DEAR ABBY: I have been blessed with success over the years and continue to provide a comfortable lifestyle for my wife and me. I will be celebrating my 74th birthday soon, and 55 years of marriage to my high school sweetheart.When I come home from a busy day, I enjoy sitting down and having two […]
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Making sense of confusing medical lingo
DEAR DR. ROACH: What is the difference between NSVT and AVNRT? I am a 69-year-old female taking metoprolol once a day.—T.A. ANSWER: Medical abbreviations are confusing. Even when I spell them out — nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, and atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia — the names hardly make sense unless you know the vocabulary. A medical-school anatomy […]
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Gemini: Do your research
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Neil Patrick Harris, 42; Ice Cube, 46; Courteney Cox, 51; Helen Hunt, 52. Happy Birthday: What you accomplish on your own and without everyone watching will be remarkable this year. You may feel isolated, but the end result will be recognized as well as praised. Try not to let anyone […]
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Leo: Focus on your professional, personal interests
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Lucy Hale, 26; Kevin McHale, 27; Diablo Cody, 37; Boy George, 54. Happy Birthday: Take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way. You will learn if you listen to the voices of experience. The people you encounter will offer food for thought and help you turn something you love […]
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Wife’s secret should be discussed
DEAR ABBY: I have been happily married for 30 years. Many years ago I found out, inadvertently, that my wife is adopted. (My wife has no siblings, and her parents died when she was in college.) Concerned that she might not know about it, I contacted senior members of her family to confirm. They all […]
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Aries: Make plans for a getaway
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Kat Dennings, 29; Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 29; Tim Allen, 62; Stellan Skarsgard, 64. Happy Birthday: Take care of personal and financial matters. You can ask for help, but don’t let anyone make decisions for you. Joint ventures will not be beneficial. Keep your money and your possessions separate and […]
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Teen mom shouldn’t count on drug-addicted boyfriend
DEAR ABBY: I’m 16 and a single mom of an almost 4-month-old girl. Her father is a drug addict. He manipulated me into having sex, which I had told him I didn’t want to do until I was married. Also, I told him from the beginning of our relationship that if we ever got married […]
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Mom sent daughter to college and now is stuck with debt
DEAR ABBY: I am a single woman who borrowed $80,000 to send my daughter to college with the understanding that she would take over the payments once she was professionally established. She is now so “into” her new lifestyle that she is refusing to have contact with her “poor” birth mother. She refuses to take […]
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Who can help with scarring alopecia?
DEAR DR. ROACH: I used to have lots of hair on my head, but I have lost most of it. My doctor diagnosed me with scarring alopecia. I don’t know anything about what causes this. It bothers me very much that I am losing my hair. Is there a specialist who could help me? — […]
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Wife of transgender husband refuses to get counseling
DEAR ABBY: Two years ago, I came out as male-to-female transgender. My wife has come around since then, and our second child will be born before I start my transition. She has decided to stay with me, but occasionally she tells me she isn’t sure if she can be married to a woman. On the […]