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Stephanie Stricklen: August 2006 ArchivesYou want to know how most of these enlarged prostate problems get spotted? Ticked off wives. No joke. Most of the men with enlarged prostates are married and their wives go nuts when they have to get up 4 or 5 times a night to go to the bathroom. Finally the pester power works and the guys go see the doctor and get the diagnosis. By the way, frequent urination is one of the symptoms, men.. just keep that in mind... If you saw tonite's story you saw that most-clever-mosquito-trap that the guys and gals at Multnomah County Vector Control use to catch the little besky buggers ('little pesky buggers'? I sound like my grandma). The secret bait? Dry ice. But here's the thing.. once the dry ice lures them in by releasing the CO2 that they love, you need a secondary method to catch/contain them. VC (Vector Control) uses a buc... That's a debatable topic for sure, and one that I can't shed much light on considering I have no children and didn't play any sports as a kiddo. I was a total bookworm, so much so that my parents used to threaten to take away my library books if I didn't get my chores done. I got into competitve swimming in high school which I loved. I was a distance swimmer. Nothing like the feeling of sweating in the water. Yup, it totally happens and i... Okay, remember how in Star Trek Dr. McCoy could wave that scanner over someone and just know what was wrong? Well, back then things like MRI's and CT scans and other imaging tools that can visually dissect the body into paper thin slices didn't exist. And, I love that the CyberKnife inventor says Star Trek inspired him. No, I'm not a trekkie but I do think that's pretty sweet. Here's a link that explains MRI: He is! At least according to his BMI. What's your BMI? I'm 24.9 which puts me right at the cusp of being 'overweight'. I'm not worried about it (hence my willingness to share)... since my cholesterol is super low (like less than 110 overall), my blood pressure is good (120/80), and I am training for my second half marathon (logged 21 miles this week). Of course, I wish my pants were like one or two sizes smaller but in the big sche... If you have a gambling problem call this helpline: 1 (877) 2 STOP NOW. That's probably the most important thing I can share. I talked to Jeffrey Marotta, Ph.D. with the state. He's a gambling addiction expert who knows his stuff inside and out. I asked him who went into treatment more-- men or women. He said 10 years ago more men had a problem with gambling.. now that's changed so that in recovery programs they tend ... I want one of those forced air warming hospital gowns for my house. No more warming the freezing feet on poor John. In doing a little poking around on the internet I learned there are all different types of warming (and cooling) machines. There are machines that keep your body fluids at a certain temperature by warming them if they need it (it's like your blood flows through a tube/bag that gets warmed by a highly specialized machine... Happy Tuesday!! I'm going to Keller Auditorium to see Little Women tonite so I'm pretty thrilled that I'm getting off work on time tonite. I originally chased a different story than the Herceptin story, but it fell through. I'd tell ya all about it, but I'm "efforting" it for tomorrow. In the meantime, here is additional information on the Herceptin study out of Texas. By the way, the doctor I interviewed for the story (Dr. Chui) h... I worked on special reports today so the producer created a little medical segment which I'm getting ready to do here in about a half hour. One of the stories is interesting: Kids who spent more time with mom weigh less and kids who spend more time with dad weigh more. Here is a link to the full report.. it's a WHOPPER at more than 200 pages, but we're really only interested in the summary/conclusions which you can find right there i...
So, my Thursday 5pm story on the little portable defibrillators mentioned there is a difference between sudden cardiac arrest and a heart attack. Given how many American's die from sudden cardiac arrest (330,000 to 335,000 a year) and given how many people have cardiovascular disease, it's important to know the difference. Ta Daaa! Well.. it's 5:43pm and I think the magical blog fairies have fixed our glitch uploading the blogs. Let's see if this works: Today's topics: -- Parkinson's First, the most important part: Parkinson'... That's it. I'm done. Everything I like to eat and drink is pretty much bad for me. Next they'll tell me about the hidden dangers of blueberries, or what's in strawberries that's silently screwing up my health. Okay, I'm totally overdoing it, but you get my point. That's why when I pitched this story on how quickly one meal high in saturated fats can affect your health I was truthfully a little bummed to hear th... Okay, just in case you missed it-- here is the dementia risk test we came up with. Answer yes or no to the following questions: Are you overweight? The more "yes" answers you give.. the greater your risk for dementia. Of course, as we mentioned at 5pm.. these risk factors... That's what it sounded like to me. No, I didn't get shot. Someone about 2 blocks from our live truck fired off 5 shots Sunday night. I got called into work and was putting together my 10pm story when I turned to the phojo I was working with and asked him if he heard gunfire. He was knee-deep in editing and heard nothing. No one around me seemed concerned.. and there were hundreds of people out for the impromptu street party on MLK.... Update: No.. none of us in the studio knew there was a black hole in my story. It was a problem actually unrelated to the story that happened in a part of the station we call master control. We watched it in the studio just fine. Had I known I would have said something... Sorry!! Allright. Lots of ground to cover. First: What's your food weakness?? Email me: sstricklen@kgw.com Mine is..... peanut butter. How weird is that?!! It's not cookies or ice cream or even potato chips (unless they are salt and vinegar.. then I'm hooked) but peanut butter. John has had to hide it in the house so I don't eat it all. It makes great camping food but is definitely o... Hey there.. Joaner wrote me and asked: Hi Stephanie; Ask and ye shall receive!! The breathing/high blood pressure story will run at noon today (Wednesday) if you want to check it out. Here is some... Wow. Anyone see the 5pm?? That was sooo not fun. And I thought my day sucked *before*. Honestly, all you can do is laugh and let it go. It's the nature of live TV. Stuff happens, stories crash mid-playback, and you just have to hope you have your wits about you enough to recover unexpectedly on-air. Alright, I'm out of here. Going to practice some of that "slow-breathing" at home. Email me: >> Continue reading: Yeah, sorry to be so indelicate about, but it did. I tried to work on this great story in Vanouver and called multiple times only to never even get one return phone call from the business. We pulled the plug and switched me to a different story at 12:30pm. I contacted a PR gal with a local hospital to try and find a doctor to talk about this hypertension/breathing story. She worked really hard to line someone up but got sho... |
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