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Anxiety makes you feel like a burden. You don’t want to text your friends, even though you’re dying to hang out with them, because you’re worried they won’t want anything to do with you. You don’t want to walk over and say hello to your crush, even though you’re tempted to make a move, because you’re worried they’re going to look at you funny. You don’t even want to walk up to the cashier, even though you’re next in line, because you’re worried about bothering them.
Fortunately, it reportedly turned out to be a complex migraine – because if it had been a stroke, “she did exactly the wrong thing by waiting and then going home. She should have gone straight to a hospital. Time saved is brain saved,” says Larry B. Goldstein, MD, spokesperson for the American Stroke Association, and director, Duke Stroke Center, Durham, NC. He adds that even though the paramedics “cleared her,” she still should have gone to the hospital immediately. (To be fair, the paramedics may have recommended that but they can’t force someone.)
Beverly Hills is officially the first U.S. city to ban the sale of tobaccoproducts. By 2021, cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes, and other tobacco products will no longer be available at gas stations, convenience and grocery stores, and pharmacies. Special allowances will be made for high-end cigar lounges and hotels, however.
As the weather gets colder, the recurring cough comes along to remind us how frail our lives are. If the winter turns out to be quite vicious, coughs and the diseases which cause coughs seem to be everywhere in larger cities. People typically associated a cough with old age, long-term effects of smoking, or second-hand smoking. Sometimes, it is associated with the natural condition for anyone living in major cities like Lo Angeles, for instance.
