Show nr V--T" March 25 1999 — Page 19 The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday ’Net surfing grandma having a ball By Ann Landers years the boy lived with an aunt a grandmother Creators Syndicate Inc and an uncle Now he is living with me and I plan to keep him He is a wonderful adorable child and DEAR ANN LANDERS: 1 recently read the letter I love him from the daughter whose mother was lonely bitter The problem is his mother gets government benand dependent on her for a efits for this boy She won’t give up the welfare social life You said Mom check and refuses to give me some of the money to needed some extracurricular compensate for raising him She also claims him as activities May I make a few a deduction on her income taxes yet she is nut supsuggestions? porting him at all I am a widow Should I just forget about the money and consider with the physical disabilities the boy my own or should 1 try to convince my sisthat often come with age A take care of him? Your advice would be greatter to year ago my children gave — Ticked Off in Texas ly appreciated me an old computer It You say your sister's son is “a TICKED: DEAR wasn’t too hard to learn adorable child" and you love him His wonderful though I confess it was frustrating at first Every doesn't him and you don't know want mother own Sunday evening our family gets together in a chat what to do? Forget about his mother's chiseling on room so I can talk to my children their spouses and the welfare checks Keep the boy and consider him my grandchildren no matter where we are I've life in And please be aware that you a your blessing learned to surf the ’Net and can send electronic are a blessing in that child's life as well If he musical greeting cards to nieces and nephews They also send me interesting and funny things to let me doesn’t know it now he will later DEAR ANN LANDERS: My father recently know they are thinking of me I am having so much fun there is no time to be lonely passed away He was 95 Right up to the end his If that mother doesn't want a computer she may mind was active and he was alert and aware be interested in tracing her family genealogy and My sister and I were at his bedside along with collecting family photographs Last Christmas I my father’s wife For several days my stepmother insisted on whispering into Dad's ear that it was OK sent my children an album of their childhood pictures awards and report cards They said it was to die OK to let go She urged him “to follow the their favorite gift light” To me it sounded like she was telling him to Being alone can be depressing if you let it I keep give up and get it over with I found this offensive my aches and pains to myself and never criticize I and disturbing When I told her how I felt she insisted she only wanted to make things easier for just listen smile and pray a lot — Cyber Grandma DEAR CYBER GRAM: You sound like my kind Dad What do you say? — Bob in New York of woman — no leaning on others to entertain you DEAR NY: At 95 1 doubt that anything she said — you entertain yourself Your closing mantra is a to your father would have made much difference one way or the other It sounds to me as if the real pearl of wisdom Four cheers lady! DEAR ANN LANDERS: When my sister remarproblem is an undercurrent of hostility between you ried two years ago her new husband did not want to and your stepmother Give it up and let your father raise her son from a previous marriage In those two rest in peace FOR BETTER OR WORSE Peter H Gott MD Newspaper Enterprise Association DEAR DR GOTT: I understand that the human sleep cycle is governed by a balance between melatonin and visual light If this is so why don't blind people have trouble sleeping? DEAR READER: This is a very perceptive question that has stumped the experts for decades In fact blind people do exhibit a high prevalence of sleep disorders More about that in a minute First some basic physiology As a general rule our sleep cycles follow a circadian (daily) rhythm Light is the body’s principal cue to wake up Light signals travel from the eye to the body’s master biological dock located deep in the brain's hypothalamus Among other responses this light shuts off the brain's secretion of melatonin Later after sunset when natural light diminishes melatonin production kicks in and puts us to sleep Given this physiological cycle how can the blind who often cannot perceive light set their biological clocks? According to reports given at a recent joint meeting of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms and the Society for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms researchers may have discovered the answer to the puzzle Blind people may have two pathways to the brain --- one for conscious vision and the second for circadian vision Moreover light exposure to various parts of the skin somehow seems to allow some people to reset their biological clocks The natural internal clock follows a cycle that is typically 24 12 hours long 30 minutes longer than the planetary daynight cycle Thus without alarm clocks or other tricks to anchor them to a if left alone would have cycle blind persons “free run” circadian rhythms causing them to drift around the clock In actual practice more than 80 percent of the blind experience trouble sleeping and maintaining alertness Therefore any method to retrain their circadian rhythms would improve the quality of their lives - real-wor- - FACT ONE OF My PATIENTS HAD A TUMMy tuck recently and She looks - VfeAH-TH- U8T' ToOKIHlft Ey MUCH OFF AND BECAUSE SHEb INTO RECyCUNG SHE HAD THE SCRAPS MADE INTO A FANN- y- j1 IUJANTTo Teayxjwwu ' "PEyuSEOAS A BUTTON HOLE!!! 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