Kidney transplant recipient Carole Fair is now an author as well as an active
organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.
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By Lori Van Ingen
Chronic kidney disease affects one in nine Americans, and millions more
are at risk. More than 105,000 people are on the National Kidney Transplant
List in the United States.
“Every day, 18 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ,
such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or bone marrow,” said Carole
Fair, an organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central
Pennsylvania for nearly two years.
Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidney
patients, 1,506 liver patients, 371 heart patients, and 234 lung patients died
in 2008 while waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, Fair noted.
“I’m hoping that with more awareness of transplantation and the
generosity of others, these numbers could certainly decline,” said Fair, who
recently spoke at events at Holy Spirit Hospital and Hershey Antique Auto
Association.
Fair is a circuit speaker at civic clubs, women’s organizations, and
churches. She helps people become aware of transplantation, clears up
misconceptions, and promotes organ donation in general.
“I get asked the most basic questions, like, ‘Where is my kidney located?’
and ‘Is the old kidney removed during a transplant?’” said Fair, who also is a
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Cecilia Chiang, 91, Chinese –
Raised in a very wealthy family in
Shanghai, she was not allowed in the
kitchen. As a young woman, Chiang
escaped occupied China and, years later,
traveled to San Francisco to visit her
sister.
Serendipitously, she met a friend there
who planned to open a restaurant and
then reneged, but Chiang went forward
with the lease since she had already
written a large, nonrefundable check to
the landlord on behalf of her friend. And
so her restaurant Mandarin began and
remained active for more than 40 years.
Chiang has taught Julia Child, James
Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye.
Madhur Jaffrey, 79, Indian – Born
in Delhi, India, she did not cook at
home when she was young and traveled
abroad to study in London at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art. After
marrying she moved to New York City
and, in 1973, she published her first
cookbook, An Invitation to Indian
Cooking.
Jaffrey has written numerous
cookbooks of Indian, Asian, and world
vegetarian cuisines, and has won James
Beard Foundation awards for some of
her books. As a result of the success,
Jaffrey also developed a unique line of
mass-marketed cooking sauces.
Diana Kennedy, 88, Mexican – Born
in the United Kingdom, she arrived in
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Alice Waters at dinner with friends.
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Mexico with her husband, who was a
New York Times correspondent. She
traveled throughout Mexico researching
cooking techniques as well as the history
of Mexican cuisine. Craig Claiborne
urged her to give Mexican cooking
lessons in New York City and then, in
1972, Kennedy published her first book,
The Cuisines of Mexico, and eight more
books would follow.
Jiro Ono, 86, Japanese – Born in
Japan, he is considered the world’s
greatest sushi chef. After his father left,
the 9-year-old Ono left home and never
returned. He has been mastering sushi
for the past 76 years and now is the
subject of a documentary, Jiro Dreams of
Sushi.
Ono’s tiny restaurant, Sukiyabashi
Jiro, is in Tokyo, where he holds the
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Jacques Pépin, 76, French – Born in
France to restaurateurs, he learned to
appreciate food at an early age. In the
1950s he was the personal chef to
Charles DeGaulle and then moved to
the United States in 1959. He has
appeared on numerous television shows
and received a Daytime Emmy award in
2001 for his show Julia and Jacques
Cooking at Home with Julia Child.
Today he serves as dean of special
programs at the French Culinary
Institute, teaches an online class for
Boston University, and writes a quarterly
column for Food & Wine magazine.
Georges Perrier, 69, French – Born
in France and although not from a poor
family, he began working at 14 and then
moved to the United States when he was
21 years old. In 1970 he opened Le Bec
Fin (French colloquial translation: fine
palate) in Philadelphia, which gained a
five-star reputation and was known as
the leader of the “Philadelphia restaurant
revolution.”
In January 2009, the French
government awarded Perrier the Legion
d’Honneur. In February 2012, Perrier
announced his retirement from Le Bec
Fin by selling it to a former Le Bec
manager. Perrier still maintains
ownership/interest in other restaurant
venues.
Wolfgang Puck, 63, Austrian – Born
in Austria and trained in France, he
learned much of his cooking skills from
his mother, who had sometimes worked
as a pastry chef. At 25, he moved to Los
Angeles where, 15 years later, he opened
the award-winning Spago restaurant.
Now he has a gastronomic empire
under his name that includes more than
20 fine restaurants, catering services,
more than 80 Wolfgang Puck Express
operations, and kitchen and food
merchandise, including cookbooks and
convenience foods. He is the official
caterer for the Academy Awards and his
favorite food is macaroons.
Alice Waters, 67, American – Born
in New Jersey, she moved to California
to attend college. It was during her study
abroad time in France that she began
purchasing fresh foods directly, and it
was this experience that resonated with
her and led to the development of her
food-fresh sustainable beliefs.
In 1971 she opened the Chez Panisse
restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., which
quickly became famous for its organic,
locally grown ingredients and is ranked
among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.
Waters created the Chez Panisse
Foundation with a mission to transform
public education by using food to teach,
nurture, and empower young people.
In 1992, Waters was the first woman
to be awarded Best Chef in America by
the James Beard Foundation and has
received numerous other awards, written
about a dozen cookbooks, and is a board
member of relevant institutions. Waters
is an internationally acclaimed food
activist who has inspired the organic
food revolution.
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If you like vintage architecture
from the 1960s, you’ll like the
surroundings of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
The building was ultra-modern
in its day with its interior spiral
ramp (like the one designed by
Frank Lloyd Wright for the
Guggenheim Museum in New York
City), glass curtain wall (a nod to
the urban office-building
architecture of Mies van der Rohe
and Philip Johnson), and football-
shaped roofline
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architecture.
Canton, Ohio,
was chosen as the
site for the Hall of
Fame for many
reasons. However,
we focus on
football’s legacy
there as opposed
to some other
locale because of
the Native
American athlete
named Jim
Thorpe, who
signed a football
contract there. Thorpe, the star of
the 1912 Olympic Games, signed
his first contract to play football
with the Canton Bulldogs in 1915.
While the vintage building is
good looking, the museum is in the
midst of completing a major
construction/
expansion project to host more
football fans. The completion of the
museum expansion will coincide
with the Hall of Fame’s 50th
anniversary in 2013. The new
facilities will not only host a world
of football fans, but they will also
offer the Ralph Wilson Jr. Football
Research and Preservation Center,
the researchers’ reading room, an
event center, and a meeting room.
In addition, there will be
exhibition galleries focusing on the
history of the game dating back to
the early 1900s, state-of-the-art
interactive displays featuring game
footage and player videos, the
Lamar Hunt Super Bowl exhibition
gallery with the Vince Lombardi
trophy on display, the Super Bowl
ring display (for the jewelry lover in
the family), and the popular Hall of
Fame gallery.
While the Super Bowl ring
display was one of my favorites
(who doesn’t like all those
diamonds?), the Hall of Fame
gallery speaks to the core of the Hall
of Fame. The gallery houses
interactive displays and an
impressive assemblage of fine-art
bronze portrait busts of the Hall of
Fame inductees through the years.
The bronze busts are the work of
Utah sculptor Blair Buswell and
they capture the likeness of each
football great. As a display, the
gallery is awe inspiring as visitors
search for their favorite Hall of
Famer.
At the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
exhibits trace the history of
professional football with unique
objects like the Baltimore Colts
marching band’s bass drum, press
wood posters announcing the 1962
AFL championship game between
the Houston Oilers and the Dallas
Texans, and early helmets worn by
various players.
The exhibits highlight player
uniforms from the Pro Bowl as well
as equipment and apparel worn by
Walter Payton, Joe Namath, and
Dan Marino, among others. The
exhibits also focus on the impact of
stars like O.J. Simpson and the
Buffalo Bills’ Electric Company.
Some displays show a player’s
love of the game by focusing on
great plays made by Chicago Bears
running back Brian Piccolo or
Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman. And,
who could forget the famous
Immaculate Reception
made by Pittsburgh
Steelers fullback Franco
Harris (a fellow Penn
Stater) on Dec. 23,
1972? The museum,
through its diverse
exhibits, shows visitors
the heart of the game
of football.
I discovered one last
interesting thing about
sports museums during
my visit to the Pro
Football Hall of Fame.
No matter how much
information is available
to a visitor in a sports
museum, fans always
search for more. I
noticed many visitors standing in
front of very good, informative
displays—even interactive
displays—who were still searching
for additional stats on their cell
phones. I even found myself doing
it.
As a former museum curator and
director, I bet you think I’d be
appalled by this but, in fact, I think
when a museum’s displays prompt
visitors to find out more, that’s a
pretty cool and quite interactive
museum. Plan a visit.
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Theodore Rickard
Ihate to admit it—or, at least, I
should be somewhat bashful about
admitting it—but there is a certain
smug satisfaction in being retired.
First of all, there is an inner
contentment, somewhat akin to a sense
of triumph, in not being awakened by
the clock radio. For years the little white
cube was set for the same time and the
same unctuous and annoyingly happy
voice told us what the local weather was.
This information was a loser either
way. If the weather was bad, it meant a
rush to leave early enough to allow for
the inevitable traffic snarls. If the
weather was good, the call to duty and
the reality of a second mortgage
engendered painful resentments.
In the first few months of not having
to go to work I’d call the bank to see if
the pension deposits had actually been
made. The patient lady (her name is
Alice) at the local branch would recite
the figures—the same numbers every
month. Something tells me I was not
the only one doing this just to make
sure. Alice never sounded surprised at
the request.
At our house the lifetime spousal
comptroller and treasurer dealt with
none of this uncertainty. With sublime
confidence in the world of finance, she’d
go ahead and write the checks for the
condo assessment, telephone bill, and all
those essential etceteras of living. I
admire her faith in the banking system
even after all the bad press that bankers
have been getting.
And especially since our own local
financial institution is now in its fourth
name change, and we hear it’s been
acquired yet again, although neither of
us can remember either its last-year
name or its current name or this year’s
slogan.
Only Alice has remained the same
throughout the bank’s successive
identities. Her continued presence gives
us some sense of a stable housing for our
modest deposit balance. I keep
wondering what’s going to happen when
Alice retires, but I’ve stopped calling her
every month to see if the money is
actually there.
And we sleep later in the morning.
Or I do, anyway. Sometimes I awaken to
the scent of coffee freshly brewing. This
means we’re going shopping today.
“Shopping” entails me finding a place to
sit down while the lifetime spousal
purchasing agent provides whatever we
need to survive both the immediate and
the distant future.
These needs are heavily weighted
with grandchildren’s birthdays,
graduations (including play school), and
the next Yuletide, however many
months away it might be.
Occasionally I do the “guy thing.”
For some reason, this almost always
involves the car. For example, our
somewhat aged, mid-sized sedan gets a
regular oil change. This requires man-
to-man talk with “Angie” at the local
service station. Usually we decide that
the brakes are “good for another
20,000, but we better keep an eye on
the muffler” and “we’ll want to replace
all four tires before we get snow.”
Actually, it is not “we” doing any
deciding here. Angie’s voice may be
muffled coming as it does from
someplace deep underneath the chassis,
but his diagnosis is unmistakable. This
might be because it’s the same thing he
said the last time we changed the oil.
I know it sounds somewhat mean-
spirited of me, but the best retirement
days are those when the dawn brings a
downpour—a rainstorm enough to
frighten Noah. I don’t need that
artificially cheerful radio voice to tell me
about it. I can hear the water lashing
against the windows even though the
blinds are drawn tight.
All that I have to do about it is to
roll over and go back to sleep. I’m
somewhat ashamed to admit I do so
with barely a twinge of sympathy for
those wage earners, including our own
offspring, who have to slog through the
day to earn their daily bread and cough
up their Social Security taxes.
Selfishly sleepy as I may be, I hope
they are successful. And I make a
mental note to call Alice just to make
sure.
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Traveltizers Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
By Andrea Gross
“There it is!” The child who is
standing next to me jumps up and
down, accompanying each jump with
an ear-splitting shriek. I look in the
direction he is pointing. It is indeed a
scream-worthy sight.
There, sailing toward us, in a slow
but steady manner, is a giant pirate
ship, with masts that pierce the sky
and bright flags that wave in the
breeze. The name of the ship is
emblazoned on its side: José
Gasparilla.
The deck is crowded with
hundreds of men, some with black
triangular hats adorned with a skull-
and crossbones insignia, others with
colorful rag-wrapped turbans. The
men blast cannons, brandish swords,
and whoop and holler as the ship,
surrounded by a flotilla of small
boats, prepares to invade the city of
Tampa.
The ship docks and the pirate
captain disembarks and approaches the
mayor, demanding the key to the city of
Tampa. The mayor complies; the party
can begin.
Tampa’s annual pirate fest, which will
take place this year on Jan. 26, honors
José Gaspar, the bold buccaneer who, in
the late 1700s and early 1800s,
captured hundreds of ships off the coast
of Florida.
Today the Gasparilla Festival has
become a major event, and the stolen
treasure is being returned in the form of
tourist dollars.
Gasparilla combines the legend of
Gaspar with the magic of Mardi Gras.
Following their successful takeover of
the city, the merry pirates (a.k.a., civic
leaders who are members of Ye Mystic
Krewe of Gasparilla) strut through
downtown in true swashbuckling style,
accompanied by more than 100 floats
and marching bands.
At the same time, merrymakers fill
the streets, where there’s nonstop
entertainment and an abundance of
Pirates and More in Tampa
The pirate ship José
Gasparilla approaches
the city of Tampa.
Tampa residents get into
the spirit of Gasparilla.
After the invasion, the
pirates parade through
town, tossing treasures to
the waiting crowd.
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food stands. The partying continues until
10 p.m., at which time the victorious
pirates retreat, letting Tampa return to
the 21st century.
Of course, Tampa is more than
pirates. Its attractions include great
beaches (nearby St. Pete Beach was voted
No. 1 by TripAdvisor), a temperate
climate (average summer temps are in the
low 80s; average winter ones are in the
low 60s), and a historic district that
reflects the city’s Latin heritage.
We start our exploration in Ybor City
(pronounced EE-bore), the historic
neighborhood named after the Cuban
cigar manufacturer who made the region
a mecca for hardworking immigrants.
Less than 100 years after Gaspar pillaged
the region, workers from Cuba were
joined by workers of other nationalities,
and together they produced
approximately 700 million hand-rolled
cigars a year.
Today the area is filled with eclectic
shops and trendy nightclubs, but traces
of the past remain. Old, red-brick
buildings with wrought-iron grillwork
line streets bordered with spindly palms;
master cigar rollers continue to practice
their craft; and the Columbia Restaurant,
Florida’s oldest and the world’s largest
Spanish restaurant, features a full array of
Cuban food, as well as the “original
Cuban sandwich” (a long loaf of soft,
white bread filled with layers of ham,
roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and
mustard).
Walking through the restaurant is
almost as interesting as tasting its food.
Amidst the wrought iron and bright tiles,
there’s a royal dining room, a Spanish
courtyard, and a flamenco nightclub.
The Tampa Bay History Center, a
60,000-square-foot facility that opened
in January 2009, tells us more about
Ybor City and the entire Tampa Bay
region. Various exhibits highlight people
from the Seminole Indians and Spanish
conquistadors to the “cowmen and
crackers” who were part of Florida’s
cattle-ranching past.
To see a bit of Tampa’s natural history,
we go to the 240-acre Lettuce Lake Park,
so named because the surrounding
greenery reminded folks of a lunchtime
salad. Rather than renting a canoe or
kayak, we pick up a map and brochure at
the visitors center and explore on foot.
There are 3,500 feet of boardwalk, more
than a mile of paved pathways, and an
abundance of well-maintained nature
trails that lead us though groves of
cypress and ferns and past two alligators,
a few turtles, and an untold number of
birds.
That evening we arrive early for our
flight home and are relaxing at the
mojito bar when a gentleman tells us that
the best place to see a Florida sunset is
from the top of the airport parking
garage. We take the elevator to the top
floor and there, against a red sky, we can
almost see a fully rigged pirate ship
sailing into the bay.
With a smile and a toast to José
Gaspar, we go down to catch our plane.
www.visittampabay.com
Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross
(www.andreagross.com).
Columbia Restaurant, established in
1905, is Florida’s oldest restaurant.
Hand-rolled cigars are still
made in Ybor City.
Ybor City is a National
Historic District that
commemorates the city’s
Latin heritage.
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As he grew up in Corning, N.Y.,
Bill Landis saw a future for
himself as an electrical engineer.
So after he graduated from high school in
1967, he went to work at a Central
Pennsylvania RCA plant, working on jobs
as technically complex as creating the
camera used on the Apollo missions to the
moon.
He had a low number in the military
draft, however, and he knew that he
would soon be called into the military. So
he decided to join the Navy, where he
could hope to be part of the Navy’s
program of rapidly converting to nuclear
propulsion for its submarines. He didn’t
know at the time how difficult that
would be. But he was soon to find out.
Upon enlisting, he was called to active
duty in 1970 and took boot camp at
Great Lakes Training Center. He then
learned of the rigid requirements of those
who were selected for submarine service.
They were all volunteers. No one could
be taller than 6 feet, and they must have
perfect color vision and
perfect physical condition,
including sound teeth.
Those meeting those
requirements then faced a
number of mental and
psychological tests, from
which only those in the
top 10 percent had any
chance of being selected.
Having passed all those
hurdles, Landis was sent
to the Navy’s Mare Island
Nuclear Power School in
California, and then to
Idaho at an operating
atomic reactor for six
months. There, he studied math,
chemistry, metallurgy, and nuclear
physics. A special board was sent from
Washington, D.C., to grade the tests
faced by those who completed those jam-
packed months of training.
Landis and the others
who had qualified were
sent to assignments in the
fleet. Landis was sent to
Pearl Harbor, where he
was assigned to the Puffer,
an SSN-652 nuclear
attack submarine.
The mission of the
Puffer was to find and
destroy enemy submarines
and surface vessels, using
its torpedoes and the
Tomahawk cruise missiles
it carried aboard. The sub
also was able to carry
Navy Seals and offload
them underwater to perform a mission,
and then recover them after the mission,
without an enemy’s knowing from where
they came or where they went after
completing the mission.
An important asset of the Puffer was
its ability to descend to great depths at
sea. Where previous diesel-powered subs
had been able to go as deep as 500 feet,
the nuclear-powered subs like the Puffer
were able to dive far deeper.
The sub itself was about the length of
a football field … and carried all the food
the crew of some 120 men would need
on a typical patrol of two months. It had
its own water-purification and waste-
disposal systems, and the nuclear power
plant would propel the vessel indefinitely.
Where diesel-powered subs had been
essentially surface craft that could
submerge, nuclear-powered subs like the
Puffer were truly underwater craft that
needed to come to land only at the end
of a mission.
What was life like aboard the sub?
“Well,” Landis says, “they fed us four
times a day, and the food was
He Spent Many 2-Month Tours Under the Sea
Robert D. Wilcox
Salute to a Veteran
William C. Landis, aboard the
attack submarine Puffer, with
his submarine qualification
certificate.
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outstanding. And they kept us so busy
that there was little time to think of the
diversions we might be missing. Meals
were served continuously, so you had to
fit them in between your other duties.
There were only four tables in the enlisted
mess, so meals took some planning. But
every man aboard—even the cooks—were
submarine qualified to know all the sub’s
basic systems.
“Big as the Puffer was, every inch of
space was used to carry essential food and
gear. It was so crowded that you had
virtually no privacy. Since water was at
such a premium, you had a ‘Navy shower’
once a week. You turned the water on to
get yourself wet, then turned it off to get
soaped up, and then turned it back on to
rinse off. If the guy after you thought you
were taking a minute more than necessary,
he simply turned the faucet to cold, and
you hopped out in a hurry. There were
only two shower stalls for the 100 or so
enlisted men aboard, and each was so
small that you couldn’t turn around.
“The Puffer often did escort duty,
where we shadowed our carriers, for
example, and protected them from enemy
subs. We used passive sonar that listened
for the electronic imprint of enemy subs,
but wouldn’t lead them to us. Our
torpedoes could be steered from our sub
to go exactly where we wanted them to
go.”
Other jobs of the Puffer were to
participate in war games, where they gave
surface ships a chance to try to locate
threatening subs. Also, to keep tabs on
Soviet subs, often trailing them for days,
reporting on their movements and
recording noise signatures.
An interesting sidelight was that prior
to the filming of The Hunt for Red
October, Sean Connery was on board the
Puffer preparing for his role as Capt.
Marko Ramius. He was given the status
of a commander and was allowed (while
the captain was next to him) to give
orders while the boat was underway.
Just after Christmas in 1976, Landis
was discharged from the Navy at Pearl
Harbor as an E-5 2nd class petty officer.
He returned to Central Pennsylvania to
again work for RCA in engineering,
gaining several patents for his work in
fiber optics. At the same time, he
attended Franklin & Marshall College, in
the evening division, and earned an
associate degree in business
administration.
Landis retired in 2009 and now
spends much of his time talking with
groups and individuals about his having
served for so many years under the seas
in the Pacific.
Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in
Europe in World War II.
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Beating Bunions: Shoe Choice and Foot Type
NurseNews
Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES
Bunions (those swollen, painful
bumps on the inside of the foot at
the base of the big toe) are so
closely associated in our minds with
women, and with fashionable but often
ill-fitting shoes, that the question I was
asked last week as to whether or not men
even get bunions was not at all
unreasonable.
While it’s true that 90 percent of
bunions occur in women and that more
than 50 percent of women in America
have them, gender and shoe choice are
not entirely to blame. Yes, men do get
bunions, but children can also develop
bunions and even folks who live in
mostly shoeless societies have bunions, so
there’s obviously more to bunions than
just women’s ill-fitting shoes.
In medical lingo, a bunion is a hallux
valgus. It’s an enlargement of the bone or
the tissue around the base of the big toe,
which, in turn, pushes the big toe out of
alignment and causes it to slant toward
the second toe.
The underlying cause of bunions,
according to Dr. Zachary Chattler of
Johns Hopkins University, is the foot’s
genetic structure and how it causes us to
walk. Bunions do run in families, but it
is the foot type we inherit (low arches, for
example) that causes the foot to turn
outward (“pronate”) when we walk and
that encourages the formation of
bunions; we do not inherit the bunions
themselves.
However, shoe choice does play a large
role. Narrow, pointed-toe, sky-high heels
can cause a bunion to develop more
quickly and even play a role in its
recurrence after surgery.
How do you know if your shoes fit
properly? Seems many folks believe that
their feet haven’t grown since their teen
years (is that similar to the belief that our
belt sizes haven’t changed?), but in truth,
as our foot ligaments loosen and our
arches flatten over time, our feet do get
bigger.
One source I read suggests that in
order to tell if you are buying the correct
size shoe, you should stand barefoot on
paper, have a friend trace the outline of
your feet, and then place your shoes on
top of each outline to see if your foot is
wider than the shoe. The idea seems
reasonable, given that we no longer
(thankfully) have those shoe-fit x-ray
machines prevalent in shoe stores in the
’50s. Remember those?
If you have bunions, you may require
surgery, but there are solutions to try
first:
• Make sure your shoes are the right size.
• Ask your doctor if either over-the-
counter or custom-made orthotics—
inserts that prevent your feet from “over-
pronating”—are for you.
• Consider taking an anti-inflammatory
medication, such as ibuprofen, but ask
how much you can safely take in one day.
• Inquire if steroid injections might help
with the pain.
• Stick to low-impact exercises (walking,
swimming) as they are kinder on your
feet.
If surgery is your only option, there
are a number of procedures available to
correct the misaligned joint and remove
the bump. Bunion surgery
(bunionectomy) is usually done on an
outpatient basis, but understand that
healing can take months and yes,
bunions can come back, especially if you
just cannot resist those Manolo Blahniks.
Gloria May is a registered nurse with a
master’s degree in health education and a
certified health education specialist
designation.
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Help 50plus Senior News celebrate the localeateries that deserve national fame!
Copyright by Pat Sinclair. Pat Sinclair announces the publication of her second
cookbook, Scandinavian Classic Baking (Pelican Publishing), in February 2011. This
book has a color photo of every recipe. Her first cookbook, Baking Basics and Beyond(Surrey Books), won the 2007 Cordon d’Or from the Culinary Arts Academy.
Contact her at http://PatCooksandBakes.blogspot.com
Makes 4 servings
2 teaspoons canola or vegetable oil
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped carrot
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 (15 3/4 ounces) cans vegetable broth
2 (15 ounces) cans black beans, drained and rinsed
1 (14 ounces) can diced tomatoes
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1 chipotle chile en adobo, chopped
1 bay leaf
1/4 cup dry sherry, if desired
1/2 cup reduced fat sour cream
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
Sliced avocado
Heat the oil over medium heat in a medium saucepan. Add the onion
and carrot and cook until softened, five to six minutes. Add the garlic and
cook 30 seconds, stirring constantly.
Stir in the broth, beans, tomatoes, chili powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon,
chipotle chile, and bay leaf. Bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat to
low and simmer 20 minutes. Remove bay leaf.
Remove about 2 cups of the soup. Using an immersion blender or
blender, puree the remaining soup. Add the reserved soup to the puree. Stir
in a little water if the soup is too thick.
Stir 1 tablespoon sherry into each serving. Garnish each with sour cream
and cilantro and a few avocado slices, if desired.
Vegetarian Black Bean SoupBy Pat Sinclair
Every year I resolve to eat healthier food in the new year, along with at least
half of the population.
An easy change to make is to serve one meatless meal a week, and using
canned beans simplifies prep. Rinsing the beans thoroughly removes a
significant amount of sodium. Using low-sodium chicken broth instead of the
vegetable broth also reduces sodium.
For a second meal, I like to serve the soup over rice instead of adding the
sherry, but I still garnish with sour cream and cilantro. This soup also freezes
well, but the spiciness intensifies.
Cook’s Note: Chipotle chiles are smoked jalapeno chiles. They are pickled
and canned and keep well in the refrigerator after they are
opened. Use them to add a smoky flavor to meats and stews.
Remove the seeds and the ribs to reduce the heat, if desired.
Or add another pepper if you like it smokin’ hot.
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Calendar of EventsDelta Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 456-5753
Eastern Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 252-1641
Golden Visions Senior Community Center(717) 633-5072
Heritage Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 292-7471
Northeastern Senior Community Center(717) 266-1400
Red Land Senior Citizen Center – (717) 938-4649
South Central Senior Community Center(717) 235-6060Weekdays, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Wii Games
Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. – Zumba Gold for Seniors
Fridays, 9 a.m. – This & That Stitchers Class
Stewartstown Senior Center – (717) 993-3488Jan. 8, 9:30 – Chair Massages
Jan. 15, 10 a.m. – Show & Tell
Jan. 16, 9 a.m. – Ceramics
Susquehanna Senior Center – (717) 244-0340
White Rose Senior Center – (717) 843-9704www.whiteroseseniorcenter.org
Windy Hill Senior Center – (717) 225-0733
Yorktown Senior Center – (717) 854-0693
Please call or visit the centers’ websites for additionalactivities.
York County Library Programs
York County Department of Parks and Recreation
Pre-registration is required for these programs. To register or find out more about these activities or anyadditional scheduled activities, call (717) 428-1961.
Jan. 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Project Feederwatch, Nixon Park
Jan. 11, 7 to 9:30 p.m. – Owl Walk, Nixon Park
Jan. 13, 2:30 to 4 p.m. – Wildlife Forensics, Nixon Park
Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public
Jan. 8, 7 p.m.Surviving Spouse Socials of York County
Faith United Church of Christ
509 Pacific Ave., York
(717) 266-2784
Jan. 15, 3 p.m.Caregiver Support Group
Golden Visions Senior Community Center
250 Fame Ave., #125, Hanover
(717) 633-5072
Jan. 17, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.Alzheimer’s Support Group
Senior Commons at Powder Mill
1775 Powder Mill Road, York
(717) 741-0961
Arthur Hufnagel Public Library of Glen Rock, 32 Main St., Glen Rock, (717) 235-1127
Collinsville Community Library, 2632 Delta Road, Brogue, (717) 927-9014Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Purls of Brogue Knitting Club
Dillsburg Area Public Library, 17 S. Baltimore St., Dillsburg, (717) 432-5613Jan. 5, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Free Drop-In Tech Instruction Session
Dover Area Community Library, 3700-3 Davidsburg Road, Dover, (717) 292-6814
Glatfelter Memorial Library, 101 Glenview Road, Spring Grove, (717) 225-3220Mondays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Knitting Group
Saturdays, 1 p.m. – Chess Club
Jan. 31, 6:30 p.m. – Adult Book Discussion
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Kaltreider-Benfer Library, 147 S. Charles St., Red Lion, (717) 244-2032
Kreutz Creek Valley Library Center, 66 Walnut Springs Road, Hellam, (717) 252-4080
Martin Library, 159 E. Market St., York, (717) 846-5300
Mason-Dixon Public Library, 250 Bailey Drive, Stewartstown, (717) 993-2404
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County, 80 Constitution Ave., Shrewsbury, (717) 235-4313
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Dear Savvy Senior,
Does Medicare cover eye care? I had
excellent vision insurance through my
employer for many years but lost it when I
retired, and now I am confused as to what
Medicare actually covers. What can you tell
me?
— Living on a Budget
Dear Living,
Many retirees are confused with what
Medicare will and won’t cover when it
comes to eye
care. Here’s a
breakdown of
how Medicare
handles
different types
of vision care
services, along
with some
additional tips
that can help
you get
affordable care
when needed.
MedicareCoverage If you have
original
Medicare (Part
A and B), it’s
important to
know that
“routine”
vision care like
eye exams, eye
refractions,
eyeglasses, or
contact lenses
are generally
not covered. But, “medically necessary”
eye care usually is. Here’s a list of what is
covered:
• Eye surgeries: any surgical procedure
that helps repair the function of the eye
like cataract removal, cornea transplant,
glaucoma surgery, etc.
• Eyeglasses or contacts: only if you’ve
had cataract surgery.
• Medical eye exams: only if you’re
having vision problems that indicate a
serious eye condition like macular
degeneration, retinopathy, glaucoma, or
dry eye syndrome.
• Glaucoma screenings: annual screenings
for those at high risk (diabetics, those
with a family history of glaucoma, or
those who are African-American or
Hispanic).
• Diabetic eye exams: if you have
diabetes, yearly exams for diabetic
retinopathy.
• Macular
degeneration:
certain
treatments are
covered.
You also
need to be
aware that of
the eye care
services that are
covered by
Medicare, you’re
still responsible
for 20 percent
of the cost—
Medicare pays
the other 80
percent.
To help with
this out-of-
pocket expense,
some Medigap
supplemental
policies provide
gap coverage.
Or, if you have
Medicare
Advantage, some
plans provide eye care benefits. Be sure
you check with your plan administrator.
Ways to SaveIf you find your eye care needs aren’t
covered, or you can’t afford the 20
percent out-of-pocket that Medicare
doesn’t cover, there are other ways to
save.
For starters, if you need a refractive
eye exam or a new pair of eyeglasses,
many optometrists and eyeglass dealers
offer discounts—usually between 10 and
30 percent—to seniors who request it.
Memberships in groups like AAA and
AARP can also provide lower rates.
Another way to get low-cost eye care
is at an optometry school. Many offer
affordable care provided by students that
are overseen by their professors. See
www.opted.org for a directory of schools
and their contact information.
Assistance ProgramsDepending on where you live, there
may also be some local clinics or
charitable organizations that provide free
or discounted eye care or eyeglasses.
Put in a call to your local Lions Club
to see what’s available in your area. To
reach your local club, visit
www.directory.
lionsclubs.org or call (800) 747-4448 to
get the number to your state Lions Club
office, which can refer you to your
community representative.
Or, if you need medical eye care,
check into EyeCare America. This is a
national program that provides
comprehensive medical eye examinations
to seniors age 65 and older and up to
one year of treatment at no cost. They
accept Medicare or other insurance as
full payment. And if you don’t have
insurance, care is free. To learn more or
to find out if you qualify, visit
www.eyecareamerica.org.
If you’re under age 65, some other
services that can help include Mission
Cataract USA (www.missioncataract
usa.org), which provides free cataract
surgery to low-income people who don’t
have insurance. And Vision USA
(www.optometryscharity.org/vision-usa,
(800) 766-4466) provides free vision care
to uninsured and low-income workers
and their families.
Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the
NBC Today show and author of The SavvySenior Book. www.savvysenior.org.
Eye Care Coverage and Services for Retirees
Savvy Senior
Jim Miller
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Book Review
ho has a stronger sense of
tradition than the Amish?
In Amish Folk Tales and
Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch,
we find anecdotes that have been passed
down in families. In the retelling of these
stories we find that each has been given a
special patina as it has been lovingly
handed down from generation to
generation.
“Amos Trades Up” follows the comical
misadventures of a young Amishman.
Paid off after his year of indentured
service, Amos starts walking home. But
along the way he meets temptation after
temptation—and he pursues them all.
“Eilenshpiggel and His Shenanigans”
tells of the willful, mischievous rogue
who’s a legend among the Pennsylvania
Dutch people.
In “John the Blacksmith,” we learn of
the native intelligence of this character
and of how he manages to outwit an
emissary from the devil himself.
“Tales Tall and Taller” is a collection
of exaggerations that make for wonderful
reminiscences. For
example, what happened
to the man from Ephrata
whose dentist pulled his
tooth, then somehow let it
slip off the tongs and
travel down the patient’s
throat?
Read “Graven Images
and the Legends that
Grow Around Them” to
find out about burial
customs among the
Pennsylvania Dutch and to
learn what the emblems
on grave markers signify.
“Pennsylvania German Humor” is
filled with traditional stories that bring
laughter to the people of southeastern
Pennsylvania.
The book even offers “A True Ghost
Story.” This is a fast-moving tale of
murder and its eerie consequences. It
asks you to explain what happened, if
you can.
An appendix,
“Forearmed in Bilaspur,”
tells of two Lancaster
County men who link up
to hunt tigers in India. This
is all we’ll tell you about
this story, which has a
surprise twist at the end.
The book is richly
illustrated with color
photographs depicting
items made by
Pennsylvania Dutch
craftsmen: tall clocks,
furniture, Conestoga wagon
hardware, quilts, guns, and Amish toys.
Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of
the Pennsylvania Dutch is available at
local bookstores or from Schiffer
Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Road,
Atglen, Pa. 19310 or (610) 593-1777.
About the AuthorGene Moore, a former navy officer, is
a graduate of Auburn University who
earned a master’s degree from Florida
State University. He retired as director of
public relations from Armstrong World
Industries, Inc. A previous book, How
Armstrong Floored America: The People
Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995, was
published by the Lancaster County
Historical Society. He and his wife, Jan,
make their home in Lancaster.
Amish Folk Tales and Other Storiesof the Pennsylvania Dutch
By C. Eugene Moore
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kidney transplant recipient. Fair said her
new kidney is in the right lower quadrant
of her stomach, attached to the artery in
the leg and bladder.
“If you have uncontrollable
hypertension, they will remove the (old)
kidney, but I only had mild hypertension,
so mine wasn’t removed,” she said.
She also gets asked how it feels to have
someone else’s kidney. But Fair doesn’t
think of it that way, she said. She only
thinks about how good it is to no longer
be on dialysis, 10 hours every night, seven
days a week.
“I’m so glad to be rid of it because of
the donation,” Fair said. “Many think of it
as their new birth date. Mine was Feb. 21,
2011. It’s a new life.”
Organ transplants are based on supply
and demand and, currently, the demand is
far greater than the available supply, Fair
said. When there were no airbags in cars
and fewer people were saved from
accidents, there were more cadavers
available. But because airbags are saving
lives, those cadavers are no longer an
option for transplantations.
Therefore, organ donors are needed
more than ever before. In 1987, those in
need of a kidney transplant only had to
wait seven months after first being placed
on the transplant list, Fair said.
But by 2012, the wait had lengthened
to four to six years.
Twelve thousand people meet the
criteria for needing a kidney transplant,
but fewer than half get donors.
“That statistic really struck home,” Fair
said.
Transplant recipients are looking more
and more to living donors since people can
live with only one of their two kidneys. At
Harrisburg Hospital, more than 50 percent
of kidney transplants are due to living
donors, Fair said, quoting Dr. Harold
Yang, a hospital surgeon who helped save
her life.
While kidney disease can be from
hypertension, diabetes, or polycystic
kidney disease, Fair’s kidney problem
stemmed from a birth defect in her
sphincter muscle.
“There was a surgery that could be
done by age 5,” she said, but her diagnosis
at age 21 put her well beyond that point,
and her kidneys slowly deteriorated over
the years.
Fair began journaling about her
experiences with kidney disease in
September 2007. By the fall of 2010, she
needed to go on dialysis, and she
continued writing.
“I had no idea if I would even receive a
kidney, and if I did, how would I get
through the surgery? The recovery period?
Would there be a happy ending? All these
questions remained unanswered,” Fair
said.
“Although I had excellent medical care
... I could not have gotten through this
time in my life without my faith,” Fair
said. “Faith is a choice—it comes from the
heart. You either want to believe or you
don’t. I so believed in God and knew that
he would see me through this most
difficult time. After all, (God) is the
physician of all physicians.”
Fair’s earlier kindness to a young girl
reaped benefits to not only herself, but
another kidney transplant recipient as well.
Because Fair had sponsored Janette
“Jay” Diaz into Milton Hershey School,
Diaz wanted to repay her kindness by
donating her kidney to Fair. But after
testing, the two weren’t a match.
Instead, they were put on the Paired
Donor List for a live match. Diaz matched
a woman in Pittsburgh, and that woman’s
friend, Marlane, matched Fair for a four-
way swap.
“So exciting!” Fair said.
On Feb. 21, 2011, Marlane’s kidney
was flown from the Thomas E. Starzl
Transplant Institute of the University of
Pittsburgh Medical Center to Harrisburg
Hospital, where Fair was waiting for the
lifesaving surgery.
After an excellent recovery, Fair decided
to compile her journal entries and craft
them into a book, Transplanted to Better
Health.
“I wanted to offer hope and
encouragement to patients who were
suffering from kidney failure, or anyone
suffering from a serious illness in general,”
Fair said.
In her memoir, Fair describes the good
and bad days, the ups and downs of
dialysis treatment, waiting for a lifesaving
kidney transplant, and the road to
recovery.
“My story will be familiar for anyone
who has been down the road with kidney
failure, and will uplift and empower those
who are just setting foot on that path,” she
said. “My book is like one patient talking
to another patient.”
But what sets Fair’s book apart from
others is the details in her journals that
only a person with a medical background
would include. Fair is a medical technician
who worked in a doctor’s office.
A signed copy of Fair’s book may be
purchased from Fair by emailing her at
[email protected] or through
Amazon.com as a book or an e-book. To
receive a signed copy, send a check payable
to Fair Book Publishing for $18, which
includes shipping, to: FBP, 1522
Collingdale Circle, Mechanicsburg, PA
17050. To engage Fair as a speaker, contact
her at the above email address.
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