Holidays are far from happy for family of spiteful woman
DEAR ABBY: With the holidays approaching, I am starting to become anxious. I have a family member who ruins every holiday she doesn’t have control over.
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Probiotics, gut bacteria and weight — what’s the connection?
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My friend insists that taking a probiotic supplement has helped her lose 50 pounds by keeping her gut bacteria in check. Will taking a probiotic in conjunction with a balanced diet and exercise help me lose weight? ANSWER: It is true that the gut bacterial population in people who are obese differs from the population in people who are lean.
Couple navigates emotional fallout after miscarriage
DEAR ABBY: My partner and I have just suffered a miscarriage. It was our first pregnancy, and even though it wasn’t planned, it was very much wanted.
EUGENIA LAST HOROSCOPES
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Temptation to overdo things is prevalent. Rethink your financial and professional positions and create a plan to help you stretch your money by doing only what’s necessary.
Symptoms of esophageal cancer can be easy to dismiss
Dear Doctors: A family friend is suddenly on hospice care because of esophageal cancer, which has spread to his lungs and liver. The thing is, he never even knew he had it.
Five things to do this weekend
1. Blue Springs City Theatre presents “Night of the Living Dead”: Oct. 6 to 9 and 14 to 16. This play honors a 1960s-era movie about six strangers in a lonely farmhouse, surrounded by brain-eating zombies. What could go wrong? The play reflects the original movie and the times in which it was made. The play is being presented at the Miller Theaters, 1901 Missouri 7, Blue Springs, 816-224-0500. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at Millertheatres.com/showtimes/. Further information can be found at https:// bluespringscitytheatre.com/ about-us.
Busy days of joy and worry and, now and then, miracles
What do you do when it seems there’s nothing you can do? I recently spent 10 days visiting family in the small Southern town where I grew up. We celebrated my sister’s birthday, told stories and ate a frightening lot of fried food.It was hard to say goodbye, to leave my sister in a nursing home, and my blind brother all alone in his apartment.
Son-in-law tired of man’s rude, insulting behavior
who lives out of state, regularly makes crude jokes and comments about his sex life or my sex life in my presence and in the presence of my wife, his wife and others. He once commented to me that he would be excited to see his daughter, my wife, in bed with a woman.
EUGENIA LAST HOROSCOPES
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Simplify your life. Stop the madness and start to put things in order.
Playful, loving Carlos needs a new home
Little dogs are always popular with adopters. They are popular with most families and are the first ones to get adopted in shelters.