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2B Daily News – Wednesday, December 11, 2013 FEATURES Insulin injections are virtually painless long it takes for DEAR DOCthe insulin to peak TOR K: I have to and how long it start taking insulin remains active. for my Type 2 diaDifferent types of betes. It sounds insulin can be complicated. What used alone or in do I need to know combination. before I start? The type of DEAR READinsulin and how ER: The first thing Dr. K much and how you need to know by Anthony L. is that it is simple Komaroff, M.D. often you use it varies from perto learn and do, and the discomfort is min- son to person. You'll work imal. Tens of millions of with your doctor or diapeople all over the world betes educator to develop do it every day — and an individualized insulin probably most of them program. 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Insulin can't be taken The doctor may recomas a pill; it must be taken mend adjustments in the by injection or with an dose of insulin based on insulin pump. (Insulin these blood levels. You'll learn to manage pumps are generally reserved for people with your blood sugar by testType 1 diabetes.) A dia- ing your blood once or betes educator will teach twice a day to determine you how to measure, pre- whether you need to pare and administer the adjust your insulin dose. You'll use a glucose meter injections. The equipment avail- to do the testing; that's able today makes injec- standard equipment for tions virtually painless. most people with diabetes. You can refrigerate The needles are very small; you barely feel insulin or store it at room them when they pierce temperature. But don't your skin. Most people freeze it. Also, discard use syringes or insulin insulin that has expired or "pens." A pen injector looks cloudy or otherwise uses disposable needles strange. and insulin cartridges. It's Dr. Komaroff is a portable and discreet, and it provides multiple accu- physician and professor Harvard Medical rate doses without your at To send needing to measure and School. questions, go to fill syringes. AskDoctorK.com, or There are several formulations of insulin. They write: Ask Doctor K, 10 vary based on how quick- Shattuck St., Second ly they start working, how Floor, Boston, MA 02115. QuickBooks Advanced III NEC Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Butte College presents "QuickBooks Advanced III" 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, Dec. 19, at the Medical Specialty Center, 284 Spruce, Gridley. The cost of the workshop is $50 per person prepaid or $60 per person at the door. This workshop is a more advanced approach to QuickBooks. It will focus on analyzing financial data, setting up inventory, tracking and paying sales tax, estimating and progress invoicing, tracking time, customizing forms and reports, as well as an overview of advanced features (i.e., importing data, fixed asset list, syncing contacts, and sharing your file electronically with your accountant). Includes manual. Pre-Requisite: Introduction to QuickBooks I and QuickBooks Basics II. Pre-registration is required by calling 530-895-9017 or visiting www.bcsbdc.org. Ex is using children to lure me back every week, my ex or my Dear Annie: I was marbrother contacts me and tries ried to a verbally abusive to make me feel like a terrinarcissist for 10 years. Two ble person for leaving. Will separations and three counit ever stop? — Exhausted in selors later, I decided to Wisconsin leave him. That was in Dear Wisconsin: We June. hope so, but you have to be I recently met someone strong. Until the divorce is who makes me believe there are good people out Annie's final, your husband (and brother) will try to wear you there. But my soon-to-be ex down so you will return. As and my brother have been screaming from the by Kathy Mitchell long as the children can be rooftops that I am a cheater, and Marcy Sugar used to pressure you, your ex will do so. We know you and that my husband's behavior was perfect. This hurts me are tired, but you need to fight back so deeply I cannot describe the pain. a little harder. Let your parents I bent over backward for this know exactly what is going on, and man for years, but he always has to let them see the documentation. ''win.'' Due to my brother's bad- Make sure you have a good attorney mouthing me and my unwillingness who will see that the kids are proto fight, my parents barely speak to tected and have access to both of me. My ex is irresponsible about their parents. Don't push your new money, so I paid off his truck and relationship. It's too soon for your am making half of his house pay- parents to accept. And keep seeing ment so my kids have a place to stay your counselor. It will help. Dear Annie: I have battled canwhen they see him. I have 10 pages of documentation from all the horri- cer since 1995. I will be on chemotherapy or some drug until I bleness I have lived through. I hope my parents someday will wish no further medical intervenwarm up to the new man who treats tion. I am always bald, so I wear a me so well. I have given up on my beautiful assortment of headbrother. Meanwhile, my ex keeps scarves. This usually elicits a caring telling me how he is doing ''the smile, the start of a conversation or right thing'' by letting my children a comment meant to give hope. And see me, because all of his friends while I am grateful for the smiles tell him not to. Of course, he never and caring statements, there is one was involved with the kids. He's comment I would like to eliminate. A number of people say, ''Well, using them for leverage. I pay for all of the children's we're all dying.'' I understand these expenses and their health insurance, folks mean well, but it is a condeand I see a counselor regularly. But scending and insensitive thing to Mailbox say. Instead of giving hope or comfort, it says that my terminal diagnosis isn't that big of a deal and I should just get over it. Please tell people to think carefully before making such a comment to one who is terminally ill. — Counting My Blessings in Jacksonville, Fla. Dear Counting: We could write a book about all of the inappropriate comments that people make when confronted with awkward or difficult situations. Thanks for alerting them to put this particular phrase in a locked drawer and throw away the key. Dear Annie: ''Not Lonely in Virginia'' said she has trouble making friends. When she added, ''I suspect it may have to do with reading body language. I can't interpret the signals,'' it sounded like Asperger's. I was in a relationship with a man with Asperger's, and I didn't have a clue about this syndrome. It was devastating. I read everything I could and now understand it. Please direct her to www.aspergers.com, where she will be welcomed and understood. — Sioux Falls Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. Fresh produce 101 Psssst! Could you use an extra $300? You might want to take a look in your garbage. A survey conducted by the Garbage Project and Glad, the food storage people, revealed that the average household throws away 150 pounds of rotten produce each year. At a conservative estimate of $2 a pound, each household is losing about $300 by tossing out produce that's become more suitable for a biology project than human consumption. In a survey of 1,000 households, Glad found that while 83 percent considered themselves knowledgeable about the best ways to store produce, only 32 percent knew the proper way to store apples; 38 percent the best way to store strawberries. And so My Dear Readers, in an effort to raise our collective PIQ (produce intelligence quotient), what follows is a crash course in the proper care and storage of fresh fruits and vegetables. General: Most fruits will ripen at room temperature. However, once ripe, they should be refrigerated. With few exceptions, do not wash fruits or vegetables before storing because washing hastens spoilage. Rather, wash just before eating. Apples: Store in the refrigerator; do not overcrowd. Allow for good air circulation. Unwashed, will last at least 3 weeks. Bananas: Store at room temperature, unbagged; suspended from a hook is ideal. Do not refrigerate. Once ripe, will last three to five Will remain fresh and crisp for 7days. Can freeze: Peel, slice 10 days. Tomatoes: To ripen, store at and spread on cookie sheet. room temperature, stem up and Once frozen, bag them. Raspberries: Do not away from sunlight. Store in plastic sealable bag in the wash until ready refrigerator. Will stay to use. Store in a firm for up to a week once plastic container ripe. with a tight-fitting Potatoes, dry onions: lid. For optimum length Never refrigerate. Store of life, arrange berries in a dark, cool space such in a single layer. Will as the closet or pantry. last for two to three Require good air circuladays in the refrigerator, tion. To get onions to last depending on how ripe for a month or longer: they are. Cut one leg from a clean Strawberries: Do not Mary pair of pantyhose. Drop wash; do not remove an onion into the toe, tie stems. Store in a seala knot close to the onion. able bag. To achieve Drop in another. Repeat maximum freshness until filled. Hang from a life, arrange strawbernail in the pantry. Need ries in a single layer in a an onion? Cut right plastic container with below the lowest knot. tight-fitting lid. Will Suspended with air circulation stay fresh for four to five days. Grapes: Do not wash. Leave on encourages long life for onions. stems and store in a zip-type bag Works well with garlic and potain the refrigerator. Unwashed, will toes too. stay fresh for two to three weeks. Would you like to send a tip to Washed? One week if you're Mary? You can email her at lucky. Always wash just before mary@everydaycheapskate.com, eating. Avocados: Ripen at room tem- or write to Everyday Cheapskate, perature on the counter, and then P.O. Box 2099, Cypress, CA store in the refrigerator. Will stay 90630. Include your first and last fresh and wonderful for up to five name and state. Mary Hunt is the founder of days. Lettuce: Here's an exception to www.DebtProofLiving.com and the washing rule: Wash well under author of 23 books, including her cold running water. Drain well. 2013 release "Cheaper, Better, Store in sealable plastic bag in the Faster: Over 2,000 Tips and Tricks refrigerator (insert a paper towel to Save You Time and Money Every in the bag to absorb moisture). Day." Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Targets for Toys fundraiser Clear Creek Sports Club at Rolling Hills Casino in Corning will conduct its annual Targets for Tots event Dec. 14-15. Proceeds from trap at JOIN THE NEW GENERATION OF GOOD LISTENERS Every Wednesday December 18 January 8, 15, 22, & 29 Pine Street Plaza 332 Pine Street, Suite G Red Bluff, CA Stacy L. Garcia Hearing Aid Dispenser Lic. #7440 (800) 843-4271 $6 per round and sporting clays $36 per round will be used to purchase toys that will be distributed by local non-profit agencies. Times are available from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. 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