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Break out the purple

I received a phone call from an elderly man I know. We hadn’t spoken in some time, since the day he found my home by accident and stopped to visit. Over the weekend, he needed a friendly ear willing to listen for a little while, and I was willing to give him some of my time. He was concerned about the treatment of elderly persons, something he thought I wouldn’t know anything about. His kids are about the same age as my brothers and me. I am a member of the DAHS Class of 1971. He may have a 15-year head start but I am learning as we go now. My mother told me this day would come, that ...

U.S. Surgeon General: Social media harming youth

I used to make sure my bed was beside the nightlight that was plugged into the wood trim that bordered the wall of the bedroom. The downside was that that particular spot was in line of the hallway and our parents’ bedroom door so I also had to listen for our parents to come up the stairs sometime between the weather report about 11:20 and when Johnny Carson began his monologue about 11:30 p.m. My bedtime was 9 p.m. until I finally convinced Mom to let me stay up to watch The Carol Burnett Show at 10 p.m. on Mondays. We didn’t have cell phones back then. We didn’t have Caller ID. ...

The Football Stadium, The City, The Schools, The Firestones

As we begin the next phase of the restoration of Firestone Park, the players will be changing. The current campaign to replace the aging football stadium (described later in this article) includes the Columbiana Schools, the Columbiana Booster Club, an interested major donor and the Firestone ...

Paranoia in older adults can be treated

Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life expectancy also brings an increase in the number of diseases, injuries and impairments that affect older adults. With this in mind, we at the Salem Visiting Angels office have created this series of articles to keep our older population and their families informed and to offer some practical advice for meeting the challenges faced by seniors and those who care for them. ——— While paranoia is not a common part of the aging process, some research ...

Counterfeit pills: Attack on children

We hear it all the time, how perilous are these times in which we live. Everyone needs to be alert, aware, and prepared in the event that a threat becomes a crisis. Today we are going to talk about something that started to appear in our fair state last summer: Rainbow fentanyl, the deadliest drug threat in the United States right now. Children are the targets. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost recently took to media like YouTube to reach out to the families and educators in the state about a dire advisory: Rainbow fentanyl is made to look like candy (SweeTarts.) It has been found in ...

Combat Medic: No brother or sister left behind

“The thunderous sound of the Black Hawk helicopters echoed through the night as we closed in on the enemy compound. Our mission was high-risk – a direct action raid to neutralize a high-value target associated with Al-Qaeda. As a special ops combat medic in the 75th Ranger Regiment, my role was multifaceted, providing medical care in the most intense and challenging environments imaginable,” writes Marshall Bahr, M.D. Dr. Bahr does not hold back, his story intense. Fast-roping, they rapidly deployed from their helicopters from 60 feet above ground, in full combat ...