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Featuring:

1. Family Tip - No bath breaks allowed
2. Light & Easy - Does Fido have issues?
3. Just the facts - Caffeine & Cars
4. Question-of-the-month - Finding a new doctor in town
5. Feature Article - Changing Places
6. Late Breaking Consumer & Natural Health News
7. Jeepers Creepers - We need your old peepers! 
8. Health Department Updates 
9. Community Calendar - Wazzup 'round town?

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1. Family Tips:

Never take a bath break. When you bathe your baby, don't answer
the phone unless there's a portable one right next to you. An infant 
can drown in seconds if left unattended.

www.Parents.com 

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2. Light & Easy: Does Fido have issues?
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/4.19.shtml

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3. Just the facts

It's estimated that drowsy drivers cause at least 100,000 
car accidents each year.

Nearly 80% of all Americans are hooked on caffeine, the 
country's #1 addiction.

www.ApplesForHealth.com 

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4. Our online "Question-of-the-Month"!

What key factor do you rely upon when selecting a new doctor in town?

More than 73,000 nationwide have already told us 
what they think. Now it's your turn.
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/survey.shtml

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5. The Doctor's Office - James D. Eckert, D.C. - Editor
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/doctorsoffice.shtml 

Changing Places…
Margaret Croney, MSW

They are going about their lives my parents. They are old; my 
mother is frail and my father protective of her. They live in 
their big house in the woods by a lake in the country, far from 
the local hospital and doctors. 

They make me proud, they make me scared, they make me 
afraid and they make me sad. Life is running swiftly by 
and each time I see them they are a little older, a little 
less determined and a little more dependent. We are 
changing places. They used to keep me safe from harm, 
watch me grow, and care for me. Now I try to keep 
them safe harm, watch them grow older and care for them. 

My parents are independent, strong willed and private. They 
do not want strangers in their home. They care for each other. 
They live a day-to-day routine that changes as the seasons do. 
They blossom in the spring and summer, they settle down in the 
fall to wait the winter. 

The winter is hard on them. They become isolated in the house 
in the county, the storms of snow too much to cope with; driving 
too difficult and stressful. Ice is to be feared. 

A fall, a broken bone can change the way they live. They wait 
and watch the roads, looking for the snowplow so they can go 
out. They go out to the doctors, out to the bakery, just out to 
have a coffee at the local donut shop. 

They depend on each other and on me, just as I once depended 
on them. We do not talk about this change in dependency. It is 
not acknowledged it is just there. The end is getting near. A 
few years, a few months, the autumn of their lives is past, they 
are in the winter. My mother questions me about my older clients. 
I understand the questions, she is checking, measuring and 
comparing. She offers comments but never reveals her thoughts. 
She wonders and questions if my clients have this symptom or 
that problem.

They are amazing, and unique. They are my parents. I got them 
at birth and they are my link to my past. They are the only people 
that have known me throughout my life, from the time my mother 
was aware of her pregnancy until this moment, they have been 
there. They loved me, cared for me, watched out for me and kept 
harm from me. They struggled and strove after the war to raise 
their family. They taught values and planted the views and 
traits that have helped me through life. They taught me to care, 
to love, to watch, now I want to keep harm from them.

Our parents have been there for us, with us, they are in our minds, 
in our lives, sometimes in our way. They have influenced us, they 
have made us who we are, and what we are,. More importantly 
we do not know the impact they have had on our lives and we 
will not know until they are gone.

Slowly we are changing places. I watch, I worry, I care. 
I am quietly parenting.

Margaret Croney, MSW.
Croney, Brown & Jolly, Inc.
www.cbjgeriatrics.com 

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6. Healthy Scoop: Check out the latest in Natural & Consumer Health News
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/healthy_scoop.shtml 

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7. Jeepers Creepers! We Need Your Old Peepers! Join Sight Night 2002

If you feel Halloween involves more "getting than giving" why not 
involve your little ghouls and goblins in a trick-or-treat project 
that howls with the spirit of generosity? 

Trick-or-treat night is fourth annual Sight Night for thousands of 
scout troops, community organizations and neighborhood kids 
across America. You can join this frightfully fun volunteer program 
that invites kids of all ages to collect used glasses for the needy
in developing countries. 

The used glasses collected on Sight Night will be repaired, classified 
by prescription and hand-delivered by LensCrafters and Lions 
Club volunteers to people in places like Bolivia, Laos, Tunisia 
and Mexico. In some developing countries, a new pair of glasses 
may cost up to an entire month's wages, and millions in the world 
cannot afford see clearly. That's why it's important to collect as 
many glasses as possible on Sight Night!

Get Involved - It's So Easy, It's Scary!
Encourage your neighbors and friends to clear out those cobwebs 
and dig up used glasses! All shapes and sizes of eyeglasses and 
sunglasses are welcome for children and adults, both prescription 
and non-prescription. 

For a fun collection kit, visit www.sightnight.org, or call toll free 
877-605-4242. Quantities are limited. One kit per group, please.

After Sight Night, just drop off your used glasses at LensCrafters or 
a Lions club. How frightfully simple! 

Sight Night is part of Give the Gift of Sight, a family of charitable 
program that provides free eye care to people in communities across 
the US, Canada and developing countries. Since 1988, LensCrafters and 
Lions club volunteers have provided eye care to more than 2 million 
people in need around the world.

Editor's Note: Thank you LensCrafters (www.LensCrafters.com) and
Lions Club, International (www.lionsclubs.org/EN/index.shtml)

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8. Health Departments Updates

Injuries & Accidents: Injury prevention for teens
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/7.11.shtml
HealthyLink.net

Men's Health: Girls to women, how dads can help
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/2.5.shtml
Mothering.com

Dentistry & Orthodontics: Brushing and flossing your kid's teeth
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/8.40.shtml
University of Pennsylvania Dental School of Medicine

Diet & Nutrition: 10 reasons diets fail
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/11.53.shtml
Pat Barone - Trainer & Coach

Chiropractic: Chiropractic and the NFL
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/6.31.shtml 
ChiroWeb.com

Exercise & Fitness: Exercise - A mood enhancer
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/3.34.shtml
Marjie Gilliam 

Family Medicine: How good vs. bad thoughts affect sleep
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/15.33.shtml
About.com

Chiropractic Pediatrics: De-stressing kids today
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/10.26.shtml
Healthology.com

Heart & Circulation: New help for vein problems
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/5.22.shtml
Geoffrey L. Risley , MD, FACS

Pediatrics & Adolescence: How to wrangle that surly teen
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/30.46.shtml
WellJournal.com

Podiatry: Neuroma - What are they?
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/33.14.shtml
PodiatryNetwork.com

Sports Injuries: Treating common ankle sprains
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/39.24.shtml
Healthology.com 

Veterinary Medicine: Dental health for pets 
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/4.18.shtml
Joseph A. Tomes, DVM

Women's Health: Weight gain during pregnancy
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/med_depts/41.44.shtml
MarchOfDimes.com

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9. Community Calendar: Wazzup 'round town
http://www.PortlandHealth.org/cgi-bin/calendar.pl 

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then just e-mail us all the particulars, and we will gladly post it. 

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