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2B Daily News – Thursday, March 21, 2013 FEATURES Constant visits, phone calls irk couple parents once a day to check Dear Annie: Many on them and let them hear years ago, my wife and I your voice, or turn your lived near my parents. cellphones on vibrate and After three years of call them back when you putting up with their too feel like it. Both choices frequent and always unanare perfectly reasonable. nounced visits, we moved Many grown kids call their slightly farther away. My parents daily just as a kindDad is the worst offender. Mom caters to his every Annie's ness. We think it's worth five minutes of your day to whim. Dad is extremely reassure your folks that selfish and really never cares whether he intrudes. by Kathy Mitchell you are OK — and to stop After we moved, the and Marcy Sugar them from driving you nuts. drop-in visits became less Dear Annie: For many years, I frequent, but now the constant phone calls drive us crazy. I have have used the same beautician to nicely explained to Mom that after cut my hair. She became a good a hard day at work, we turn off our friend in the process. However, landline so we can have some about a year ago, my hair just quiet time. I told her not to worry wasn't ''cooperating'' with her if we don't answer. I also told her cuts, so I tried a different beautithat if there is an emergency, she cian and loved the results. Now I'm torn. I'd like to concan call our cellphones. The problem is, Dad goes ballistic if he tinue with the new stylist, but I cannot reach us and immediately don't want to lose an old friend. How do beauticians feel about tells Mom to call our cellphones. We have been married 29 years their clients when they try someand have grown children. We one else's styles? And how do I wouldn't dream of dropping in on tell my friend without hurting her them unannounced or constantly feelings? — Uneasy About calling when we know they want Switching Dear Uneasy: We imagine some peace and quiet. I call my parents twice a week to check on your friend wouldn't be thrilled to them. They are both in excellent know you have given your busihealth. Am I supposed to account ness to someone else, although if to them every single day? Why do she sees you as a true friend and they do this, and how can we get not simply as a paying client, she some peace while keeping the will get over it. But why don't you first show her your new style and peace? — Perplexed Dear Perplexed: You have two ask whether she can duplicate it? simple options: Either call your It could solve the problem with Mailbox less angst. Dear Annie: I read all the responses to ''Your Husband'' about who is at fault in the bedroom. I've been married for 27 years. I am in good shape, work 50 hours a week, do a lot of the cooking and help clean. My wife works part time out of the house. Yet, when it comes to a relationship in or out of the bedroom, she ignores me. I have tried to get her to talk, but she won't. I have tried to do little things to show her that I love and appreciate her, but she always takes them the wrong way. It makes me a little gun shy to keep asking. Men have feelings, too. We need attention from our spouses as much as they do. I have thought about what it would be like to find a little on the side, but have resisted. There is an old saying that I once read: ''A woman makes all the rules, and a man is not to know the rules. If she suspects he knows the rules, she is to change all or some of the rules.'' It's not so funny now. — Irritated in Clarendon Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. 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ER: No, you Komaroff, M.D. vision or blindness. There was a shouldn't stop taking aspirin. Medicine link between aspirin and — and life — is full of wet AMD. However, this study trading off one risk for another. Doctors and does not mean that medical scientists aren't aspirin is proven to (yet) smart enough to increase the risk of discover or invent treat- AMD. It could be, for ments that have absolute- example, that something ly no risks, only benefits. else about the people in So you have to compare the study caused them to the risk of a treatment both take aspirin and against your risks if you develop AMD. In other words, aspirin was linked don't take it. I'll bet you read about to AMD, but aspirin was a recent study, published not the cause of AMD. Even if aspirin does in the Journal of the American Medical Asso- increase the risk of ciation, which linked AMD, the study showed aspirin use with a small that the added risk of increased risk of age- aspirin use was small. related macular degener- About 14 in 1,000 ation (AMD). But this aspirin users developed increased risk was far late-stage wet AMD smaller than the proven compared to six in 1,000 benefits of aspirin for non-aspirin users — preventing a heart attack. eight more people out of AMD is an eye condi- 1,000. So should you shy tion. It damages the macula, a small part of the away from aspirin? The retina of the eye that is answer is no, especially responsible for sharp if you are taking a daily central vision. There are low-dose aspirin to pretwo forms of AMD. vent a heart attack. The "Dry" AMD is the most small (and still unconcommon. Some people firmed) added risk of with it have no symp- AMD is far outweighed toms; others have vision by the rock-solid benefits loss. Dry macular degen- of aspirin for the heart. But this study does eration can progress to "wet" AMD. In this raise an important point. form, abnormal blood Even a "safe" medication vessels in the eye leak like aspirin isn't somefluid and blood, some- thing you want to take times causing loss of regularly unless it will clearly do you some vision. The study that linked good. In this case, it will. P.S.: I practice what I aspirin and AMD has followed nearly 5,000 preach. I take low-dose adults for decades to see aspirin daily to prevent a how their eyesight heart attack. changes as they age. ParDr. Komaroff is a ticipants in the study were checked for signs physician and professor Harvard Medical of macular degeneration at To send every five years. Among School. go to other questions, they questions, or were asked about their AskDoctorK.com, write: Ask Doctor K, 10 aspirin use. Participants in the Shattuck St., Second study were at slightly Floor, Boston, MA 02115. 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