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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, May 1, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Nurse knocked into emotional tailspin by cancer diagnosis FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE reach out. My thoughts are with you. Dear Abby: A few weeks ago, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon Dear Abby: My in-laws take cancer. I’m only 34. That’s what I keep frequent vacations and ask my repeating to myself — I’m only 34. I husband to dog-sit. He always says feel lost. I’m mad at God and have yes. They are gone seven to 10 days lost my faith. I keep wondering “Why at a time and I don’t think we should me?” “Why my family AGAIN?” feel obligated to always agree. My “Why stage 4?” I cry alone in an husband says that since we’re family empty house because I don’t want to it’s our duty. Jeanne stress out my kids and my husband. Abby, they can well afford to Phillips The support groups are 30 minutes Advice kennel their dogs, and I don’t think away and feature mostly breast cancer they’d be offended if we said no. But patients and survivors. I’m a nurse, my husband thinks I’m heartless for and I feel out of control. All my decisions are being OK with his parents’ dogs staying at a being made when I’m unconscious or barely kennel for so long. I maintain that it’s not my out of anesthesia. My world has been turned problem. upside down. I’m not hanging on well at all. This disagreement comes up every two to Because my control is slipping, I have lost three months (every time we have the dogs). my grasp on the person I once was. I was a strong woman. I don’t know what to do. I am not willing to do this anymore. I’m not sure how to discuss this topic because, so far, Help! — Nurse Who Is Now The Patient Dear Nurse: Right now you are feeling nothing I have said has gotten me results. vulnerable, which, under the circumstances, We already have dogs of our own, and kids is normal. You should not be crying alone or as well, and the additional dogs disrupt our isolating yourself as you have been doing. routine. — Free Pet Sitter Dear Sitter: For your in-laws to expect You need more emotional support than the you to take care of their dogs every time support group you belong to can give. It may help you to contact the American they decide to leave town seems excessive. Cancer Society because it provides support However, I can understand why they would and information 24 hours a day, 365 days a prefer not to kennel the dogs if they can leave year to those facing cancer. Trained cancer them in a home environment instead. Because it bothers you, rather than try to specialists are available via phone or live chat and can offer you not only accurate, dissuade your husband from being so agree- up-to-date information, but also connect you able, tell him he can dog-sit at his parents’ with valuable services and resources. The house, or from the moment the dogs arrive phone number to call is (800) 227-2345, and they will be his sole responsibility. And then the website is cancer.org. Please don’t wait to stick to it. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 30-May 1, 1918 Because it wounds the feelings of native Italians, Belgians and others born in some of the allied countries to see only the British and French flags displayed with the Amer- ican flag on public occasions, the executive committee of the Umatilla County Patriotic Service League yesterday afternoon adopted a resolution urging that all committees on arrangements for celebrations and public gatherings use only the American flag or, if the colors of any of our allies are used, that the flags of all of the allied nations, so far as obtainable, be used. The same resolution requests local dealers to carry the flags of all the allied nations, some 14 in number. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 30-May 1, 1968 A 12-hour search by some 60 persons ended at 9 Sunday morning with the safe arrival of a 14-year-old girl at a ranch home near Heppner. The search was organized when Orville Cutsforth reported Saturday night that his daughter, Lisa, was missing from the family cabin at Cutsforth Park. One of the volunteers rode horseback in the search, but most walked over the rough country looking for the girl. Some of the searchers were out all night. Lisa said she became lost while hunting ladybugs. She finally found the road and hitched a ride. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian April 30-May 1, 1993 The rarity of a Umatilla girl’s bone marrow disease is making it hard for her family to find the money to pay for her treatment. Doctors believe the only chance to save Melissa Masterson’s life is a bone marrow transplant. She was diagnosed with bone marrow aplasia after becoming ill last Christmas. Her mother, Lori Masterson, hopes to set up a fund-raising organization for her daughter and other people in the Hermiston area who need expensive treatments to battle rare diseases. The chances of finding a donor to match Melissa’s blood type and characteristics are slim, doctors have said. But her family remains optimistic a donor can be found and the transplant will work. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 121st day of 2018. There are 244 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey gave the command, “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley,” as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish squadron in Manila Bay during the Span- ish-American War. On this date: In 1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect. In 1786, Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro” premiered in Vienna. In 1893, the World’s Columbian Exposition, cele- brating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the Western Hemisphere, opened to the public in Chicago, beginning a six-month run. In 1918, TV personality Jack Paar, the second host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,” was born in Canton, Ohio. In 1931, New York’s 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated. Singer Kate Smith made her debut on CBS Radio on her 24th birthday. In 1941, the Orson Welles motion picture “Citizen Kane” premiered in New York. In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. In 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. (They divorced in 1973.) Anastasio Somoza Debayle became president of Nicaragua. In 1978, Ernest Morial was inaugurated as the first black mayor of New Orleans. In 1982, the World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, was opened by President Ronald Reagan. In 1998, Eldridge Cleaver, the fiery Black Panther leader who later renounced his past and became a Republican, died in Pomona, California, at age 62. Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the 1994 genocide of more than half a million Tutsis. (Kambanda was later sentenced to life in prison.) In 2011, President Barack Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden during a U.S. commando operation (because of the time differ- ence, it was early May 2 in Pakistan, where the al-Qaida leader met his end). Today’s Birthdays: Singer Judy Collins is 79. Actor Stephen Macht is 76. Singer Rita Coolidge is 73. Pop singer Nick Fortuna (The Buckinghams) is 72. Actor-director Douglas Barr is 69. Actor Dann Florek is 67. Singer-songwriter Ray Parker Jr. is 64. Actor Byron Stewart is 62. Hall of Fame jockey Steve Cauthen is 58. Actress Maia Morgenstern is 56. Actor Scott Coffey is 54. Country singer Wayne Hancock is 53. Actor Charlie Schlatter is 52. Country singer Tim McGraw is 51. Rock musician Johnny Colt is 50. Rock musician D’Arcy is 50. PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
