By Elliott Brack
Editor and Publisher, GwinnettForum
JAN. 28, 2020 | For over a year, I have had this continual cough. It’s not a cough from a cold, but an occasional tickling of the throat that brings on a cough. Sometimes it erupts into a “coughing fit,” with the best remedy a cough drop. That lubrication somehow stops the cough. It could happen two or three times a day, and even awaken me at sleep.
On two occasions I mentioned it to my doctor, though there was no obvious suggestion.
Then reading a newsletter to which I subscribe, there was a small paragraph from another reader, who had the same problem. Her remedy: stop taking one of her medications. It is Lisinopril. This person said her cough stopped in a couple of days upon her stopping taking it.
The medication is for high blood pressure. After talking to my doctor, he suggested stopping it, and see what would happen. Sure enough, the coughing stopped. By the way, cough is one of the systems the medicine says can occur. Another blood pressure medicine seems sufficient for me now.
From Germany, we hear once more from Larry Zani, in Kaiserslauten:
‘The Army Community Service office in Kaiserslautern, Germany, has a coupon program to help benefit U.S. military families in the area on their purchases at the local military commissary. Coupons are sent in from individuals and organizations back in the U.S. to help the families save money on their food and other purchases. The commissaries benefit too by receiving a processing fee on all redeemed coupons (and that potentially saves all taxpayers).
“Plus, most coupons are good for up to six months after their expiration dates in the U.S. So, no need to throw away expired coupons back home, just send them along for the ACS program over here.”
The mailing address is:
COMMANDER, USAG Rheinland-Pfalz
Army Community Service (Coupon Program)
Attn: IMRP-MWA
Unit 23152
APO, AE 09054-3152
Washington Newspaperman Robert Semple Jr., commentating once about the late newspaper columnist Russell Baker, who wrote about President Richard Nixon on the campaign trail, quotes Baker: “There were darknesses in his (Nixon’s) soul that seemed to leave his life bereft of joy. He was a private, lonely man who never seemed comfortable with anyone, including himself, a man of monumental insecurities for whom public life, I thought, must be a constant ordeal.”
Semple adds: “In those two sentences lie a good part of the explanation of Watergate.”
Makes you wonder what someone years from now will write about Donald Trump.
No one has asked, but you may realize that there are three types of stories that you never see in GwinnettForum. It might relieve some publicity chairman to know of this, which we have never mentioned before.
Don’t expect to see in this publication stories concerning a promotable day, week or month, no matter how good the intention. (Such as, “It’s National Donut Day!”) And do not expect to see stories either about upcoming golf tournaments or beauty contests. There are so many of them. Mainly, to us and we suspect to our readers, these are events of interest only a limited number of people, so we choose not to publicize them.
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