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2B Daily News – Friday, April 26, 2013 FEATURES Precautions help bikers avoid ED Hubby falling short as spouse, parent your husband credit for Dear Annie: I am curleaving the children with a rently in school and worksitter and not simply walking four different jobs. I am ing out on them, but it is not also the mother of three enough. No husband and children. My husband is father should be drinking all very selfish. He doesn't night, driving impaired and think twice about sending leaving the kids with a sitter our children to a sitter so he at a moment's notice. can go out to do whatever You cannot force him to he wants. When I'm at Annie's get help, but you can get school or working, I consome counseling, with or stantly worry about the kids. I feel it is his responsi- by Kathy Mitchell without him, in order to plan bility to take care of them and Marcy Sugar your future. Also contact Al-Anon (alwhen I cannot, and vice anon.alateen.org). If there is the versa. My husband also has a drinking potential for your husband to put the problem and won't admit it. My children in harm's way, he may heart breaks when he stays out need to leave the home for their most of the night with ''friends'' safety. Dear Annie: I'm a 72-year-old and passes out when he gets home early in the morning. I fear that one retired nurse who keeps herself fit day he will drive home so drunk and attractive. I work out in a gym that he will kill himself or someone regularly and dance with two performing groups, practicing several else. We are in our 30s, and at this times a week. All my life, people have told me point in life, I think he should be a responsible parent. He is a terrible that I'm too skinny and should gain role model for our children. I'm some weight. This is not true. I'm tired, I'm sad, I'm hurt, I'm anx- naturally slim. I usually let these ious, and I don't know what to do. comments go, but I now live in a retirement community, and the — Sad and Frustrated Wife Dear Wife: You are also a role remarks have become more fremodel, and that means you should quent. I would never go up to someone not put up with behavior that is detrimental to your marriage and to and say, ''You're fat. You need to your family's well-being. We give lose a few pounds.'' These com- Mailbox ments have become irritating. How should I respond? — Slim Senior in Banning, Calif. Dear Slim: You have several choices. You can ignore the comments. You can look surprised or hurt and say, ''Why would you say something so rude?'' Or you can reply, ''Thank you so much! I'm lucky to be naturally slim.'' As the people in your retirement community get to know you, they will stop making such comments. Please try to be patient. Dear Annie: ''Tired'' asked how to get her kids to pick up their clothes. My husband, a volunteer fireman, pointed out that clothes on the floor create a terrible fire hazard. We found a great way to get the kids to pick up their clothes. Tell them a couple of days in advance that if the clothes and toys aren't picked up by a certain time, they will be confiscated for three days. Then, if they don't comply, put everything in a large garbage bag and lock it up somewhere. (We used the trunk of our car.) We didn't have to do it more than twice. The kids hated the idea that we had control over their clothes. Thanks for giving people a place to ask questions they might be too embarrassed to ask anyone else. — Laura from Florida Manton School hearing scheduled On March 14, the California Department of Education approved a request to approve waiver of Education Code Section 35543 to allow the three districts listed above to lapse into the Antelope Elementary School District despite the fact that none of the three districts is contiguous to the Antelope Elementary School District which is a component district of the Red Bluff Joint Union High School District. The lapsation will provide financial and educational benefits for the Tehama County school districts and their students, including: expansion of programs, services, and academic interventions available to current students; greater ability to absorb extreme fluctuations in enrollment; centralization of district office functions; and greater financial stability. The Tehama County Committee on School District Organization will conduct a public hearing pursuant to Education Code 35782 to obtain public response regarding the lapsation of the Manton Joint School District, Mineral Elementary School District and the Plum Valley School District. A Public Hearing will be held at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 29, at the Tehama County Department of Education Board Room, 1135 Lincoln Street, in Red Bluff. For more information call (530) 528-7323. Tehama County Republicans dinner set Tehama County Republicans annual Red, White and Blue Lincoln Fundraising Dinner is set for Saturday, April 27, at the Veterans Memorial Building, 735 Oak St., in Red Bluff. Doors open at 5 p.m. for social, dinner served at 6 p.m. where the featured speaker Elizabeth Emken, Republican Candidate for US Senate 2012 and former vice president for Government Relations at Autism Speaks. Honoring Tehama County Republican of 2012 Former Tehama County Supervisor District 5 Ron Warner, invited honored guests include Rep. Doug LaMalfa, State Senator Jim Nielsen and Assemblyman Dan Logue. The Civil War-themed program will feature Frank Jones as Abraham Lincoln and patriotic songs by, Linda Davis, Val Say, Miles Leyva and JR Gonzales. A $300 cash drawing and silent auction will take place along with a buffet style dinner by Cattle Country Catering. Dinner tickets are $40 and include one drawing ticket. A table for four is $160 and includes eight drawing tickets; table for eight is $320 and includes 16 drawing tickets. Additional drawing tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. To make reservations call Ken Say at (530) 5291226. penis and, eventuDEAR DOCally, ED. TOR K: I'm an Taking a few avid biker. But simple precaucould my biking tions when biking lead to erectile can help prevent dysfunction? sexual dysfuncDEAR READtion: ER: Biking is an — Get a wide, excellent form of Dr. K well-padded bicyexercise. But cle seat to absorb occasionally, if by Anthony L. men who bicycle Komaroff, M.D. the impact of the ride. A gel-filled many hours each week are not careful, it seat is a good choice. Narcan lead to temporary row seats place the most erectile dysfunction. Your pressure on the perineum. — Position the seat so question caused me to review articles on this that it puts minimal prestopic that have been pub- sure on the perineum. lished in medical journals. Make sure the seat is not It appears that there so high that your legs are are no studies large fully extended at the botenough to give us a good tom of your pedal stroke. idea of just how often Don't tilt the seat up. — Raise the handlebars bicyclists develop this condition. The risk so that you're sitting relaappears to be highest for tively upright. This will men who cycle more than shift the pressure to your three hours a week. I buttocks. They can handle can't find any published the pressure much better research study to support than your perineum can my speculation, but I'll — they're better cushbet the risk is lower in ioned. — For extra protection, using stationary bikes than in riding outdoors: consider wearing padded The bumps in the road get biking pants. If you feel tingling or transmitted through the numbness in your penis, bike seat. One recent study com- stop riding for a week or pared 142 men in a bicy- two. These are warning cle club to 83 men who signs that your biking did not ride bicycles and could lead to erectile found no difference in the problems. Even if you rate of erectile dysfunc- don't feel any warning tion. This does not mean symptoms, it's a good idea that frequent riding cannot to change your position cause sexual problems, and take breaks during but it probably means that long rides. Perhaps the best advice it doesn't happen very is to make biking one part often. The reason avid bikers of a balanced fitness prosometimes get erectile gram. Alternate riding dysfunction (ED) is that with walking, jogging or the seat puts pressure on swimming. Climb off the perineum. That's the your stationary bike and area between the genitals get on a treadmill, elliptiand anus that contains the cal trainer or stair climber. nerves and arteries that Dr. Komaroff is a run into the penis. A narrow bicycle seat places physician and professor Harvard Medical pressure on the perineum, at To send compressing crucial School. go to nerves and arteries. 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