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2B Daily News – Thursday, November 28, 2013 FEATURES Slower heart rate normal for fit people cells (called the DEAR DOCbundle of His) that TOR K: Last time is located between I went to the docthe ventricles (the tor, my heart rate heart's lower was 55 beats per chambers). From minute. What there, the signal could be causing travels to the musmy slow heartcular walls of the beat? Is it dangerDr. K ventricles, which ous? respond to the sigDEAR READby Anthony L. ER: A normal Komaroff, M.D. nal by pumping. (I've put an illusheart rate at rest is between 60 and 100 beats tration of this process on per minute. A slow heart my website, AskDocrate, of less than 60 beats torK.com.) A problem in the sinus per minute, is called bradycardia. You have just node can cause bradycardia. Or it can result when a slight bradycardia. Bradycardia can be nor- signals don't properly pass mal if you're a well-condi- through the A-V node and tioned athlete. A patient of bundle of His. Bradycarmine bicycles 50 miles a dia also can be a side week and has a resting effect of certain medicaheart rate of 50. Regular tions. Treatment depends on exercise improves the heart's ability to pump what is causing the bradyblood efficiently. As a cardia. If your heartbeat is result, the heart doesn't slow because you're a need to beat as often to healthy athlete, you probably don't need treatment. supply the body's needs. But sometimes brady- Most people don't need cardia is caused by an treatment unless they have abnormal heart condition. bothersome symptoms. To understand what can go When I see a patient with wrong, you need to under- an unusually slow pulse at stand how the heart is sup- rest, I often have him walk up two flights of stairs. If posed to work. The heart is a fist-sized his heart is healthy, the muscle. It has four cham- heart rate will jump in bers, each with walls of response to exercise. Bradycardia can be muscle. Each chamber pumps when the muscle of caused by certain medithe chamber gets an elec- cines (the most common of which are beta-blocktrical signal to do so. When everything is ers), or by certain diseases working properly, an elec- (such as an underactive trical signal initiates a thyroid, or hypothyheartbeat. This signal roidism). Bradycardia resulting comes from the heart's sinus node, located in the from certain cardiac right atrium (one of the arrhythmias can be treattwo upper chambers of the ed with a permanent pacemaker. When implanted heart, the atria). From the sinus node, in the body, this device electrical the signal travels through generates bundles of cells that carry impulses that regulate the the signals as if they were heartbeat. When it's abnormal, a a copper wire. The signal first travels to the atrioven- slow heart rate almost tricular (A-V) node, locat- always has an effective treatment. But I'll bet it's ed between the atria. Then the signal travels not abnormal in you, just through another bundle of healthy. Taxpayers' rights hearing The Franchise Tax Board (FTB) invites the public to attend its annual Taxpayers' Bill of Rights hearing next week. The hearing will occur during FTB's meeting scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4, at Gerald H. Goldberg Auditorium, 9646 Butterfield Way, Sacramento. The hearing provides taxpayers and tax practitioners a chance to present proposals to change existing state income tax laws and improve FTB's publications or services. FTB requests that anyone planning to make presentations submit a written statement before the hearing. Recommended changes to the tax laws should include the appropriate sections of the California Revenue and Taxation Code and the proposed change. Send statements to Taxpayer Advocate, PO Box 1468, Rancho Cordova CA 95812-1468; fax to 916 843-6022 or send by email to Taxpayer.Advocate@ftb.ca.gov. For more information, including the meeting agenda,check FTB's Website at ftb.ca.gov. A Thanksgiving message for readers To gladden every morrow. We ought to make the moments notes Of happy, glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days a silent phrase Of music we are living. And so the theme should swell and grow As weeks and months pass o'er us, And rise sublime at this good time, A grand Thanksgiving chorus. Annie's Snippet (credit the late Johnny Carson): Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. They hang about us all Dear Readers: Happy the day, Thanksgiving! We hope Our time from pleasure you are fortunate enough to stealing. be spending the holiday So unobtrusive many a with family and friends. joy And our personal thanks to We pass by and forget it, those who are spending the But worry strives to own day volunteering at shelters our lives, and soup kitchens, or going And conquers if we let it. to a nearby nursing home Annie's There's not a day in all and bringing conversation the year and attention to the resiBut holds some hidden dents. Bless you for your by Kathy Mitchell kindness and generosity. and Marcy Sugar pleasure, And, looking back, joys Here is a poem that capoft appear tures the spirit of the day: To brim the past's wide measure. ''Thanksgiving'' by Ella WheelBut blessings are like friends, I er Wilcox (1850-1919) We walk on starry fields of white hold, Who love and labour near us. And do not see the daisies, We ought to raise our notes of For blessings common in our praise sight While living hearts can hear us. We rarely offer praises. Full many a blessing wears the We sigh for some supreme guise delight Of worry or of trouble; To crown our lives with splenFar-seeing is the soul, and wise, dour, Who knows the mask is double. And quite ignore our daily store But he who has the faith and Of pleasures sweet and tender. Our cares are bold and push their strength To thank his God for sorrow way Has found a joy without alloy Upon our thought and feeling; Mailbox 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. A simple change can stop the spending cycle Sometimes, just a simple change in the way we do things can result in significant savings over time. Take the way you wash your clothes. I have to admit to using lots of cycles on my washer just because they're there. And every cycle adds more time and uses more resources. Today's first reader suggests a simple way to reduce the resources without sacrificing good results. Great idea, Natalie! Pre-soak. Instead of using the pre-soak and pre-wash cycle on your washing machine, use the regular cycle but turn it off after the clothes agitate after a few minutes. Let them soak an hour or overnight and then resume the cycle. This way, you save water and electricity, but achieve the same result. -Natalie H. DIY pet care products. Use Murphy's Oil Soap (available in grocery stores) on your pet's dry, itchy or flea-allergy skin. It is gentle and allvegetable. Especially good for Shar Pei's, with all of their skin problems. For an effective flea dip, boil orange and lemon peels in water. Cool and use for pet rinse or dip. Smells nice and fresh. You can also slice citrus and rub the fruit into the dog's fur. The bugs will keel over from the smell. -- Kathleen H. Painted paneling. We moved into a house that had a lot of paneling. I wanted to give the rooms a new look, but a total remodel was not in our budget. My solution was to paint the paneling. The first step bounty. Items close to the expirawas to use a paint deglosser, tion date that cannot be consumed which is only necessary if within 24 hours should be frozen. the paneling has a high-gloss -- Ray D. Bakery bargains. Find an outlet finish, followed by a coat of (check the phone book) primer and then where bakeries unload the pain. I was very day's overproduction. pleased with the You'll find high-quality, result. That was a relafresh products at rock-bottively inexpensive way to tom prices. Time your trip remodel several rooms. for sale day and save even - Beth N. more! Bakery items freeze Gift of flannel. Needwell, so stock up. -- Reese ing a Christmas gift for a P. neighbor, I bought flanCreative giving. When nel at the fabric store and local grocery stores have a made a nice pair of flanMary two-for-one special, I purnel pillowcases. A simple chase one for myself and sewing project makes a save the free one to give to much appreciated gift. a food bank or charitable Flannel pillowcases are cause. Of course, this quite luxurious. -- Lydie works only on canned or P. (Here's a link to a other non-perishable magical method for makfoods. I find that passing ing beautiful pillowcases: EverydayCheapskate.com/pil- my savings on to someone else is an effective way I can give back on lowcase) Window cleaning. Use newspa- my limited income. -- Irene S. per printed in black ink only (not Mary invites questions at colored ink) and window cleaner for crystal clear windows. There's mary@everydaycheapskate.com, no lint or streaks, and when the or c/o Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. newspaper dries, you can still recy- Box 2099, Cypress, CA 90630. This column will answer questions cle it. -- Deborah F. Be an early bird. Supermarket of general interest, but letters meat managers chop as much as cannot be answered individually. 50 percent from the original price Mary Hunt is the founder of a of meat, fish and poultry when www.DebtProofLiving.com, expiration dates are near. Make personal finance member website friends with store personnel so and the author of "7 Money Rules you'll be first in line to grab the for Life," released in 2012. Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Caroling for the Adobe The Ide Adobe Interpretive Association will be hosting a Christmas Caroling event on Saturday, Dec. 14. Join the association in caroling to invite the community to the Pioneer Christmas Party, which will be 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21. The two-part event will start at 3 p.m. with a walk through the downtown business area starting on Main Street and heading up to Walnut Street. Following a break for dinner, the group will resume its tour of carol singing in neighborhoods around Red Bluff and visit a few nursing and assisted living homes to sing a few carols. All carolers will dress in period costumes, which will be available at Ide Adobe. The All musical abilities are welcome. A cheerful attitude, a love of Christmas music and the willingness to spread cheer to the community are all that is required. A meeting to gauge interest in caroling, plan the second half of caroling and to practice carols will take place on Sunday, Dec. 8, but is not a requirement for coming to the event. RSVP for caroling or get more information by calling the park at 5298599 or send an email to ideadobe@gmail.com. Lassen Forest offices closed Thanksgiving SUSANVILLE – Lassen National Forest offices will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28, in observance of the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Forest offices will resume normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 29. 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