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Tuesday, March 19, 2013 – Daily News 3B FEATURES Firestorm occurs during seizure Question about forced touching for kids nothing to do with molestaDear Annie: I have a tion. Kids who are forced to question about forced hug Aunt Jane, whose breath touching. Let's say an 8reeks and who tends to pinch year-old doesn't want to their cheeks, will not be hug her uncle or give endearing her to them. And Grandma a kiss. Do you yes, kids who think they force the kid to do it? Do must permit adults to touch you badger, threaten and them are more likely to make a fuss? I'm wondering about Annie's remain quiet if they are molested. this because if you tell your Dear Annie: My best kid, ''You have to give this person a hug'' or ''You by Kathy Mitchell friend of 30 years is a hoardhave to shake their hand,'' and Marcy Sugar er — not the ''Buried Alive'' type, but more the aren't you teaching the kid that their body doesn't belong to Need To Clean House type. ''Rita'' them? If you force your kid to allow has not invited me over to her home others to put their hands on your in more than three years, while she kid's body, how will they know has been to mine several times. I want Rita to enjoy her house when they shouldn't be touched at again and have offered on numerous all? I hear all these people coming occasions to help clean. She agrees forward to say they were molested that she needs it, but never follows as kids by uncles, grandparents and through. What else can I do? I've other relatives, and that they didn't thought of calling Rita's sister, who say anything because they were lives out of town, to advise her of taught that an adult could touch the severity of the situation. However, I'm not sure the sister can get them at will. — New York Dear New York: No child away to come, in which case my should be forced to hug, kiss or call would only upset her. And Rita even touch another person, even a wouldn't appreciate that I called her relative. You certainly can encour- sister. Last week, a mutual friend told age or suggest that she ''give Grandma a kiss goodbye,'' but noth- me that the roof of Rita's house ing more than that. If the child looks bad. She lives in the neighbalks, don't push or express dis- borhood and walks by every day. pleasure. Leave it alone. Some kids We can't figure out what to do. Any are naturally reluctant to display suggestions? — Want To Help Dear Want: We suspect Rita is that type of affection, and it has Mailbox embarrassed by the condition of her house and doesn't want her friends to clean it. She also may be having financial difficulties, making repair work beyond her means. Could you get a group of friends together to hire a cleaning service? Tell Rita you know she hasn't had time to clean and you are worried about her. Say that you'd like to present her with the cleaning service as a gift. Ask her what day works best, and then set it up. However, there isn't much you can do if she absolutely refuses your assistance. An unkempt house is not cause for alarm, and if Rita is, in fact, hoarding, she'll need more help than you can provide. Dear Annie: Like ''Well Endowed in Kansas,'' my breasts were often the topic of conversation. After my second child was born, my chest ballooned to a size GG on my size-8 frame. Carrying around a 1-year-old and an infant in addition to my chest was unbearable. Enduring the leers and snide jokes from disgusting men and the backhanded comments from other women was demoralizing. Breast reduction surgery changed my life. No more comments, conversations or back pain. I wear regular bathing suits and bras. It's liberating to feel and look like an appropriately proportioned woman. — ''Breast'' of Luck to You 4-H activities around the county Courtesy photos Friday Afternoon Left: Flournoy/Paskenta 4-H members setting flags on soldiers markers in honor of Veteran's Day. 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It's very dramatic: A person caused by epilepsy. It's not uncommon, for loses consciousness, falls to example, for very young the ground and temporarily children to have seizures stops breathing. All body when they get a high fever. muscles tense up at once for Called febrile seizures, they a few seconds; the head and usually occur once or a few shoulders bend backward. Then, just as suddenly, the times and go away forever. Seizures are caused by arms and legs start jerking sudden, brief changes in the and sometimes the face brain's electrical activity. starts twitching. After a few Our brains have hundreds of minutes, the person wakes billions of cells. The ones up. However, he or she can that do the work — the ones be confused and "out of it" that help us to think, remem- for several hours thereafter. But seizures can be more ber, see, hear, smell, feel and cause us to move — talk to subtle. A person may just each other through electrical stare blankly and blink their eyes. Nothing is getting and chemical signals. What happens in the through; you can't reach brain when someone has a them. Or a person may sudseizure is an electrical denly begin to do strange firestorm. Brain cells fire things, such as emptying the uncontrollably at up to four contents of a dresser drawer onto the floor. Or a person times their normal rate. There are two main types may suddenly have unconof seizures. A generalized trollable jerking of one side seizure involves the entire of the face, an arm or a leg, brain. A partial seizure along with a brief loss of affects only part of the brain awareness of the world. — but it can turn into a gen- After a seizure, a person has no memory of the episode. eralized seizure. For most people, seizures The brain's electrical activity can be seen on an can be controlled with medelectroencephalogram ication. If you are with your (EEG). Metal electrodes friend when she has a attached to the outside of the seizure, call the doctor. 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