Life

Dear Dr. Roach: Several weeks ago, I noticed that my face was swollen in front of my ear. I went to my primary doctor. He put me on Augmentin and methylprednisolone, but that did not work and the area is still swollen.

A “statement necklace” is a cool way to spark up your summer look without adding more clothes. It lets you look “dressed up” without having to change into something more formal.

It’s a classic extortion racket.

Organizing a boob cruise in Victoria isn’t as easy as one might think. Monty’s Reunion Boob Cruise is a three-hour trip on a 95-foot luxury yacht, poised to sail on Aug. 24. There will be booze, music and dancing.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am nearing the age of 70 and have been on Flomax (tamsolusin) for benign prostatic hyperplasia (an enlarged prostate) for three years.

After reading the famed diary of Englishman Samuel Pepys, Andrew Burke was inspired to put pen to paper to record his own private thoughts.

Dear Dr. Roach: I have had coronary bypass surgery and I take cholesterol medicine. I have significant muscular weakness from my medicine. If the medicine affects muscles, what about my heart muscle? My ejection fraction has started going down. B.K.

Here’s a possible Trivial Pursuit question: “What’s the fastest growing unpaid profession in North America?” I admit I wouldn’t have known the answer. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, more than 65.

Ziauddin Yousafzai thought the Taliban might come for him. Only him. For years, he’d run schools that educated girls in Pakistan’s Swat Valley District. And the threats came regularly. “We took it for granted they would never go for a child.

When James Garner died last weekend, many of us felt as if we had lost an old friend.