6B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021
COFFEE BREAK
Sunny personality turns dark in the wake of a miscarriage
DEAR ABBY: I had a miscar-
riage fi ve months ago, in the 12th
week. I’m still not doing well. I
have put on a facade to get by, but
I’m just starting to
realize how deeply
this is affecting my
life.
I used to be a
happy, friendly
person, with a smile
on my face and laughter to be
shared and hugs for my loved
ones. Since the miscarriage, I put
on a fake smile and try to be who
I once was, but I can’t keep doing
it. Every day there is a moment
from that day or the aftermath
that fl oods my mind. I’m angry,
bitter, mad at the unfairness, and
I no longer have compassion or
sympathy for others.
This isn’t me. I don’t want to
be this way. My
happiness has
been replaced with
DEAR
tears and sadness.
ABBY
The hopefulness is
replaced by empti-
ness. I’m lost, and I
don’t know how to get out of this
funk.
I no longer want to try to get
pregnant again because the fear
of another miscarriage has me
paralyzed. Any advice you might
give would be appreciated.
— BROKEN IN MISSOURI
we were crazy about each other
and everything was great.
Our hometowns are two
hours apart so, to make it work,
he bought us a house right in
between. It was an hour each way
to our parents’ houses. I thought
it was the perfect compromise.
But now he’s telling me he isn’t
happy here in our new town, and
he needs to sell the house and
move back home.
He says he still wants to be
with me and that we are going to
make it work, but I can’t help but
be scared that this is gonna be the
end of our relationship. Should
I tough it out and see if we can
actually make it work? Or do I
DEAR BROKEN: Please
accept my sympathy for the loss
of your child. Your depression and
the fear you have about another
pregnancy are not unusual after
a tragedy like the one you have
experienced. You are grieving,
and the emotions you are feeling
are to be expected.
Please schedule an appoint-
ment with your OB/GYN and tell
your doctor about all of these feel-
ings, because the doctor can refer
you to someone who can help you
work through this. It will take
time, but I assure you it is doable.
DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend
and I have been together for close
to a year now. In the beginning,
call it quits and let go because
maybe it is just not meant to be?
— MIXED UP
DEAR MIXED UP: You left
out one important fact in your
letter to me. WHY does your boy-
friend need to sell the house you
share and move back home? Is he
so closely tied to his parents that
being an hour away is too far? Is
it work-related? Is he dissatisfi ed
with your relationship?
Ask him these questions
because the answers will tell you
what you can expect.
My advice is to let things
play out a bit more before
making any decision other than
to put the house on the market.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Alaska woman using
outhouse attacked
by bear, from below
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
— An Alaska woman had
the scare of a lifetime when
using an outhouse in the
backcountry and she was
attacked by a bear, from
below.
“I got out there and sat
down on the toilet and
immediately something
bit my butt right as I sat
down,” Shannon Stevens
told The Associated Press
on Thursday, Feb. 18. “I
jumped up and I screamed
when it happened.”
Stevens, her brother Erik
and his girlfriend had taken
snowmobiles into the wil-
derness Feb. 13 to stay at
his yurt, about 20 miles
Erik had brought his
headlamp with him to see
what it was.
“I opened the toilet seat
and there’s just a bear face
just right there at the level of
the toilet seat, just looking
right back up through the
hole, right at me,” he said.
“I just shut the lid as fast as
I could. I said, ‘There’s a
bear down there, we got to
get out of here now.’ And we
ran back to the yurt as fast
as we could.”
Once safely inside, they
treated Shannon with a fi rst
aid kit. They determined it
Erik Stevens via AP
This Feb. 13, 2021, photo shows a bear track in the Alaska
backcountry near where a bear attacked resident Shannon
Stevens.
northwest of Haines, in
southeast Alaska.
Her brother heard the
screaming and went out to
the outhouse, about 150 feet
away from the yurt. There,
he found Shannon tending
to her wound. They at fi rst
thought she had been bitten
by a squirrel or a mink.
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NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 85°
Low: -13°
Wettest: 2.18”
37°
16°
39°
30°
39°
34°
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Trace
Month to date
0.53
Normal month to date 0.43
Year to date
0.90
Normal year to date
1.23
0.03
2.96
0.84
4.00
2.47
0.12
4.72
1.74
9.03
4.91
PRECIPITATION (inches)
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
50%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
2.5
0.05
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
10% of capacity
51% of capacity
51% of capacity
47% of capacity
40% of capacity
97% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
1470 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
59 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
25 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
110 cfs
Minam River at Minam
126 cfs
H H H H H
Powder River near Richland
78 cfs
Kingsville, Texas
Clayton Lake, Maine
Quillayute, Wash.
OREGON
High: 54°
Low: 13°
Wettest: 0.65”
The Dalles
Lakeview
Newport
WEATHER HISTORY
A blizzard on Feb. 23, 1936, in Donner
Pass, Calif., trapped more than 750 motor-
ists; seven died. The automobile made
travel through the western mountains less
hazardous, but it was still dangerous.
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
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5:31 p.m.
1:24 p.m.
4:46 a.m.
6:39 a.m.
5:33 p.m.
2:31 p.m.
5:32 a.m.
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Beaver Marsh
Powers
33/54
35/52
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
21/31
Paisley
21/36
19/41
Frenchglen
21/37
Klamath Falls
19/43
McDermitt
Hi/Lo/W
47/38/c
40/27/s
40/21/s
55/38/s
38/16/s
49/35/s
49/33/pc
35/6/s
37/16/pc
50/34/pc
48/31/pc
46/28/c
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Hi/Lo/W
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33/17/sn
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Meacham
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Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
40/26/pc
48/37/pc
37/16/pc
54/28/s
47/38/pc
47/36/pc
42/20/s
48/30/pc
43/26/s
49/37/pc
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39/26/pc
50/32/c
35/17/pc
41/29/s
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39/26/sn
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Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
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Lakeview
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Arock
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25/40
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38/55
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20/38
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Coos Bay
12/35
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Seneca
24/40
Oakridge
Council
23/37
John Day
23/43
Elkton
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Florence
37/50
21/39
Baker City
Redmond
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Corvallis
24/38
Monument
23/43
Enterprise
La Grande
24/40
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35/51
32 28
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21/33
Condon
30/50
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
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Elgin
Pendleton
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Portland
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Lewiston
30/40
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upon photos of the tracks he
saw and the fact a neighbor
living about a half-mile
away sent him a photo of a
black bear on her property
two days later.
Even though it’s winter,
Koch said they get calls
year round about bears.
And 2020 was a record
year for general bear prob-
lems in the Haines area.
Reasons for that, he said,
could include the fact it
was a poor salmon run
year combined with a
mediocre berry crop.
— The Associated Press
wasn’t that serious.
“It was bleeding, but it
wasn’t super bad,” Shannon
said.
The next morning, they
found bear tracks, but the
bear had left. They fi gure
the bear got in the outhouse
through an opening at the
bottom of the back door.
“I expect it’s probably
not that bad of a little den in
the winter,” Shannon said.
Alaska Department
of Fish and Game Wild-
life Management Biologist
Carl Koch said he suspects
it was a black bear based
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