(2008/12/02)
Everybody needs a little extra help this holiday season. Here are some fun ways to help out those less fortunate in our community:
(2008/12/02)
TODAY Top Notchmen, 2 to 6 p.m., Hilltop Ballroom, Fountain City, Wis., $8, (608) 687-8739.
(2008/12/02)
It’s that time of year again. Holiday decorations abound, to-do lists are made and we get into the spirit by baking, wrapping and vomiting.
(2008/12/02)
Folliculitis (folic-, hair follicle; -itis, inflammation) is one of those generic medical terms that is truly ecumenical and includes all kinds of follicular inflammation, known and unknown. Many of these are annoying but not injurious or scarring.
(2008/11/29)
If you dread getting your energy bill every month, there are several things you can do to ease the pain.
(2008/11/29)
NEW YORK Get ready for a pajama party. PJs look to be a popular gift this holiday season, as families struggling with high heating bills are bundling up at night, and older kids have turned sleep pants into cool daywear.
(2008/11/29)
Thanksgiving time is here. So it’s time to give thanks for something medical. This year it seemed to be a good idea to give thanks for a down-to-earth/part-of-the-earth subject, sulfur. Yes, sulfur.
(2008/11/29)
Just the other day, I asked my daughter if she was excited about the upcoming holiday.
(2008/11/29)
SUNDAY, NOV. 23 Winona Oratorio Chorus, 3 p.m., Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, $5 to $15.
(2008/11/22)
With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away, now is the time to start planning! BHG.com, the online companion to Better Home and Gardens magazine, offers this helpful checklist for planning a stress-free holiday.
(2008/11/22)
Sunday, Nov. 16 “Les Miserables,” 2 and 7:30 p.m., Arcadia (Wis.) High School, $7, $5 for students, (608) 323-3334.
(2008/11/22)
The holidays aren’t here yet, but they soon will be.
(2008/11/22)
So, now you’ve got that piece of history that copy of Nov. 5’s newspaper, or that magazine or poster and you want to preserve it, not only for yourself but for your children’s children. What do you do?
(2008/11/22)
During “flu” season, everyone’s fear and panic antennae are fully extended. With every sniffle, cough or hack, the question is, “Do I/you have “the flu?”
(2008/11/22)
Have you ever been amazed at your child’s accomplishments only to have your pride popped by someone who claims their kid can do it better? When telling Sally Superstar about your daughter’s recent achievement of riding a two-wheeler at the early age of 4, she scoffs and tells how her same-aged daughter completed RAGBRAI in record time. And while you know you shouldn’t compare children, you find yourself wondering if something is wrong with your child. Could it be her pedaling ability isn’t as quick as it should be? Does she have a gross motor delay that prevented her from balancing on a two-wheeler as early as Superstar did?
(2008/11/15)
To peek or not to peek, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of a sinking 401(k), or toss that quarterly statement straight in the trash?
(2008/11/15)
NEW YORK -- Money used to be like religion or sex: It wasn’t talked about in polite company.
(2008/11/15)
Sunday, Nov. 9 Orange Blossom Special, 2 to 6 p.m., Hilltop Ballroom, Fountain City, Wis., (608) 687-8739.
(2008/11/15)
If you have children, you’ve been embarrassed. How do you recover when your little one greets Granny with a warm hug and a gleeful “Hi Poopybutt!”? You explain to your mother-in-law that you do not refer to her as a Fartface at home but that Harry is just going through a phase. Her stern gaze suggests not only doesn’t she believe you, but she also thinks you have failed on the whole manners part of parenting. Try as you may to prove otherwise, Harry persists.
(2008/11/15)
It’s fall. The frost is on the pumpkin (actually just rain, with global warming); the zephyrs outside are becoming more frigid; the zephyrs generated from within you coming out your nasal passages are becoming copious and violent as you feel the first waves of the mucoid flow of your winter congestion and cold. And, it’s influenza vaccine/flu shot time. That annual practice has become almost as much of a ritual as the rest of the holiday season’s festivities.
(2008/11/08)
CHICAGO Victoria St. Gelais is panicky. Tami Brewster-Barnes feels the nerves in the pit of her stomach. Steven Valentine is losing sleep as his mood rises and falls with John McCain’s poll numbers.
(2008/11/08)
It’s hard to get away from talk of the election: It’s on the news. It’s on late-night comedy shows. It’s on campaign signs in front yards. It’s on
(2008/11/08)
SUNDAY, NOV. 2 Fall festival, St. Casimir Church hall, 626 W. Broadway.
(2008/11/08)
After explaining a rather common phenomenon to four or five patients in the past few days including my bride/editor, who had a bit of a rash (complicated medical term) that I could not diagnose brilliantly I thought it maybe would be useful to put it into print.
(2008/11/08)
When kids begin to take notice of the opposite sex, it’s usually pretty obvious. The guys finally become conscious of their moldy locker-room smell and trade it in for an overwhelming air of Axe. Girls respond by gassing themselves with Perfume de Asphyxiation. But, it’s not all bad, because kids finally begin brushing their teeth before toxic vapors seep from their mouths.
(2008/11/01)
Seventy-three-year-old Jack Kane rests in his wheelchair. He can’t walk and barely talks. His face is blank, gradually erased by Alzheimer’s, the disease that came on a decade ago.
(2008/11/01)
SUNDAY, OCT. 26 Lutefisk, lefse and meatball dinner, 11 a.m., American Legion Post 423, Houston, Minn.
(2008/11/01)
Folliculitis means inflammation of hair follicles, not always infection. But in discussing a hot tub/whirlpool folliculitis, there are bacteria, the growin’ kind, called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, or PA, which do infect follicles. This problem has been recognized since the mid 1970s, first in health-spa whirlpools and later in hotel and home-sweet-home hot tubs.
(2008/11/01)
Some of us look forward to Halloween even more than the kids. Sure, they have fun dressing up and coming home with a stash of my favorite treats, but it’s nothing compared with an excuse to let the cleaning go.
(2008/11/01)
Aedee Latten of Winona and Desiree Inglett of Fillmore County married Oct. 18.
(2008/11/01)
The following filed for divorce in the county of Winona:
(2008/10/25)
Frightened you’ll have nothing to do for Halloween? Fear not. There are lots of fun activities for little trick-or-treaters and big trick-or-treaters alike.
(2008/10/25)
TODAY Fall festival, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, 105 N. Mill St., Rushford, Minn., Swiss steak dinner 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., $8, $4 for ages 5 to 12.
(2008/10/25)
A myxoid (MIX-oid), or digital mucous cyst, is a benign bump that can occur on the top of the finger between the nail and last joint. Nobody knows exactly why it arises. It appears as a smooth, shiny, translucent, marble-like lump, and just sits there. Uncommonly, one may sneak out onto a toe.
(2008/10/25)
Most of us agree on the need to teach sexual awareness to our children. The thing is, most of them seem pretty aware already.
(2008/10/25)
Dear Ellen: As far as you are concerned, my wife and I are probably aliens, but we plead for your help!
(2008/10/25)
Heath Moe and Stephanie Aga of Winona married Oct. 10.
(2008/10/18)
PORTLAND, Ore. A buck will still buy you a bottle of shampoo, two rolls of paper towels or four containers of generic breath mints at some dollar stores. It even buys a bit of excitement in the hunt for a deal.
(2008/10/18)
Looking for something to do for Halloween? So are we.
(2008/10/18)
FRESNO, Calif. A glue gun, fabric, odds and ends plus a great imagination are all Tracy Bohren needs to create a photo-worthy Halloween costume. The Clovis, Calif., resident has been making homemade costumes for years.
(2008/10/18)
NEW YORK It’s scary how easy it is to recreate the thoroughly creepy look of The Joker.
(2008/10/18)
NEW YORK Planning to be Sarah Palin for Halloween but not sure how to do her emblematic ’do?
(2008/10/18)
NEW YORK Hollywood is going trick-or-treating again.
(2008/10/18)
ARVADA, Colo. (AP) Here’s a quick and inexpensive craft that will bring out the poster-paint Picasso in your kids. It uses objects you’d otherwise trash or recycle, like plastic milk jugs. You may have to spring for some paint.
(2008/10/18)
Now that kids are back in school, many of us are finally enjoying a little routine. Dragging kids out of bed earlier, chasing down school buses, packing lunches that kids forget to bring, and welcoming the sight of nightly homework are just a few of the day-to-day perks.
(2008/10/18)
Rabies vaccine is the only treatment possible to prevent the inevitable death from this viral infection that is inoculated/injected into skin with an infected animal’s bite. The infection then travels along the nerves centrally until it reaches brain tissue, and causes the centuries-old familiar symptoms and death.
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