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Thursday, October 10, 2013 – Daily News 3B FEATURES High-heels can cause Woman wants to find 'lost love' in stranger After the attacks, my by calling their hotline at 1-800have been Morton's Neuroma hurtDear Annie: Iby men in friend was examined in a 656-HOPE (ohl.rainn.org/online). many times the skin on the DEAR DOCunderside of the TOR K: I have foot. Inflammapain in the ball of tion of tissue my foot. My docaround the joint tor thinks it is (capsulitis or burcaused by a Morsitis), or inflamton's neuroma. mation of one of How did I get this, the foot bones, and what can I do can also cause about it? Dr. K pain. A doctor DEAR READby Anthony L. ER: Morton's neu- Komaroff, M.D. makes the diagnosis of Morton's roma is a swelling of the nerve between the neuroma by pushing bones at the base of the directly on the spot toes in the ball of the foot. between the third and The pain it causes usually fourth toes where it forms. Treatment usually is in one spot. It can feel like you have a pebble in starts with switching to your shoe. Once the nerve shoes that have wide toe starts to swell, the nearby boxes, low heels and good bones and ligaments put arch support. A foot-care pressure on the nerve, specialist may also recomworsening the irritation mend an adhesive pad to and inflammation. (I've fit under the front of your put an illustration of a foot. Custom-made shoe Morton's neuroma on my inserts, or orthotics, can w e b s i t e , correct any structural foot problems that might conAskDoctorK.com.) A neuroma usually tribute to nerve compresoccurs between the bones sion. You can also relieve of the third and fourth toes. It causes aching painful inflammation by pain, a burning sensation, icing the area or taking and numbness and tin- nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as gling in the toes. Morton's neuroma is ibuprofen, naproxen or much more common in aspirin. Occasionally, a foot women than in men. In most cases, high-heeled, specialist will inject the narrow-toed shoes are to area with a steroid and blame. High heels shift anesthetic to reduce the foot bones into an inflammation and numb abnormal position and put the pain. This can't be pressure on the ball of the repeated very often, foot. This causes the foot because the treatment can bones to put pressure on damage the tissues, but it the nerve, and that can give you temporary increases the risk that a relief. Inflamed or injured neuroma will form. Once it forms, the same pres- nerves can take time to sure from bones makes it improve. But if your pain continues despite several hurt. Less often, physical months of treatment, your activities that stress the doctor may recommend feet (such as running or surgery. Surgery can racquet sports) can cause remove the neuroma or a Morton's neuroma. You create a wider space for can temporarily relieve the affected nerve to travel the pain by taking off your through. shoes, flexing your toes Dr. Komaroff is a and rubbing your feet. physician and professor Other causes of foot Harvard Medical pain can be confused with at To send Morton's neuroma. A wart School. questions, go to on the ball of the foot can or cause pain, for example. AskDoctorK.com, So can inflammation of a write: Ask Doctor K, 10 sheet of tissue called fas- Shattuck St., Second cia (FASS-cha) beneath Floor, Boston, MA 02115. New Calif. law limits worker comp for pro athletes SACRAMENTO (AP) — Professional athletes who spend most of their careers with teams in other states will be prohibited from filing workers' compensation claims in California, under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. AB1309 will close a legal loophole that has let athletes collect large cash settlements by claiming they suffered cumulative trauma during their professional careers, even if they have little to no employment history in California, Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, said Tuesday. He said the California Insurance Guarantee Association has paid nearly $42 million in claims to professional athletes since 2002. An average of 34 new claims are being filed each month. ''Our workers' compensation system will no longer be unfairly targeted by out-of-state professional athletes and California businesses will finally be protected from these claims,'' Perea said in a statement. Supporters of the law have argued that the claims put a burden on the state workers' compensation system and could raise insurance costs. The compensation itself is paid by employers, including the team owners, not by taxpayers. Opponents said the legislation was orchestrated by the owners of football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer teams to avoid liability for cumulative injuries. Two dozen former players, including San Francisco 49ers defensive player Dana Stubblefield and Reggie Williams of the Cincinnati Bengals, spoke out against the bill during a news conference at the state Capitol in April. Brown announced his signing of the bill without comment. The law brings California into line with the majority of states, which limit such claims. California has been one of nine states that permit workers' compensation claims on cumulative trauma injuries like those claimed by professional athletes over time. The state also has had broad rules on how long former athletes can file claims in California. Proponents said the athletes should get compensation for their injuries in the state where they were primarily employed. The bill will allow claims that already have been filed to continue through the process. Former California professional athletes can still file claims under the bill. Players employed by out-of-state teams will be allowed to file claims if they spent more than 20 percent of their professional time in California or worked for a California-based team for part of their professional or semi-professional career. ''This new law sets reasonable standards to close an expensive loophole unique to California and to professional sports,'' Dennis Kuhl, chairman of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, said in a statement released through Perea's office. He said the law benefits not only sports teams but ''all California businesses and their workers and ensures that our Workers' Compensation system is there for in-state players.'' hospital, and a rape kit was my life. I am now ready to done. He then began attendfind one good man to love ing support groups sponforever. I've been looking sored by different church online, and a man on one organizations. He was sursite caught my attention prised to learn that hundreds with his looks and his proof other men have underfile. The problem is, he doesn't seem to be check- Annie's gone similar experiences. My friend later saw one ing his emails. of the perpetrators shopping Do you know how I could find him? I listed by Kathy Mitchell in a well-known store and what little information I and Marcy Sugar immediately called his local investigating officer. The had on Craigslist, hoping someone would recognize him, but officer told him, ''He has the right no luck. This might be my lost love. to shop in that store just as you do.'' Do you have any suggestions for The local authorities have no sympathy for male rape. The FBI has a finding him? — Betty Dear Betty: It is quite possible division to cover violent crimes, but this man isn't responding to your they mainly focus on female rape. emails because he is not interested. Somehow, male rape is an untouchYou are dangerously close to being able subject. I am writing you to ask that you a stalker. Please stop searching for this particular guy — or any ''lost refer victims of such crimes to a love,'' which is too great an expec- protection agency that will go to bat tation to place on someone. Consid- for them. Will you publish this letter er other men who might have more to generate responses for other vicpotential if you back off and give tims? This sort of crime needs to be explored, publicized, exposed by them time to get to know you. Dear Annie: Male rape is a sub- news agencies and brought to the ject that is seldom mentioned. A attention of someone who cares. — close and dear male friend (in his California Dear California: It is estimated late 40s) was severely raped twice. He was kidnapped from his resi- that 10 percent of all sexual assault dence, drugged, sodomized and left victims are male. And while that is naked on the first occasion, and then a lower number than for women, it his residence was broken into, and is still considerable, and the victims he was tied up and raped a second should receive the same respect time. The general public may think from the authorities. All rape victhis is rare and unusual. Not as tims, male or female, can find support through RAINN (rainn.org) or much as you'd believe. Mailbox For advocacy in bringing this subject to the attention of the public, please contact MaleSurvivor.org. Dear Annie: I had to weigh in on the letter from ''Joe Not-SoCool,'' who asked whether he should travel in Europe for a while or be a ''hardworking loser in a loser job.'' That phrase told me that what might be necessary for Joe to achieve his desired goals is an attitude adjustment. The millions of low paying and less than glamorous jobs being done by Americans throughout the country are not ''loser jobs.'' They are an integral part of our economy and are being done by honest, hardworking people to the best of their ability. There is dignity in this, period. If Joe took one of these entrylevel ''loser jobs'' in his field, he might eventually achieve his dream. This is what happened with me. I started on the lowest rung possible in my field, and now I have a position I could only dream about. I am set up perfectly in my career because I worked hard and took pride in the job I was doing. — Been There in Hawaii 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. Joys of raising financially confident teens DEAR MARY: As a teen, my daughter wanted name brand jeans, clothing, shoes -whatever she thought all of the "cool" kids had. She wouldn't step into a thrift shop or discount store. It was a constant battle until I decided that she would have a clothing/necessity allowance. I gave her a set amount of money each month to cover those expenses. If there was an event coming up, she would need to save ahead to pay for whatever she needed, including her prom gown and all the accessories. It worked wonderfully. She learned to sit down and figure out what she really needed and then budget for it. She began shopping at thrift stores and discount stores to save money. She learned to make long-range plans. It was a valuable lesson that I wished I'd started earlier! --Margaret, email DEAR MARGARET: The longer I live the more convinced I am that the only way to train children to be financially confident in ways that will extend far into their adult years is to give them the ability to make their own independent financial decisions while they are still young -- then require them to live with the consequences of those decisions, good or bad. I applaud Just beware that as an authorized your decision to give your daughter user, she could go crazy and the opportunity and charge up the account to the the mandate to limit, without you knowing. manage money She would have no legal while she was still obligation to repay the debt under your and you would have no authority. legal recourse to make her. DEAR MARY: I am Her potential downside in a quandary. My is that your credit behavior, daughter, 14, has earned as the account holder, enough money to purcould take a dive sending chase her own e-reader. all kinds of negative inforIn order to use the device mation to her account. to download things, she Mary While these possibilities must have a credit card exist, I would say the on file. She is a responsichances of things turning ble young lady, and I sour would be slim to none have no fear she will for you and your daughter. abide by rules I set. Congratulations for having Thanks for your advice raised your daughter to be on the best way to handle responsible enough to have this situation. --Kathline earned your trust in this way. I wish K., email DEAR KATHLINE: I suggest you both the best. that you add your daughter to your Mary invites questions at existing credit card as an "authorized user." 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The Pioneers who Shaped Shasta County: Who were the men and women who came to the North State in the 19th century, when it was wild and lawless, to carve out and shape it into Shasta County? "Meet" some of the pioneers, including Pierson B. Reading, Shasta County's first permanent settler who was responsible for the spread of the gold rush into the region; Donna Coleman, the first female Shasta County school superintendent; and Levi Tower, proprietor of the famous Tower House Hotel. Presented by Dottie Smith, Shasta County historian. Joseph, the Dreamer: An Introduction to Biblical Narrative: A Jewish proverb states, "God made people because he loves stories." The purpose of this course is to help participants understand how biblical writers crafted the stories of the Bible. The focus will be on one narrative—the life of Joseph recorded in Genesis 37-50. Presented by Dr. Glenn Schaefer, professor of Old Testament. Simpson University for Seniors is a program designed for adults of any age who are interested in studying a variety of topics in monthlong, not-for-credit courses. The classes meet 10:20-11:20 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on Simpson's campus, for a total of 10 one-hour instructional sessions. Courses are taught by university professors and professionals in their field of expertise, and there are no tests, grades or homework. Two courses are offered each month through May. The cost is $95 per person, per course, or $145 for couples registering for the same course. Register online and pay with a credit card at simpsonu.edu/seniorschool, or fill out a paper registration form and pay with a check (mail to Simpson University for Seniors, 2211 College View Drive, Redding, CA 96003). For more information, call Glenn Schaefer at (530) 226-4146. Medical Coding Basics offered For any medical coding and or billing professionals preparing for the mandatory transition and implementation of ICD-10-CM on October 2014 Shasta College EWD is offering classes in Medical Coding Basics (ICD-10-CM and ICD-10PCS). Classes start Oct. 15 and will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays 6-8 p.m. at the Shasta College downtown campus in Redding. The course fee is $155 plus the cost of books — students must purchase their own books for this class. Average cost through McGraw-Hill for books would be $238 not including tax and shipping. Participants with all levels of coding knowledge, including beginning, will benefit from this sixweek course. You will work with a textbook and a coding manual, and have access to additional internet resources. Medical Coding Basics ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS will cover all you need to know about the new coding system that is replacing ICD-9-CM. For additional course or registration information visit www.shastacollege.edu, click on the "Community" tab at the top, scroll down to Community Education. Under "Community Education Classes", Medical Coding can be found under "Health Occupations and Training", Or call the Community Education office at (530) 339-3662 or email Comm-ed@shastacollege.edu. Community Clip? e-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com or Fax: 527-9251