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8A Daily News – Saturday, November 30, 2013 FEATURES Shortness of breath could be serious coughing DEAR DOCWhen these TOR K: I somesymptoms occur times get short of along with unusubreath. Should I al shortness of worry that it's seribreath, you should ous? contact your docDEAR READtor promptly. ER: Shortness of They raise the breath is often no Dr. K likelihood you big deal. It's normay be having a mal to be short of by Anthony L. breath for a little Komaroff, M.D. serious, even lifethreatening, probwhile after strenuous exercise or at high lem: a heart attack, heart altitudes. Some people failure, pneumonia, a breathe hard when they're blood clot in the lungs anxious. When should you (pulmonary embolism) or worry that shortness of an asthma attack. Before you call your breath might indicate a serious heart or lung con- doctor for shortness of breath, be prepared to dition? I tell my patients that answer the following they know their own bod- questions. They will help ies a lot better than I do. your doctor assess the Their bodies are sending urgency of your situation. their brains signals every If your doctor doesn't ask minute. If they think they these questions, volunteer are getting short of breath the information: (1) Is there chest pain, in situations that never made them short of breath and what does it feel like? Is it a sharp and stabbing before, that's a red flag. Maybe they have to pain? Or does it feel more stop to catch their breath like a dull pressure? Does after climbing one flight it travel anywhere (like of stairs, and that never into your neck, jaw, shoulused to happen. Maybe der, arm or back)? (2) Are you sweating they sometimes feel winded even when they've just profusely? (3) Do you have troubeen sitting, and that never used to happen. ble breathing when you lie Maybe they suddenly feel down? (4) Are your legs or short of breath for no apparent reason. The key ankles swollen? (5) Do you have a question to ask yourself: Is this new for you? If so, cough or fever? (6) How fast are you talk to your doctor. There still may not be a serious breathing? You don't want to get underlying problem, but you need to be sure of terrified every time you have a potentially serious that. The other really impor- symptom. But you also tant question to ask your- don't want to miss an self when you become early signal that someunusually short of breath thing serious may be is whether you are also wrong. You need to know experiencing other worri- when, and when not, to worry. some symptoms: — Chest pain or disDr. Komaroff is a comfort — Swollen ankles and physician and professor at Harvard Medical feet School. To send — Fever questions, go to — Unusual fatigue or — Painful cough with AskDoctorK.com, blood or yellow, green or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second reddish mucus — Wheezing and Floor, Boston, MA 02115. A novel idea for a holiday gift By Jennifer Cooper Social Security Manager in Redding Do you have family members or friends on your gift list this holiday season? And are you once again wondering what to give them? Well, you might think about giving them something that will help them for years to come — assistance in creating their own my Social Security account. It's imaginative, practical, and potentially very valuable. Here's why. For many people, there is no gift as precious as time. And when they weigh the value of time spent waiting in line in a government office, or time spent with friends and family after quickly conducting Social Security business online, they will be grateful indeed. And the gift of helping them apply for a my Social Security account has all the variety of a holiday candy sampler. After creating a my Social Security account at www.socialsecurity.gov, a person can: • get an instant, personalized estimate of future Social Security benefits; • apply for retirement, disability, spouse's, and Medicare benefits; • check the status of a benefit application; • change address and phone number, if receiving monthly Social Security benefits; • sign-up for direct deposit of Social Security benefits; • use our benefit planners to help better understand Social Security options when planning for a financial future; • request a replacement Medicare card; and • apply for Extra Help with Medicare prescription drug costs. That's a pretty impressive package for the holiday gift-giving list. So be creative. Visit www.socialsecurity.gov and share the gift of potential time-saved with a relative or friend. Need a Physician? Doctors who listen ... Doctors who care. A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE Call toll free 888.628.1948 www.redbluff.mercy.org Previous heartbreak prevents intimacy making such cards for more Dear Annie: I have been than 20 years. I consider with the same woman for them an extension of her six years. Now she has personality and spirit. For a asked me to marry her. We long time, I saved the cards get along terrifically, but in a box. Recently, I took when it comes to bedtime, them out, selected a few of there is no closeness. She my favorites and had them says she can't cuddle with cropped, matted and framed me because she's been hurt so many times in the past. Annie's in a collage that I hung in my home office. Whenever I We sleep with her three big see it, I smile and remember dogs in between us. This doesn't seem fair to by Kathy Mitchell happy times in our friendme. If you're in love, isn't it and Marcy Sugar ship. My friend sends me new only natural to want to hold and cuddle the one you marry? I'm cards every year. I display them terrified of making the wrong temporarily and then put them into choice. Please help. — No Cuddles the box. Sometime in the future, I will once again go through the in California Dear California: Not everyone process of having my favorites likes to cuddle, but someone who framed and hung in a space that puts three dogs between you in bed needs brightening somewhere in my isn't even trying. More importantly, home. When my friend found out what you need to be compatible on this issue. If your girlfriend has been so I had done, it sent her over the moon hurt in the past that she cannot show with happiness — the same way her affection, suggest that she get coun- thoughtfulness in creating and sendseling. Otherwise, we don't recom- ing the cards makes me feel. — mend you spend the rest of your life Lucky Recipient Dear Lucky: We received severwishing things were different with your partner. And should you al suggestions from readers who decide she's not the one, please came up with ways to preserve have the decency to tell her so you these artistic cards without feeling overwhelmed. Read on: both can move on. From New York: I am a card Dear Annie: I would like to offer a possible solution to ''No maker. I hope the people to whom I Hallmark,'' whose sister makes send my works of art feel the love cards that are a work of art and need and good wishes glued and stamped to be displayed. Now she's inundat- on that card stock. Here is another ed with lovely cards and doesn't option for what to do with the cards after the recipient has finished know what to do with them. I have a dear friend who has been enjoying them: Offer to give them Mailbox back to the sender. I keep a scrapbook of my art and often look back at previous work to get ideas for new cards. I certainly would take my cards back. Perhaps No Hallmark's sister will, too. I bet she would be touched by the fact that the cards are still around after all these years. Sierra Vista, Ariz: ''No Hallmark'' could donate those cards to a charity, such as St. Jude's Children's Ranch (100 St. Jude's Blvd., Boulder City, NV 89005). The Ranch cares for children from abusive homes, and the kids earn money by recycling used cards into new ones and selling them. California: ''No Hallmark'' could scan those beautiful cards and save them digitally. That way, she keeps the artwork and sentiments, but doesn't have to store the physical paper. And she also could easily share them with others. She could even make a virtual album. Louisville: My mother takes cards that she really likes and glues the front to a plain gift bag so the card continues ''giving its gift.'' I liked the idea enough to start doing it myself. 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. Native American tradition in the modern world As the days shorten and turn colder, it's time to curl up on the couch with a good book and a warm mug of tea. In Tehama County, with the help of the Tehama County Arts Council and the Tehama County Library, people are turning to Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine as their literary companion. A novel-in-stories about passion, family, and the importance of cultural identity, Love Medicine examines the struggle to balance Native American tradition with the modern world. Using an eclectic range of comic and tragic voices, Louise Erdrich leads the reader through the interwoven lives of two Chippewa families living in North Dakota. This modern classic is an often sad, sometimes funny look at the ways family and tradition bind us together. Love Medicine is the official selection of the Tehama Big Read, a local endeavor of a National Endowment for the Arts program in partnership with Arts Midwest. It is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. Tehama County is one of 77 communities across the country participating in The Big Read. Copies of Love Medicine are book group chooses to read Love available at all branches of the Medicine. Complementary to our Tehama County Library, discussions of Love Medias are free reader's guides, cine will be a free screening an audio guide and of Paskenta: Nomlaqa Boda. bookmarks. ComThis documentary is a story munity members of identity, struggle and are encouraged resilience as the local Nomto gather in laki face down the U.S. c o nv e r s a t i o n Congress to successfully around the book, reclaim their history, restore either by forming their their sovereignty, and reviown book groups or talize the culture of a disjoining one of the public placed tribe, building a powbook discussions organized by the Tehama Melissa erful vision for the future. Paskenta: Nomlaqa Boda County Arts Council and will screen at 6:30 p.m. at the library. the Performing Arts Center Those who fall in love at Red Bluff High School on with Love Medicine may be tempted to read other works by Monday, Dec. 2. The public is welLouise Erdrich, including The come and encouraged to attend this Round House, the 2012 National award-winning film of local signifiBook Award winner, which have cance. The Big Read and screening of also been purchased for the Tehama County Library through The Big Paskenta: Nomlaqa Boda are examRead grant. The Birchbark Series ples of how the Tehama County Arts speaks to young readers and is avail- Council is incorporating the goals of Tehama Reads and Expect More able for check out. To create a new book discussion Tehama into our programming. To and receive free materials, simply learn more about how we support the email tehamabigread@gmail.com. arts in our community, visit To find a list of locally organized dis- www.tehamaarts.org. cussions, visit www.neabigread.org Melissa Mendonca is and navigate through Communities to Tehama County. Please notify the chairwoman of the Tehama County Tehama County Arts Council if your Arts Council. Mendonca Girls Inc. names new executive director Girls Incorporated of north state area's lakes, the Northern Sacramento hiking, camping and fishing. 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