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“Montana Wild Wife” continued…
Is the car registration something
I should have with me?

do all this even though that happened years earlier?
Two things: my deep appreciation for my husband lives endlessly in me and actually livens me. That leads to the second reason. I never wanted one of the marriages that exist in mediocrity. You know, staying alive the same humdrum way every day…  eat breakfast, give a peck on the cheek good-bye, then stare at the evening news together before lying down, snoring, and snorting in sequence like a full orchestrated symphony.
Yikes! I’d rather bust out and break the boredom. I continually find creative ways to chase my husband and compliment him for being such a rarity (or for being willing to be married to one). He is my hero. So, till my dying day I will appreciate him and bring out the best in him. God made me female and He gave me the power to have a great influence on my husband. As a Montana woman, I help to make him who he is, “one in a million.”
Just to confirm everything: after writing this I told my husband, “I just wrote about you.”
He asked, “What is it about?”
I responded, “It’s about you being one in a million.”
He immediately shot back, “Shoot, that’s you!”
What can I say? We are, after all these years, in the habit of always bringing out the best in each other. That is what God intended for a good marriage.

Margie Johnson claims her husband tamed her… “He is nice, but I am normal!” She believes even though growing up poor, you can always afford to laugh. Poverty encouraged her creative humor and homemaking. Margie shares how true richness is experiencing family fun, yet finding calmness in tragedy, as she experienced in losing their young son. These captivating sties educate, entertain, and ease the human soul.
You will have turned the last page of Margie’s book having laughed and cried.
(Courtesy photo)

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Excerpt from
“Montana Wild Wife”
by Margie Johnson

Are you married to one of those “one in a million” Montana men? All right, I know there are barely a million people in Montana, let alone men. But are you married to a rare guy? I am! He is not perfect, but you might confuse him for being that.
Let me back up. Sitting here on my front porch sipping my morning coffee and planning to clan my car today, a particular marriage memory concerning my car tumbled across my mind… a memory worth sharing, so here goes.
One day, flying down the highway in my souped-up, 1998 red Mustang, with loud pipes roaring and 1950s hot rod music blaring, here came those dreaded flashing lights, pulling me over. Doggone it!
Getting stopped for speeding was a first for me. Seriously, I am unfamiliar with the procedure. The officer asked to see my driver’s license and car registration.
Now I am being even more serious with you. I innocently asked, “Is the car registration something I should have with me?”
He nodded toward my dash and suggested, “If you have one, it is probably in your glove compartment.” Meanwhile, as I was digging, he reviewed my driver’s license.
Paperwork has always been my husband’s department in our marriage, so I was hoping he had put the car registration in there. And sure enough, digging deep, I found the envelope he’d boldly entitled “Car Registration.” Not looking inside the envelope, I immediately handed it to the waiting officer.
While he was reading it, I couldn’t help noticing the smile that broke across his face. He handed it back with all the contents now outside the envelope. That is when I noticed a note from my husband on top of the registration. It read, “Honey, if you are reading this, either you got stopped or were in an accident. I just want you to know… it’s okay. I won’t be mad. I am just glad you aren’t hurt and able to read this. I love you, Junior.”
See what I men about being married to a guy who is “one in a million?” I felt that hidden note was worth the price of the speeding ticket I was probably going to get. Because of the discovered love note I would think of the ticket as being handed a bouquet of flowers. To make a long story short, I didn’t get ticketed. However, I was reprimanded and strictly warned to slow down.
Sitting here on my front porch sipping my coffee and enjoying the memory of my husband’s past kindness and thoughtfulness, I still get all revved up! In fact, so mush so I am not only going to clean my car today, but before he gets home, I am going to fix his favorite dinner, freshly polish my 60-some year-old toenails, put on a favorite outfit and then go meet him at his truck after work, hand him a frosted glass of Coke and give him a kiss that will last 10 glorious seconds!
Lastly, I plan to somehow sneak a message on his truck’s rearview mirror before he goes to work tomorrow morning that reads, “Look back, 210 years with you won’t be enough… love, love your wild wife.”
Why am I revved up to do all this even though that happened years earlier?
Two things: my deep appreciation for my husband lives endlessly in me and actually livens me. That leads to the second reason. I never wanted one of the marriages that exist in mediocrity. You know, staying alive the same humdrum way every day…  eat breakfast, give a peck on the cheek good-bye, then stare at the evening news together before lying down, snoring, and snorting in sequence like a full orchestrated symphony.
Yikes! I’d rather bust out and break the boredom. I continually find creative ways to chase my husband and compliment him for being such a rarity (or for being willing to be married to one). He is my hero. So, till my dying day I will appreciate him and bring out the best in him. God made me female and He gave me the power to have a great influence on my husband. As a Montana woman, I help to make him who he is, “one in a million.”
Just to confirm everything: after writing this I told my husband, “I just wrote about you.”
He asked, “What is it about?”
I responded, “It’s about you being one in a million.”
He immediately shot back, “Shoot, that’s you!”
What can I say? We are, after all these years, in the habit of always bringing out the best in each other. That is what God intended for a good marriage

Dawson Ivan-Dean Haughton

Joseph Haughton and Sarah Sullivan welcomed a baby boy on 2/21/2021 at 9:30 p.m.

Dawson Ivan-Dean Haughton weighed

6 lbs .5 oz and measured 20 inches in length.

He was delivered by Dr. Kelli Jarrett.

CONSUMER WATCH:
False Vaccine
Surveys

Submitted by
Montana SMP
(Senior Medicare Patrol)

 

We have received
reports of a new COVID-19 vaccine email scam where people are asked to complete a survey. They offer a free reward but ask people to pay a nominal fee “to cover shipping.”

Survey scams like this are a creative way to steal your identity or money.

Many survey scams offer a reward and give you a limited time to respond if you want to take the survey.

Legitimate surveys will not assign a time limit, nor ask for your credit card or bank account to pay for a reward.

Scammers know people have received vaccines and are capitalizing on it. Don’t give out sensitive information. Fake surveys can be used for a myriad of uses; to steal your information, collect data about you to commit identity theft, or even install malware on your computer when you click on a link in your email.

CMS, the CDC, and the vaccine companies (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) are currently directing all vaccine recipients to enroll in the CDC’s
“V-Safe” program as a
post-vaccine monitoring mechanism. There is no other survey being recommended at this time.

Please contact
Montana Senior Medicare Patrol, or SMP, at
(800)-551-3191 if you have responded to this or a similar vaccine survey email.

“Dear Doc”
COVID-19 Questions

 

Dear Doc, will warm
weather stop the COVID-19 outbreak?

 

It is unlikely that warm weather will stop the transmission of COVID-19. Colder weather creates conditions where the virus transmits easier and probably in
higher doses because folks gather indoors much more in the cooler months.

We know that transmission of the virus is much less outdoors than indoors. We clearly saw a good example of this in Montana and Lincoln County where the outbreak picked up in the summer, but then got much worse in the fall and winter. Fortunately, in the last 3-4 weeks new cases are decreasing, not due to warmer weather, but due to the number of people being careful, the number of people getting vaccines, and the fact that a lot more people have already been infected by the virus.

 

Dear Doc, I am trying to plan my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. Is it OK to have a large gathering if most of the elderly folks are vaccinated?

There are two big issues. First is you do not want to have a celebration that prolongs the pandemic. At what point will a gathering not contribute to further spread of the virus? Currently the U.S. goal and the goal in
Montana is to be able to
vaccinate everyone who wants a vaccine by the end of June.

The current forecast is that the vaccine should
become available to everyone by May. With the estimated number of people who have already had the virus coupled with those who have been vaccinated, we should be at a level of immunity where the risk of prolonging the pandemic with a large gathering will be very low by summer.

Keep in mind many other countries have not begun significant vaccinations yet. Worldwide there will still be a pandemic.

The second issue is
safety. You do not want
anyone attending to get
hospitalized with COVID-19 and/or to develop one of the several post COVID-19
syndromes. Current estimates are that we hope to have safe gatherings by sometime in July.

 

Dear Doc, what is known about young children and COVID-19? can they spread the virus?

Children do get COVID-19 and they do spread the virus.

This is not very apparent to most of us because the majority of young children either do not have any
symptoms or they just have very mild symptoms.

We know this from blood tests done on populations of young children after significant outbreaks this last year. These tests showed that young children had similar rates of infections as adults in their
communities.

It seems that young
children do not spread the disease as easily as adults. This is likely due to the fact that their immune systems knock out the virus quickly so the number of days they can spread the virus is less than for adults.

The amount of virus that young children exhale may be less during their contagious phase as well.

Even though young
children are less likely to transmit the virus, teachers and staff can still get COVID-19 from the students, because they have prolonged
exposure. It remains very important for everyone at schools to be vigilant about masking, distancing, and hand washing so the adults do not get seriously ill.

Hopefully with full
vaccination of teachers and staff and with cases declining, masking, distancing and
frequent hand washing will not be needed next school year.

 

Have a COVID-19 question?

Send your inquiries to:
Dear Doc
1020 Idaho
Libby, MT
59923

 

Dr. Gregory Rice, M.D.