The Health Issue

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CONTENTS |

JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 14 • ISSUE 6

CONT HOME + LIVING

Page 12

FOOD + FUN

Page 38

MIND + BODY

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12 CHATEAU CHIC

36 BON APPETIT

18 THE OBSERVER

38 IS THERE A HOBBY IN THE HOUSE? 52 WE SUPPORT A Dr. Jeffrey Rau introduces his newest HEALTHIER FUTURE

Love at First Sight

The Best of Times?

26 WHAT’S UP, DOC?

Headache and Pain Center South Louisiana Medical Associates

Spicy Shrimp Skillet

hobby on his farm.

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46 COMMIT TO BE FIT

Georgia Malbrough shares her journey through weight loss and fitness.

Men’s Health Month

ENTS EXTRAS

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WORD, YA HEARD

QUINTESSENCE 1. the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form 2. the most typical example or representative

WORD ON THE STREET "For our family, playing outside barefoot until the mosquitos chase you inside is the quintessence of summer. "

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06 EDITOR’S NOTE

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08 INTERVUE Say What?

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EDITOR’S NOTE |

MARY DOWNER DITCH • EDITORIAL DIRECTOR OF POV

STAY HEALTHY

Each June, we feature The Health Issue. In the past we have tackled deep issues like mental heath and fun things like recipes. This year, health has taken on a whole new meaning as we are still coping with COVID-19.

Disclaimer: The beauty of this column is, it is my space to provide an opinion. I am not a medical worker, nor do I pretend to know much about the science of health. Confession: I failed biology twice. So you can imagine my wealth of knowledge is rather shallow.

That said, we are now living in a time where you are expected to somewhat take your health into your own hands. It’s up to me to protect myself and my family. Do I wear a mask, or not? Do I social distance, or not? Do I continue to stay at home, or rejoin society?

It’s tough, with all kinds of opinion-based information constantly being thrown your way. There are so many unknown variables, it makes it hard to make an “informed” decision.

At this point, we have decided to be the family that is cautiously optimistic about re-entering society. John and I get out and do some shopping, but we choose to wear a mask. We have dined out as a family, as well. We wash hands frequently and use hand sanitizer while out.

I might have wiped our table down with my own wipe as well. We have accepted that for the time being, this is our new normal.

I would be remiss if I didn’t use this space to also thank our Healthcare Heroes. Across our nation, healthcare workers have suited up each day, knowingly and

willingly putting themselves in harm’s way to uphold the oath they took. They have witnessed horrible things and miracles all in the same shift. This virus attacks every individual so differently, they never know what to expect. From the doctors and nurses, to janitorial staff and administration, our healthcare workers have given every ounce of their soul to save as many as possible. I, for one, will be forever grateful for their commitment during this battle.

In this Health Issue, we decided to strike a lighter note for our readers. Even in the darkest of hours, we often find a silver lining. We are happy to introduce you to a new hobby and a successful weight loss journey.

Having had his personal private practice deemed nonessential, Dr. Jeffrey Rau found time to explore a new hobby on his farm: chickens! Dr. Rau built a coop to comfortably house up to 20 chickens. Learn more about his new hobby on page 38.

Important to health is physical fitness. Local Georgia Malbrough decided to take her fitness into her own hands after her beach wedding in 2018. Georgia vowed to return to the beach and be comfortable in her own skin. This vow led her to lose 100 pounds in a year. Learn about Georgia’s journey to getting fit on page 46.

Staying healthy is a personal journey for each and every individual. It’s more than just eating right and exercising.

It’s a mental thing, too. Body and mind must align for us to successfully be “healthy”. In these difficult times, I truly hope your journey is successful! POV

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INTERVUE |

SAY WHAT?

How have you maintained your health and wellness during the Stay-at-Home order?

COLLIN “The most important thing for me is to get at least an hour of exercise in no matter what that looks like. It could be lifting weights or playing basketball. Secondly for me is making sure what I eat is going to help get myself to the level of fitness I want to achieve.”

AMBER “We issued a challenge through our studio,Twisted, to do 30 minutes of physical activity everyday for 30 days. We checked in each day through a Facebook group with our workouts. I also hosted free workouts on Zoom, which not only helped me stay physically healthy, but helped me keep in contact with friends and family from all over, which was great for my emotional health. I made sure to spend plenty of time outside everyday with my kids for fresh air and sunlight, which is the best source of vitamin D. I incorporated at least one serving of fruit or vegetables with every meal. Most importantly, I stayed spiritually healthy by reading the Bible daily through the You Version Bible app, which allows you to invite friends to join you in prayer and devotionals.”

JEFF “Mainly we've been compliant. We haven't taken any extreme measures beyond what's been advised. We've been consistent with social distancing. We've washed our hands more often than normal and worn masks at work. And most importantly we have consistently prayed for God's protection over our lives and for the healing of our country.”

CLAIRE “During this stay at home order, I’ve taken time to really connect with my soon-tobe husband. Together we’ve cooked, exercised, and even meditated! I’ve never felt closer to him and it makes me fall more in love with him everyday.”

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HOME + LIVING

CHATEAU CHIC | 12 Love at First Sight

THE OBSERVER | 18 The Best of Times?

WHAT’S UP, DOC? | 26 Headache and Pain Center South Louisiana Medical Associates

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CHATEAU CHIC

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

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Immediately sold by the oak trees and the property, Matthew and Marty Pregeant began planning their home and their future together when Matt proposed in the front yard in a patch of clovers.

An old Southdown Plantation house was on the property and had to be demolished or moved prior to starting construction. The home was built entirely out of rough cut cypress milled from this area.

“The property felt like home the day we bought it. We loved being out there. In fact, we spent so much time just sitting out there in the bed of the truck, just to enjoy its beauty,” Marty recalls.

“After much convincing, Matt and his parents, Tom and Jane, spent a good month removing every nail and every board. Thankfully, we were able to incorporate a lot of the cypress throughout our home,” Marty shares.

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The salvaged cypress can be found throughout the home from the kitchen island, shiplap in the dining room, a desk, mudroom cubbies and even a patio dining table light fixture.

Marty spices up this traditional farm house by adding a bit of unexpected glam. Perfectly balancing the rustic wood is a light and airy color palette, elegant light fixtures and touches of gold. POV

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THE OBSERVER |

BY JAIME DISHMAN

THE BEST

OF TIMES? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of time … we had everything before us, we had nothing before us …”

Has the infamous Charles Dickens quote ever seemed quite so appropriate as the past few months? The entire world has stood still.

Not just one country or one continent, but a worldwide shutdown of the world “as we know it.”

Families stayed home together - Families torn apart by a forced “social distancing.”

Some struggled with an unknown illness and its aftermath - Others had weeks off of work, completing home projects and spent time with loved ones.

“I wouldn’t have wished this on anyone, but we really needed this time to slow down and revisit the way we live our lives” became a phrase heard over and over again.

It was true of our family. School stopped; extra-curricular activities ceased; all sense of obligation to leave the house completely disappeared.

We stayed home, cleaned out closets, painted our garage, went fishing, went crabbing, and kayaked in the bayou behind our house. We ran out of things to do with our free time. We ate nearly every meal together on our back porch.

We asked our kids how they were handling the pandemic. Unanimously, they said the same: “I’m just glad to be home.”

It was the silver lining of the uncertainty - At least we’re home. At least we’re together. Our workplace shut down and then reopened as it became clear we were considered essential. The fragile economy caused us to pause and wonder what the year would look like financially.

We washed our hands multiple times a day, used sanitizer when out and about, and sometimes wore masks. We kept our distance from strangers, made sure to walk on the opposite side of the aisle in the grocery store from other people and didn’t touch anything we didn’t plan on putting in our buggy.

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The kids and I planted a melon patch in my mother in law’s boxed gardens.

We found time to plant for her when our regularly scheduled spring would have never given us the free time to plant a melon patch.

There were moments of boredom.

True boredom. The kind where you say “we’ve played a bunch of board games, did chores, played in the yard, so what else is there to do?”

We prayed for people sick with Covid-19 while thankful for the health of our family and loved ones. It felt surreal to see the numbers of people counted throughout the world with the disease and know it somehow passed us by, allowing us to enjoy our time together unhindered by a crippling sickness.

We have counted the past few months as our “best of times.” Maybe that doesn’t seem right in the face of a worldwide pandemic, but it’s what it has been for us. A time of togetherness, with everything we love before us. Namely, we relearned each other again. With no friends allowed in the house, we learned to entertain each other again. We came up with our own extracurricular around-thehouse activities instead of running all over creation to drop individual kids off at their individual sport of choice for the season.

We’re leaving this time different.

We’ve dropped out of some things and vowed to do family time a little different. We had overfilled our proverbial plate without even realizing we had it so full that things were falling off and falling apart.

We’ve traded more for less, and it seems to be a good trade. POV

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Headache & Pain Center in Gray and New Iberia is an interventional pain practice that relieves pain in a non-surgical manner and without the use of habit-forming drugs, Dr. Ponder says. Patients are treated through methods like healing injections, neutralization of nerves, freezing of nerves or electrical stimulation of nerves.

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The center’s ultimate goal is to help people to return to normalcy and beloved activities that may have been hindered by struggles with pain.

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What makes the center unique, explains Dr. Ponder, is its minimization of computers coming between the staff and its patients.

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As the effects of COVID-19 have caused some medical practices to change the way they operate, Headache & Pain Center has followed suit. Dr. Ponder explains he and his team began adopting protocols to minimize any potential spread before nationwide suggestions were made.

They separated the waiting area to keep patients six feet apart, suggested that families of patients wait in their cars, began taking temperatures of every employee and patient as they entered the office, and surveyed patients to find out if they had experienced any COVID-19 symptoms or traveled recently. In addition, the center has offered telehealth meeting options as alternatives to in-person visits.

Dr. Ponder is proud of the way his team has adapted to the changes made in the way they operate while continuing to ensure that patients are getting the care they need.

“We’re available to people to treat their pain, and we’ll continue to do the excellent job that we do with diagnoses and treatment, but we’re going to do everything that we can to make sure our employees and our patients aren’t exposed to COVID-19,” Dr. Ponder says.

Dr. Ponder developed an interest in pain management in the early 1990s while working as an anesthesiologist. He was drawn to the clinical practice side of pain management that involved interacting with patients and learning how to best serve their needs. In the years of helping patients that followed, Dr. Ponder has continued to share those sentiments. He says the most enjoyable part of his practice is the connections made with people he encounters.

“I enjoy interacting with people, and I enjoy finding out a little but about their lives and what they did for work and where they lived and their lives...and listening to their stories.”

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Ingredients • 20 medium Louisiana shrimp, peeled and deveined • 1 ½ tablespoon olive oil • 1 clove garlic minced • ½ teaspoon ground cumin • ½ teaspoon chili powder • 1/4 teaspoon onion powder optional • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt • 1 tablespoon olive oil • squeeze of lime (optional)

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BY KEELY DIEBOLD PHOTOS BY CHANNING CANDIES As the effects of COVID-19 began to close doors to businesses, schools and offices back in March, the suspension of elective surgeries and non-essential medical care followed suit. For some local medical providers, like Dr. Jeffrey Rau of Rau Plastic Surgery in Houma, a temporary closure of their practices was inevitable.

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However, Dr. Rau’s newfound free time didn’t slow him down. Instead, it led to a brand new hobby: one that involved chickens.

“I can’t just do something simply,” laughs Dr. Rau. “Whenever it’s something fun, something neat like this, especially something that takes some creativity, there’s a big part of me that wants to do it the way that I know it can be done.”

Around the time that the stay-at-home order was implemented, Dr. Rau and his wife Katelyn, an anesthetic nurse at Rau Plastic Surgery, began the process of building a chicken coop in their yard.

Dr. Rau said they had always liked the idea of getting more animals to add to their growing family after moving into a new home with a larger piece of property roughly a year ago.

When the stay-at-home regulations brought the Raus more free time, they decided to finally make their longdiscussed plan of building a coop and adding chickens to the mix a reality.

The coop Dr. Rau would end up building is anything but ordinary, though.

“Just building a simple box for a chicken coop is not something that is enough or satisfying to me at all,” Dr. Rau says.

“I had a lot of little ideas and so forth.

The idea that I eventually went with was a design that kind of resembles my house—the more classic look.”

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“In the afternoons when we get home and see the dogs, it will be nice to go see the chickens, too, and go hang out with them in the coop”

The project took Dr. Rau around six weeks to complete and involved a significant amount of research on how to properly raise chickens. The coop is currently home to seven chickens but has the capacity to comfortably fit over 20 if the Raus decide to get more.

His goal, he says, was to make the life of the chickens “as luxurious” and selfsufficient as possible.

“I did a...little watering tank on the back that feeds the little watering cups down below, underneath the house. I’ve got these other pipes that are supplying the food underneath the house, and I made swings for the porch. I’ve got all these

various roosting spots and a better system that collects my eggs if I should want to use it,” Dr. Rau says.

In addition, Dr. Rau says he added a pergola chicken run that matches the pergola on his home and automatic doors that open when the sun comes up and close when the sun sets. The coop also has wheels to allow it to be moved around the yard.

The concept behind the coop’s design was a combination of inspiration Dr. Rau took from other people, as well as his own vision. He says he wanted to be as efficient as possible when constructing it and cover every necessary element, such as keeping the chickens out of the rain.

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However, he is still finding little additions here and there.

“After the building, I found a little 12-inchby-12-inch mirror and I said, ‘Do chickens like mirrors?” Dr. Rau says. “So I googled that, and they go, ‘Yeah, they love mirrors.

They love looking at themselves.’ So then I found some molding, and I hung a mirror in there.”

Dr. Rau jokes that friends who have seen what the coop looks like have asked if there’s room for them to stay in it if they visit.

“I said, well, I can add a murphy bed or a TV in there for you,” Dr. Rau laughs.

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The addition of fresh eggs falls in line with steps the Raus were already taking at their home toward implementing fresher homegrown foods into their diets.

The couple planted a vegetable and herb garden prior to constructing the chicken coop. Down the line, they hope to add more to their miniature farm like a cow to supply fresh milk.

“My wife likes to cook, and she likes to be as healthy as possible, as do I, so incorporating your own garden into your lifestyle is rewarding and delicious and refreshing...It’s just a really overall very fulfilling thing to do,” Dr. Rau says.

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While he enjoys his work and knows this is not an ideal time to be out of operation since he’s generally at his busiest this time of year, Dr. Rau says he’s thankful for the time he’s gotten at home to spend time with his family and work on his project.

“I didn’t sit at home frustrated over when I’m going to get to go back to work. I would like to. I have a lot of patients that need things done,” Dr. Rau says, “but at the same time it was nice to be able to stay home and kind of reconnect with everything, to do something peaceful like working on a project.”

Even when Dr. Rau’s practice reopens, the low-maintenance setup of the coop will make caring for the chickens as easy as possible.

For example, the food and water supplies are both set to refill on a timer. Dr. Rau says he plans to move the coop every few weeks, but that’s the only significant maintenance it will require.

Even more so, it gives the Raus a little something extra to look forward to when they get home from work every day.

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But before she could do that, there was something she had to put aside.

“Instead of putting on my dress and feeling like a bride — the world revolves around me and it was my day — I felt like I really had to put my emotions aside about my physical appearance so that my loved ones could enjoy my day with me,” she remembers. “You grow up as a little girl wanting to put on a wedding dress and feel like a million bucks. And I didn't.”

The day after the celebration, the bride vowed to return to that beach next July, feeling healthier and more confident — a decision that led her to lose 100 pounds in just a year.

Georgia Malbrough says she used to have an unhealthy relationship with food.

“So the types of food that I was eating and consuming weren't healthy and the amount that I was consuming was just astronomical,” she recalls. “I was just so stressed out and tired of thinking, I would just eat.”

“I felt like I didn't know how to actually process my own emotions with physical activity,” she continues. “I would instead just eat because it was available; it was always there. We grow up surrounded by

food. Throughout childhood, motherhood, all of it, food is a constant, and I turned to food rather than turning to myself because I didn't want to deal with myself.”

The young mother also wanted to obtain a more fit way of life to engage in more physical activity with her three children without feeling exhausted after. “Honestly, a lot of my emotional eating snowballed from my physical insecurity,” Georgia shares. “I couldn't effortlessly get up on the trampoline to join my kids and have a good time with them. And I wanted to be able to do that.”

So she began exercising, however, Georgia had to find a diet that could accompany her physical activity. Previously, she had tried different fad diets, but they didn’t give her the long-term results and healthy feeling she was looking for.

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"I was so sick of it being a mystery to me: I had no idea how my body worked or what it did with the food that I was putting in,” she says. “It was just what everyone else was telling me based off of them making a profit.”

Not satisfied with the diets people were trying to sell to her, she decided to take the power in her own hands by researching medical studies and then learning how the body burns fat, what it does with the calories that are ingested and how to burn those calories.

Georgia says she then quickly put two and two together. “If you burn more calories

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than you eat, then you will burn fat; you will burn that excess body weight,” she explains. “But if you eat more calories than you burn, then your body's constantly putting on a little bit...Even if it's five pounds over a year, your body's constantly at a surplus: you're eating too much, your body can't handle it.”

After looking up a basal metabolic rate (BMR) calculator, Georgia was able to estimate how many calories she could consume to lose weight for her three miles of walking for three days a week.

She then invested in a Fitbit as her workouts progressed and she wanted more accurate numbers to calculate how much she was burning in her workouts and at rest.

“And I think the first time I ever did that and calculated it, I had burned about 2,100 calories,” she remembers, “and my mind was blown that I could eat 1,700 calories because in the past, I would eat around 1,200.”

By incorporating that lifestyle, which is often referred to as the CICO (calories in, calories out) diet, the Houma native was finally able to achieve the results she was looking for. She also found the right local

gym, Melanie B's Powerhouse, to help put her on the path to success as well.

“Working out there has put me in an environment where I’m pushed to succeed no matter how hard I fail,” she shares.

“The daycare is also phenomenal, and the workers love my kids like their own.

I count my blessings every day I show up there because it’s home now.”

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which she has been able to stay active during by using her neighbor’s home gym and her own treadmill and finding different at-home workouts to engage in, Georgia would typically spend an hour and a half at the gym Monday - Saturday mornings.

Along the way of her fitness journey, Georgia has been able to inspire people from around the country. Her story got picked up by Women’s Health Magazine and Yahoo! News. One of her TikTok (@georgia_beth_fitness) videos received over two million views, and she has over 100,000 followers on her page. “Everybody is like, ‘How?’ and I’m like, ‘I have no idea; I aggravate myself,’” she laughs.

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had to struggle to be in shape selling and promoting weight loss. And it's refreshing to see somebody who had the bare minimum and still made it work — who still has to struggle to do it and didn't really gain anything except health and her own benefit rather than money.”

Her original fitness Instagram page, which had 13,500 followers, was hacked, and she was subsequently locked out of it. “I'm not that worried about the followers because the people who needed my page the most found me,” says Georgia, who shared that losing the documentation of her weight loss was what upset her the most. (Her new page is @georgiabethfitness.)

“These women message me from a place where they're really vulnerable and really struggling and I can remember that place and how it feels...It hurts that I can’t help every single person,” she shares. “But a lot of women just say coming to my page helps, seeing that despite how many times life hit me, I got back up. And that means so much to me.”

A hundred pounds lighter, Georgia returned to Destin with her husband Brannon for their one-year anniversary and

You have to fight yourself for yourself: like everything in your head telling you ‘There's no way I'm going to be able to do this...Just say, ‘I'm going to do it no matter what — because I deserve that." felt better than she did on her wedding day, she says. “It was so relieving to be there with Brannon and not think about what I was wearing, if my shirt was clinging the wrong way or if he thought I looked good,” she continues. ”I was just fully present. I'm glad we got that.”

And she still puts on that wedding dress every couple of months: “I know exactly how that dress felt when I first put it on, so I knew every time if it felt different that I was making either emotional progress, physical progress or just actual measurement progress.”

The local inspiration hopes that anyone looking for a healthier lifestyle can learn to fall in love with the process and doesn’t put any physical expectations on themself.

“Just put in work that you know is your 100 percent best, and you will see results,” she says. “And don't give up.”

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MEN’S HEALTH MONTH The COVID-19 pandemic that has turned our world upside down emphasizes the need for all of us to safeguard our health During June, designated as national Men’s Health Month, awareness turns to men and boys to practice healthy living decisions such as exercising, eating nutritiously and practicing preventive medicine.

Recognized as “silent crisis,” men are dying an average of five years younger than women and lead in nine of the ten top causes of death in the U.S. Statistics from the Men’s Health Network show that in Louisiana the average male life expectancy is 72.7 years and 81.2 years for females.

early symptoms for high blood sugar or high cholesterol levels. However, a doctor can check for these with a simple blood test.

The National Institute of Health (NIH) encourages men ages 40 to 64 to visit a provider regularly, even if they feel healthy, for: • Routine screenings; • Assessing medical risks; • Healthy lifestyle information;

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• Updating vaccinations;

The biggest threat to men’s longevity may be a lack of awareness of their own health needs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), men are less likely to have regular contact with a doctor over their lifetime and are half as likely as women to seek preventive health exams.

• Getting to know the provider better in case of illness.

Men also tend to ignore symptoms or delay seeking medical care when they are sick or in pain. Their devotion to work may contribute to this behavior, as CDC studies show they are less likely than women to take off work for health issues.

At age 50 men should also begin screenings for colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and osteoporosis. The NIH also recommends annual lung cancer screenings for men ages 55 to 80 who are long-term smokers or may have quit within the past 15 years.

Other general health reminders include: • Annual flu shot;

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• Pneumonia vaccine starting at age 65;

Overall, medical professionals recommend that men start taking better care of themselves and visit health care providers regularly. These visits can help to avoid problems in the future. For example, the only way to detect high blood pressure is to check it regularly. Likewise, there may be no

• Shingles vaccine after age 50; • Tetanus-diphtheria (Tdap) booster every 10 years; • Annual or bi-annual dental exam; • Regular eye exams.

For more information on health and wellness contact Thibodaux Regional Wellness Education Center, 985.493.4765.

Times May Be Different But Our Commitment to Your Safety and Well-Being Remains the Same

While we have always adhered to the strictest safety protocols, as we move toward once again fully providing all healthcare services, we have put extra safety precautions in place.

If you have had to delay your medical care due to COVID-19, we encourage you to speak with your healthcare provider so that something routine doesn’t become something serious.

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UNDER THE SCOPE |

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MAKING DO

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I like the smell of Neutragena soap. Probably most of the world does, too. I can’t figure out what makes the pleasant scent, though. Some people say it’s citrussy.

Some say it’s almondy. And there’s no official list of ingredients that would solve this dilemma. It’s probably a secret, like the recipe for Coca-Cola. According to handwritten notebooks from its very early days, Coke is flavored by combined extracts of orange, lemon, lime, vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, coriander, and neroli. I know all those smells except neroli. Maybe Neutragena contains neroli.

Among my all-time favorite aromas, the creamy-sweet scent of Neutragena soap ranks just second to distant barbequing and nearby fried chicken, which are tied for first. The soap smells so good that sometimes I wonder what it tastes like. But, after the Tide Pods tasting parties of 2018 didn’t turn out so good for teenagers (each of whom apparently took too seriously his mother’s threats to “wash your mouth out with soap”), I decided against trying it. Besides, you gotta be really careful with Neutragena soap down here in PoV country. I can still hear people say “Don’t use that! It’s made from nutras!”

And it only compounds this misconception when the color of the original transparent soap bar is the same shade of orange as a nutria’s front teeth.

The reason Neutragena soap is on my mind is because it’s on my hands. I’ve been using little bars of Neutragena soap these days because it’s hard if not impossible to find liquid hand soap on the shelves. And, for obvious reasons, we’ve all been washing hands a lot recently. Lots of things have disappeared from shelves or gone out of stock over the past three months, making people make do with what they have.

What a simple but powerfully affirmative statement that is! “Make do.” Verb and object—no other word needed. Stands for “Go make do,” which means “You go make do,” which in turn means, “Use what you got” or “Make it work,” sometimes implying “Get over it, too.”

Making do is actually good practice in the art of problem solving.Consider a hungry kid of the 1960s shouting, “Hey, I can’t find no cans of potted meat!” to which a mother would shout back “Make do with some viennas!” Or, more primitively, “Hey I can’t get no milk out of this coconut!” which teaches you to swing to a different fruit tree and dig your thumbs into the soft peeling of a banana. It’s the same process: I have no liquid hand soap but I got some solid Neutragena. I made do.

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After all these years, I can still hear Mom and Maw-maw admonishing, “Just make do” and “Make do with what you got,” dismissing the kiddish belief that anything was instantly available to me. In the time when I was first learning the meaning of spoken words, I always thought the command “Go make do” was one of my mom’s thinly veiled attempts to encourage potty-training.

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I was mistaken. And even the teardrying affirmations in the aftermath of Hurricane Betsy are still familiar, as we faced flood damage, downed trees, a ripped roof, no electricity, no schools, and no fresh foods. “We just gonna have to make do,” she said.

Of course, for Mom and Maw-maw it was natural to make do. After all, they were semi-professional hoarders and not all that honte about it. They knew what they were doing: They knew to keep cans and keys, bottles and buttons, Indian pennies and buffalo nickels, photographs, letters, labels, and scraps of anything in stow. Even Coca-Cola bottles from the days it contained cocaine with its neroli. It was part of their generations spent in their little fishing village with a no-cash economy, where they spent a World War and then a Depression and then another World War. They kept everything. Everything had value. Nothing was disposable or not recyclable. It’s easy to say “Make do” when you have a chifforobe or shed or attic full of stuff that might be useful one day in the future. Sorta like the strategic national stockpile, except that back then they would more readily share supplies with people in need.

I attended a conference out-of-state once where I heard a lecture on the heritability of behaviors, like practical skills, planning ahead, and even hoarding and “making do.” They called it “forward thinking” and “preparatory instinct” and told that early preparation of animal hides and furs and fire-cured meat for upcoming winters was what helped early humans survive as a population. That was the take-home message of the lecture. The little bars of Neutragena soap from the hotel were take-home, too. All of them. From each room service. POV

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Tickets are $30; cost includes rodeo entry, entry into the door prize drawing, including a $500 cash drawing, and a shirt. The door prize and cash drawing will be done Sunday beginning at 2:30 through an online platform. The silent auction will be online as well. All proceeds benefit charitable causes aimed at restoring the Gulf Coast, the promotion of education to those less fortunate, and other important local causes.

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Join the Houma-Terrebonne Chamber for a new virtual event! "Pitch your Niche" is perfect for anyone wanting to pitch their 5-minute elevator speech about their business and network. Think about it as expanding your network, promoting your business/services, and getting to catch up with your fellow Chamber members all in one event. Due to the format of the event, please note that there is limited space.

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Lafourche Central Market Grand Reopening June 6, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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Stop by and support local farmers and craft vendors as the Lafourche Central Market hosts their grand reopening.

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Relay for Life of Terrebonne Virtual Event June 20, 7-8 p.m.

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