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A5 • Friday, April 19, 2019 | Cannon Beach Gazette | CannonBeachGazette.com Where to go when you need care By PATTI ATKINS Columbia Pacifi c CCO When you’re sick or injured, where you go for care can make a lot of dif- ference. If you have a minor ailment, you probably don’t want to sit for hours in an emergency room, waiting until the doctors and nurses have helped all the people with more serious medical issues. How do you know where to go? Here are some guide- lines from the Ameri- can College of Emergency Physicians. Seek emergency room care for conditions such as: • Compound fracture (bone protrudes through skin). • Convulsions, seizures or loss of consciousness. • Deep wounds. • Loss of vision, sud- den numbness, weakness, slurred speech or confusion (signs of stroke). • Moderate to severe burns. • Poisoning. • Serious head, neck or back injury. • Severe abdominal or chest pain. • Severe diffi culty breathing. • Suicidal or homicidal feelings. • Uncontrollable bleeding. If you have any of these emergency conditions, call 911. In many less severe cases, your primary care provider is the best choice. Give their offi ce a call. You may be able to get an appointment at your doc- tor’s offi ce for your con- cern or get your question answered over the phone without an appointment. Medical care after hours Even if your PCP’s offi ce is closed, call the clinic’s phone number. You will speak with someone who will contact your provider or give you advice about what to do. When your provider is not in the offi ce, they will arrange for another provider to be available to give you care and advice. Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare also provide crisis/emergency services and supports for individu- als experiencing a mental health crisis. Services are available 24/7 by calling 503-325-5724. Have a primary dental provider, too. You may have a primary care provider for your physical health. Do you have a primary dental provider and a dental home, too? The benefi t to you of hav- ing a dental home is that it’s truly your place for dental care,” says Alexa Jett, Care- Oregon dental innovation specialist. “Your dental team not only provides your com- prehensive oral health care such as exams, cleanings and fi llings, but can help if you have a dental emer- gency. The dental home has your records and can give you family-friendly infor- mation about oral health and oral health care.” Because so many health conditions are affected by oral health, a dental home can help keep not just your mouth healthy, but help your overall health too, she says. If you have dentures, a dental home is still import- ant to have. Your dental team will make sure your dentures fi t properly, take routine X-rays and perform an oral cancer screening. It’s good plan for keeping your mouth healthy. While it’s important for all of us to have a dental home, it’s best to establish a dental home for children by their fi rst birthday. This dental relationship will help prevent dental diseases like cavities by detecting them before problems occur and easing young ones’ anxiety about dental visits. Our hardwired brains, and how to reprogram them D iets often don’t work well because we haven’t given our brains the exact direc- tions on what we really want. Let me explain, this can change your whole perspective. BODY & MIND JENN VISSER started calling it osteoporosis in a can. Don’t tell yourself that junk food makes you feel good. Link more plea- sure to healthy food that best supports your health goals. There’s plenty Hardwired Our brains are hardwired to move us towards pleasure and away from pain. It’s how we have survived as a species for millions of years. What’s unique about us humans is that we can choose what we link pleasure and pain to. Let me give an example. Sneezes all over it The waiter is bringing out a pizza and you love pizza, you’re starting to salivate as he’s walking over with it. All of a sudden he sneezes all over the pizza. That pizza is now gross to you. Or let’s say you get food poisoning from oysters. As you’re throwing up, you might be saying never again will I eat oysters. From then on looking at oysters make you sick. Confusing, isn’t it? I hear all the time that eating cakes, chocolate, ice-cream, and drinking mochas make people happy but also unhappy. Confusing, isn’t it? You can- not succeed on any diet loving and hating the same food, wanting it, denying it and then craving it. When you’re stressed and eat Ben & Jerry’s and say “Oh my god, this is amazing! This makes me feel so much better” Then what do you think your brain is going to tell you to do next time you’re stressed? Stressed? Eat the Ice cream, that made you feel better. What to do? Make a list of food that you both hate/love and link pain to it. I know a woman who was able to stop drinking diet Pepsi because she Wording matters. The brain hates scarcity and the word can’t. For exam- ple saying I can’t eat that right now, I’m on a diet. Creates even more desire and cravings. Say this instead, I could have that pizza and there’s plenty, but I’m choosing the grilled chicken and salad and I’m going to feel just as satisfi ed. Or yes, those cookies look nice but what’s even nicer is feeling good in my clothes. This isn’t about shame. Nothing gets better with shame. This is about learning how to direct your mind to what you really want. It takes practice so don’t give up or be mean to your- self. You’re learning! Let me know how you’re linking pleasure and pain to food. How are you going to change your mindset? Thomas Frank chronicles signs of U.S. decline D uring the Great upper Midwest, and the Depression, World small mill towns devasted War II and Korean by poorly conceived trade Confl ict, the Democratic agreements that trans- Party of Franklin Roos- ferred U.S. manufactur- evelt and Harry Truman ing to Mexico and Asia, protected workers, farm- a shift that gutted Main ers, people of color and Street while enriching Wall Street. average middle-class He provides a simi- Americans from rural lar critique of print jour- areas, small towns and nalism as newspapers and urban centers. Lyndon experienced reporters dis- Johnson and Jimmy Car- appear in small towns and ter did much the same. Democratic candidates major city dailies shrink encountered voter resistance to tradi- tional liberal pol- icies: fi rst from the campaigns of Richard Nixon, AT THE LIBRARY Ronald Rea- JOE BERNT gan and Repub- lican candidates against crime, welfare, abor- tion and civil rights for in size, staff, frequency minority groups, women, and coverage. For Frank, gay men and women and reduced access to afford- able higher education and immigrants. To counter lost sup- quality journalism, two port in the Southern states traditional sources of crit- and growing losses in the ical analysis, contributed Midwest and West, Bill to “the Donald’s” Elec- Clinton won election by toral College victory in exploiting the George 2016. Finally, a few library H.W. Bush recession and wrapping Republican pol- events in April and May icies into his rhetoric on to consider: The Northwest Authors crime, welfare and trade. Following the con- Series sponsors “Fisher- tested election of George poets Return,” Thursday, W. Bush in 2000, Barack April 25, at 7 p.m. Clem Obama returned Dem- Starck will read from his ocrats to power in 2008 latest book accompanied and mostly followed Clin- by Jon Broderick and ton’s domestic policies Jay Speakman, who also and Bush’s post 9-11for- will present some of their eign policies. after the poems and songs. The library’s annual 9-11. Under both Clin- ton and Obama, the Dem- membership meeting is ocratic Party befriended scheduled for Wednesday, Wall Street interests and May 1, at 10 a.m. Mark your calendar campaign contributions. “Rendezvous with now and don’t miss the Oblivion: Reports from a annual Memorial Day Sinking Society,” Frank’s Rare and Old Book Sale, latest book, offers a bril- at the Cannon Beach liant analysis of the con- Library, 131 N. 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