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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, August 3, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Diabetic’s monitor is more
than an office annoyance
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
Dear Abby: “Disturbed in
hand, people with diabetes — and
other chronic diseases — need a
Texas” (June 5) was annoyed by
little understanding, too. Life can
the sound of a diabetic co-work-
er’s “beeper” going off frequently.
get very hard. Sometimes the best
“Disturbed” may not fully under-
way to achieve understanding is
stand this situation. The “beeper”
to educate, which I’m hoping to do
is a continuous glucose monitor
with this submission. Thanks, Abby.
— Sensitive in South Dakota
(CGM), which alerts insulin-de-
pendent diabetics to any blood sugar
Dear Sensitive: No, dear reader,
Jeanne
levels that are out of range. Swift
thank you for taking the time to
Phillips
action may be required to correct
explain this to me and my readers.
ADVICE
these blood sugars, and it’s vital that
I now have a better understanding
the diabetic receive these alerts.
about how complicated a process
Yes, if possible, the CGM should
managing diabetes can be. And I
be put on vibrate in public settings so as not
agree that sometimes it’s important to cut a
little slack for others.
to disturb others. But in some situations, it’s
not possible or wise. Neuropathy can dull
Dear Abby: Every year I have a garage
sensations, and an active environment may
sale. I have a good friend who without fail
not only doesn’t help but expects to place
make the vibrations undetectable. I wonder
her stuff in the sale. I am then responsible
about the frequency of these beeps as well.
for keeping track of her items and paying her
In my experience, alarms go off an average
of two to five times in a 24-hour period —
at the end. Sometimes she has put big-ticket
just a few short beeps that can be canceled
items, like a boat, in the sale and I have to call
when the diabetic is made aware of the need
her whenever there’s a lower offer. How do
I tell her to have her own garage sale with-
to treat their glucose.
out causing hurt feelings? — Unloading in
In my opinion, this is no more annoying
than many office interruptions — water-
Michigan
cooler gossip, phones ringing in the next
Dear Unloading: Your friend has a lot
cubicle, someone next door with an active
of nerve. Tell her that unless she’s willing to
cold, etc. Insulin-dependent diabetes is an
help you with the yard sale and keep track
unrelenting disease. There are no breaks.
of her own items, she should hold one of her
(I know this firsthand. I care for a Type 1
own. Alternatively, suggest you will take a
diabetic child who is not yet old enough to
percentage of the money her items bring in
appropriately respond to alarms.)
— to compensate you for your work, which
One should not use their diabetes as an
is significant. Do not worry about hurting her
excuse to annoy others but, on the other
feelings. She has a thick hide.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
BEETLE BAILEY
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY MORT WALKER
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
Aug. 3, 1921
The railroad fare from Poughkeepsie,
N.Y., to Portland is quite a few sheckles, but
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robarge left Pendleton
today, and the total of their fares so far has
been kept to $5. They are on a hike from New
York City to Portland and from there they will
go to Bend. Mr. Robarge is an ex-service man,
and before entering the service, he had proved
up on a homestead claim near Bend. After
receiving his discharge from the service, he
received vocational training. That completed,
he and his wife decided to “hike” across the
continent. They started July 2 and the end of
their journey is in sight.
50 Years Ago
Aug. 3, 1971
With the area’s employment situation for
teen-agers leaving much to be desired, two
Hermiston Junior High School students, Harry
and Jim Bresnahan, decided to do something
on their own two years ago. They are enthu-
siastic young gardeners, raising almost every
kind of berry and vegetable imaginable. They
have been able to tuck a goodly sum in the
bank during the summer months. One of the
nicest signs of summer is to pick up the phone
and hear a pleasant-sounding voice saying:
“Hi, this is Jimmie.” No need to ask: “Jimmie
who.” From then on, vegetable lovers can plan
on a bountiful supply of goodies right through
September. The youths admitted to just one
crop failure. Last year they experimented
with turnips, but the worms got to them before
Jimmie and Harry.
25 Years Ago
Aug. 3, 1996
If you look closely you can almost see the
footprints of more than 100 children running,
walking and crawling through the worn lino-
leum floors of Glenola Edwards’ yellow farm
house. “This house is lived in,” says Edwards,
55, as she points to a bathroom door in need
of molding and a bedroom ceiling poked with
holes. For the past 20 years Edwards and her
husband, Vernon, have provided children
scarred from abuse and neglect a tempo-
rary refuge from an otherwise tough world.
Edwards is prepared to pull out the Kleenex
when the pig-tailed little girl who calls her
“mama” steps out the door next month. But
she’s also ready for a little rest and relaxation
after caring for some of society’s most trou-
bled children, while raising four of her own.
Edwards is retiring.
TODAY 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
On Aug. 3, 1936, Jesse
Owens of the United States
won the first of his four gold
medals at the Berlin Olym-
pics as he took the 100-meter
sprint.
I n 1914, Ge r ma ny
declared war on France at the
onset of World War I.
In 1949, the National
Basketball Association was
formed as a merger of the
Basketball Association of
America and the National
Basketball League.
In 1966, comedian Lenny
Bruce, whose raunchy brand
of satire and dark humor
landed him in trouble with
the law, was found dead in
his Los Angeles home; he
was 40.
In 1981, U.S. air traffic
controllers went on strike,
despite a warning from Pres-
ident Ronald Reagan they
would be fired, which they
were.
In 1993, the Senate voted
96-to-3 to confirm Supreme
Court nominee Ruth Bader
Ginsburg.
In 1994, A rka nsas
carried out the nation’s first
triple execution in 32 years.
Stephen G. Breyer was sworn
in as the Supreme Court’s
newest justice in a private
ceremony at Chief Justice
William H. Rehnquist’s
Vermont summer home.
In 2005, 14 Marines from
a Reserve unit in Ohio were
killed in a roadside bombing
in Iraq.
In 2018, Las Vegas police
said they were closing their
investigation into the Oct. 1
shooting that left 58 people
dead at a country music
festival without a defini-
tive answer for why Stephen
Paddock unleashed gunfire
from a hotel suite onto the
concert crowd.
In 2019, a gunman opened
fire at a Walmart store in
El Paso, Texas, leaving 22
people dead; prosecutors
said Patrick Crusius targeted
Mexicans in hopes of scar-
ing Latinos into leaving the
U.S., and that he had outlined
the plot in a screed published
online shortly before the
attack. (A man who was
wounded in the shooting died
in April 2020 after months
in the hospital, raising the
death toll to 23. Crusius has
pleaded not guilty to state
murder charges; he also faces
federal hate crime and gun
charges.)
Today’s Birthdays: Life-
style guru Martha Stew-
art is 80. Singer Beverly
Lee (The Shirelles) is 80.
Rock singer-musician Lee
Rocker (The Stray Cats)
is 60. Hip-hop artist Spin-
derella (Salt-N-Pepa) is 50.
Actor Brigid Brannagh is
49. Actor Evangeline Lilly
is 42. Actor Tanya Fischer is
36. Pop-rock musician Brent
Kutzle (OneRepublic) is 36.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE