid millions of lives trying to be lived dayto-day, wanting to see a future in which all can take one collective breath.

And like us back in the States, we’re still wanting and we’re still waiting.

Kyle Barr is a freelancer writer and the former editor of The Port Times Record, The Village Beacon Record and The Times of Middle Country.

Part one of this article appeared in the Nov. 18 edition of The Times of Middle Country and can also be found on tbrnewsmedia.com.

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Editorial

Supporting small businesses this holiday season There are certain things Cyber Monday and the internet can’t do for us as we shop during this holiday season. While the sales may be great online, there are some downfalls that we’ll experience this year making shopping locally even more important.

The next several weeks are going to be hard for devoted holiday shoppers thanks to COVID-19 and the continuous supply chain concerns that are happening across the country.

Experts are anticipating that large retailers like Apple and Amazon will experience a hit with sales due to shipping issues and staffing challenges. And although this will be tough for those businesses, it will also be a stress for the consumers themselves.

Whereas shopping via online Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals in the past was an easy click with shipping coming days after, buyers might see a delay in receiving those products in the mail.

But this might be a good time for us to take a step back and really support our neighbors who own their own shops in our local villages and towns.

Instead of anticipating a package in the mail — which might not even get here on time — we should head into town and shop small this holiday. The goods will be there right in front of us and we can take them home that day — easy one-stop shopping that makes our lives easier, but also provides income to a family owned business.

Shopping small comes with its own benefits: we can see the products, touch them and measure them for size.

We can find unique things that may not be available on a larger company website, making that gift a one-of-akind present the recipient will treasure.

And on top of that, it provides that shop owner with extra money to pay their own bills. Shopping small is a win-win for everyone.

After a tough two years post the initial outbreak of the pandemic, mom and pops have been hit hard with little ability to recover.

By shopping locally this year, it brings money back to the economy which then goes back to our own street repairs and our community.

We know that online shopping is usually easier, but with the current state of inventory and the surrounding issues, it might actually be better to walk over and visit a family owned shop.

Try it out this holiday season, and you certainly won’t be disappointed.

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Letters to the Editor Lack of morality in politics is today’s problem

Not as one of today’s Republicans and not as a progressive but as a moderate, I must query Charles Cozzolino’s quest to ignore morality in politics [letter to the editor, “Major victory,” Nov. 11]. Cozzolino accuses Shoshana Hershkovitz of making a bad argument against U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY1] by bringing morals into the debate.

This is straight from the former President Donald Trump [R] political handbook.

Morals be damned. “The most dangerous man in America,” according to Mary Trump, is the man whose ring Zeldin kisses, whom Zeldin, to this day, still backs. Zeldin says he believes Trump’s Big Lie despite at least 63 courts — many filled with Republican judges that Trump appointed himself, including three Supreme Court justices — decreeing that Trump had lost to Biden. No fraud?

Trump, the anti-democracy corrupt politician, is the person that Zeldin supports.

Nary a word of controversy from Zeldin who follows Trump to this democracy’s possible denouement. Is it fear or is it just Zeldin and the rest of his friends teaching their kids that money and power mean everything and the country be damned?

Even as early as July 2018, when Trump sat down with ex-KGB agent Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he admires, and believed him over USA intelligence agencies of not interfering with U.S. elections, Zeldin was nowhere to be heard from — our country’s well-being be damned.

There are so many instances of lack of morality: A sitting president that revved up the crowd at the Jan. 6 insurrection whereby police officers were tortured with American flags, suffocated by closing doors, and a search for Vice President Mike Pence [R] to hang him — all on videotape.

Several people said that after Trump’s speech, he was seen in the White House “giddy” watching the actions of these monsters and was quite angry at those telling him that he had to stop the madness.

Not once did I read of Zeldin having the guts to do anything but kowtow to the man who wants him to be governor of New York. Every congressperson who was OK with the insurrection and has voted against looking into it has a sick want of power and a cowardice coursing through their veins.

Never has this country seen such corruption and sickness as seen in Trump and yet very few Republicans stand strong.

Certainly not Zeldin.

And, in the end, we may leave a nondemocratic country to our kids. We teach them that morality doesn’t matter. We teach them that politicians, like Zeldin, by their

silence, by the crickets that chirp all around them as our country comes tumbling down, is as good as we get, as good as we deserve.

No! Morality is not a throwaway. If we truly believe that, then we deserve what we get, and what we get will be quite ugly — anything without morality usually is.

Karen Jillian Stony Brook

A little thought is in order

Before we hire a brass band to celebrate what Rob Cornicelli terms a “major victory for the American people” [in his Nov. 11 letter to the editor in TBR News Media newspapers] maybe a little thought is in order. No doubt this last election was a political victory for the Republican Party.

Whether it turns out to be a victory for the American people is another matter though.

In his letter, Cornicelli decries the “divisive tactics” of those “running to the left.” There’s more than a little hypocrisy in this, since he constantly resorts to divisive and loaded terms such as “socialist” and “far left” to demonize those who don’t agree with his views on the issues.

“Divisive” would also be a good description of the bile some Republicans have poured out onto the 13 members of their own party, including Rep. Andrew Garbarino [R] of the 2nd District here on Long Island, who put the needs of their constituents before partisan politics and voted for the Biden infrastructure bill. They received death threats and the most hateful abuse for that, including being doxed by a Republican congresswoman. Since he is running for Congress, maybe Cornicelli could do us all the courtesy of informing us if he would have voted for this bipartisan bill with its improvements in our road, bridge, mass transit, rail and port infrastructure.

At Cornicelli’s suggestion, I took a look at his campaign website. Under “Issues” I saw a lot of divisive stuff scapegoating “illegal aliens,” but not a word about climate change, COVID-19, the cost of prescription drugs, race relations or the spread of misinformation and disinformation on social media.

Does Cornicelli have anything to offer beyond wrapping himself in the flag, fulminating against “socialism,” which seems to mean anything the government does to help ordinary people, and obstructing any attempt to deal with our very real problems?

It will not be a victory for America if our children and grandchildren inherit a world of drought, flooding, rain bombs, intense hurricanes, wildfires and mass extinction.

If Cornicelli wants to represent us, it seems fair to ask him to spell out his plan to combat climate change. Will he support the interests of the coal mining industry like our present congressman, Lee Zeldin [R]? Will Cornicelli, like Zeldin, protect the oil and gas industry by opposing every effort to reduce emissions

of the powerful greenhouse gas methane? If so, his election might be a victory for him personally and for his party, but it would not be a victory for the American people.

David Friedman St. James

Supporting local businesses

In these difficult economic times, as a result of COVID-19, it is especially important to patronize your neighborhood businesses. Do it not only on annual Small Business Saturday, Nov. 27, but every day of the year.

Small independent businesses are at the mercy of suppliers, especially third-party brokers, who control the prices that must be paid for merchandise. There are additional costs of sanitizing the stores and providing protection to employees, who deal with the public during this ongoing health emergency.

I don’t mind occasionally paying a little more to help our local stores survive. The employees go out of their way to help find what I need. Customer service is their motto.

As an independent mom and pop store, they don’t have bulk buying purchasing power that Amazon or large national chain stores have. The owners can’t negotiate lower prices from suppliers. This is why they sometimes charge a little more. It is worth the price to avoid the crowds and long lines at larger stores in exchange for the convenience and friendly service your neighborhood community store offers.

Remember these people are our neighbors. Our local entrepreneurs have continued the good fight to keep their existing staff and suppliers employed without layoffs and canceling product or supply orders.

They continue to work long hours, pay taxes and keep as many employed as possible.

Many maintain the tradition of offering job opportunities to students during the holidays and summer.

Customers also patronize other commercial establishments on the block.

Foot traffic is essential for the survival of any neighborhood commercial district. If we don’t patronize our local community stores and restaurants to shop and eat, they don’t eat either. This helps keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing.

The owners of independent momand-pop stores are the backbone of our neighborhood commercial districts. Thank the hardworking owners and employees who continue to work during these tough times.

Show your support by making a purchase.

Stop by your favorite store and also drop off a box of candy or cookies as a show of appreciation. Something sweet for the holidays helps take the edge off the stress we all face.

Larry Penner Great Neck

NOVEMBER 25, 2021 • THE TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY • PAGE A19

Opinion

Mundane and magnificent moments during and after a magical moon

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h, the benefits of an older bladder.

Granted, that’s not generally the case.

Usually, I get up in the middle of the night, realizing that the dream that involves the search for a bathroom is my brain’s way of telling me that I need to urinate in real life.

I shift my weight slightly toward the floor, hoping that the rocking motion of my body doesn’t move the bed so much that I wake my wife or the cat sleeping on her, who sometimes sees my movement as D. None a starter’s gun to race of the above toward the table in the

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF laundry room to devour

another can of the same food he eats every day.

I slide my feet off the bed and try not to step on our huge dog, who moves around often enough that he could easily be that furry thing under my feet. My toes can’t always tell whether that’s him or just the softer part of the inside-out sweatpants I’ve been wearing for a week. I also try to avoid the other cat, whose tail is like a spring waiting for me to step on so he can shriek loudly enough to wake my wife and terrify the other cat and the dog.

When I reach the bathroom, I try to urinate into the bowl but away from the water to avoid any splashing sound. I retrace my steps back to the bed, hoping the safe places to step on the way out from the bed are still safe on the return.

This past week, the bathroom routine gave me the opportunity to look at a rare event. I watched the extended lunar eclipse, which was the longest it’s been in 580 years. I crept out to the hallway

to view it through a window, hoping I didn’t have to go out in the cold to catch a glimpse of Earth’s shadow. I was also concerned that the dog, even at 3 a.m., would fear that he was missing out on something and bark, negating my efforts to enjoy the eclipse in silence.

I was amazed at the shadow that slipped slowly across the moon. I took an unimpressive photo that captured the yin and yang of the light and shadow.

The next morning, I ran into some neighbors on my routine walk with my dog.

After saying how they’d stayed up all night to watch this rare event — they are retired and don’t have any time pressure most days — they started to recount their evening.

“I was tempted to dress in black and howl while I watched it,” the man said.

“Excuse me?” I asked.

“Well, you know, I figured as long as I was

up, the neighbors on the other side who think it’s OK to play basketball at 11:30 p.m. should know I was awake and active.”

“Hmm,” I said.

“Yeah, and the other day, they had a party and threw beer bottles over the fence into our backyard. It took until late in the day for them to pick them up.”

“That’s terrible,” I said. “Sorry to hear that.”

As I walked back with my dog, who was eager for his post-walk breakfast, I realized we had never discussed the sights from the night before.

Sleep deprivation overshadowed a discussion of the observation of the Earth’s long shadow.

As for me, I was, for the first time, grateful for the momentary need to pee. The evening and the morning interaction that followed brought to the fore a collision of the mundane and the magnificent.

Chronic migraine reversal with the LIFE diet, a study by a local internist gone viral

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local physician had a remarkable result. In clinical practice, he was treating a patient with severe migraines. The patient, 60 years old, had been experiencing migraines for 12 years. Recently they increased in frequency, and he was enduring six to eight debilitating headaches per month, each lasting more than 72 hours. This equates to 18-24 headache days each month.

For those of us who suffer migraines, we know this must have been horrible. A migraine is not just a bad headache. It is as if a drill were unremittingly penetrating one spot in the head, all the while accompanied by nausea, vomiting and an Between inability to tolerate light. you and me The aftermath is to feel

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF hung over and unsteady.

Migraines steal hours and days from the lives of the afflicted.

The patient had tried various traditional medications, like zolmitriptan and topiramate to no avail. He also avoided possible migraine triggers like aged cheese, caffeine and red wine

without success.

The internist, who specializes in lifestyle medicine, put him on a plant-based, high nutrient diet that he created of essentially low inflammatory foods every day. Hence he named it the LIFE diet, and its centerpiece is composed primarily of dark leafy greens, frozen blueberries, a banana and soy milk in a smoothie. These high fiber ingredients, when reinforced with flax seed meal, and a little pomegranate juice, can be made into a 32-ounce drink by a sturdy electric blender. The diet is further reinforced by eating more nutrient-dense veggies, like spinach, kale, arugula and romaine lettuce, for example, at subsequent meals in the day. These foods are thought to reduce chronic inflammation in the body.

The LIFE diet also limits dairy and red meat, whole grains, starchy vegetables and oils, according to reporter Sarah Jacoby, who interviewed the doctor for “Today” last Thursday, Nov. 18.

The results of the new regimen were dramatic.

After two months, the patient was experiencing one headache per month. After three months, the headaches were gone. The patient suffered no further migraines. This result has lasted more than seven years so far.

At this point, the local physician, teaming up with his brother, who is a medical researcher,

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wrote up the study and sent it to the highly prestigious British Medical Journal or BMJ that publishes medical case studies deemed important.

Delighted when it was accepted for publication, the doctor, who is a passionate believer in the healing power of dark green leafy vegetables, was further pleased when he learned that BMJ, considering the study valuable enough, had sent out a press release to publications all over the world with a summary.

The response was overwhelming, a testament to the need for a remedy to a universal malady. As of this writing, more than 40 news outlets across the globe, including UPI and WebMD, have picked up the story, from Europe to the Middle East to Asia and Australia, translating it into a dozen different languages.

“I think this (case report) is a tremendous start in the treatment of migraine headaches,” added the local physician. “This is kind of revolutionary to have the ability to say, ‘Not only does it work, but it works in the worst case scenarios. And it works in a short period of time.’” He has seen similar results in other of his patients.

Dr. Charles Flippen, professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, agreed, stating that the change the patient experienced was, “rather impressive,” especially how long the effect has lasted. He added, “Now

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a large sample is necessary to draw conclusions about the benefits of diet change on migraines or chronic migraines,” as quoted by Sarah Jacoby for “Today.”

Dr. Dawn Buse, clinical professor in the department of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York said, “There have been some recent studies suggesting that major dietary changes can reduce migraine symptoms,” according to “Today.”

“Even though we don’t know the exact mechanism for migraine, the concept of an inflammatory process as part of the underlying physiology of chronic pain has been around for decades,” explained Flippen. “So the idea that you have a diet that reduces the production of proinflammatory substances would fit nicely with our current understanding of migraine … It’s not purely magic that it worked.”

For the doctor, whose work has now circled the globe, the satisfaction is enormous. “I went into medicine to help people. It’s beyond gratifying that I may be helping people to take their lives back by reversing disease with the LIFE diet,” he concluded.

And the name of the local internist who authored the study that has gone viral: my son and our own columnist, David Dunaief, MD.

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