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Denton Record-Chronicle
LOCAL/NATIONAL
Sunday, August 10, 2014
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Animals with rabies, distemper on rise
T
I he number of animals
with rabies and distem-
per is on the rise this year
says Brian Hall, who is contract-
ed by the town of Argyle to han-
dle animal control duties.
Hall said when skunks are af-
fected with the viruses, the noc-
turnal animals are seen outside
during the day and that both vi-
ruses cause skunks to have
strange behaviors, such as walk-
ing in a drunken state or run-
ning in circles.
He explains that there is a
difference in the behavioral pat-
terns between the two diseases.
Rabies makes the animal ag-
gressive, charging at objects or
people, and fearless. Distemper
makes the animal lethargic,
with no energy, and consumed
with weakness to the point of
dying. Also, with distemper the
animal’s eyes are matted and in-
fected to the point of causing
blindness while rabies does not
affect the eyes.
Hall says wildlife becomes
stressed when their habitat is
destroyed, or after natural disas-
ters and extreme winters. Since
skunks like to burrow, people
should check under their sheds,
Lynn Sheffield
Simmons
THE PLACE IS ARGYLE
decks and houses. Pets need to
be vaccinated annually, Hall
said, suggesting that people con-
tact a wildlife specialist if skunks
are living on their property.
For more information, call
Hall at 817-401-1861.
Argyle Senior Center
The Argyle Senior Center
“Back-to-School” luncheon will
be at noon Friday.
ASC president Stella McDa-
niel asks that women bring her
photographs of their mothers
and the men bring photographs
of their fathers to the Argyle Se-
nior Center on Wednesday. The
Argyle Police Department will
furnish the meat for Friday’s
luncheon, while seniors are
asked to bring a side dish.
At 9 a.m. Friday, the Argyle
Senior Center Bible study will
have refreshments at the begin-
ning of the program. The public
is invited. For more information,
contact Larry Simmons at 940-
464-3368.
Argyle Senior Center meets
every Wednesday and Friday in
the Argyle Town Hall Commu-
nity Room, 308 Denton St. Bi-
ble study begins at 9 a.m., fol-
lowed by exercise at 10 a.m. and
card games at 11 a.m.
For more information, call
McDaniel at 940-464-7438 or
visit www.argyleseniorcenter.
com.
Days gone by
The A.G. Schnably house
was the oldest house in Argyle.
Herman Fehleison and his sons
built the house in the 1880s for
Schnabley, the ticket agent for
the Texas and Pacific Railroad.
The house had a front gable,
a turret and a fancy wraparound
porch. According to a 1952 arti-
cle in the Denton Record-Chron-
icle, the house was built one
room at a time. It took two days
Veteran skydives to raise funds
By David Sharp
Associated Press
Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills
and his team from the 82nd Air-
borne were checking out reports
of improvised explosive devices
in Afghanistan when one deto-
nated underneath him.
His right arm and leg disin-
tegrated. His other leg dangled
and his remaining wrist was
shredded.
Mills eventually lost all four
limbs. These days, he’s making it
his mission to help other
wounded warriors, hosting a
camp for them in Maine and
traveling the country as a moti-
vational speaker.
“Hey, I’m wounded. I have
scars. But I don’t need a violin
playing behind me with sad mu-
sic to make me feel like a sob sto-
ry,” he said. “Get on with life.”
On Saturday, Mills showed
he’s getting on with his life in a
big way by jumping from an air-
plane along with the wife of
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, first la-
dy Ann LePage, with a para-
chute team to raise money for a
veteran center and museum in
Fort Kent.
Mills said he wants to help
others, especially veterans
who’ve suffered debilitating in-
juries. That’s the reason for the
camp, the fundraiser and his vis-
its with injured veterans and vic-
tims of the Boston Marathon
bombings.
He doesn’t dwell on the day
he nearly died, but he isn’t shy
about discussing it. He and fel-
low soldiers re-enacted the
scene for a documentary, Tra-
vis: A Soldier’s Story.
Mills, who was on his third
deployment, said April 10, 2012,
started as a routine foot patrol.
The area had been checked
twice for land mines, but the im-
provised explosive device buried
in the ground was made from
glass and plastic instead of metal
to evade detection.
It exploded when he dropped
his backpack.
Conscious of his injuries, he
barked at a medic to help others,
thinking he was a goner, before
he was eventually sedated.
He awoke four days later —
on his 25th birthday — to learn
he had no limbs.
The former 6-foot-3, 230-
pound athlete spent 19 months
in rehabilitation, and his recov-
ery has been remarkable.
to haul the lumber by oxen and
wagon from Fort Worth.
The house was located on a
high point east of what is now
U.S. Highway 377. Thousands of
motorists passing through Ar-
gyle saw and admired the old
house until it burned down in
the 1950s.
LYNN SHEFFIELD SIM-
MONS is founder and past
president of the North Texas
Book Festival Inc. She is the
author of 10 children’s hooks
and two history hooks on Ar-
gyle. Her website is www.
ArgyleBooks.com She can be
reached at Lynn@argylebooks.
com.
Pat Brown/Courtesy photo
The A.G. Schnably house was the oldest house in Argyle until
it burned down in the 1950s.
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Peripheral Neuropathy WARNING!
Denton, Tx - The most common
method your doctor will recommend
to treat your neuropathy is with pre-
scription drugs that may temporarily
reduce your symptoms. These drugs
have names such as Gabapentin, Lyr-
ica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin, and
are primarily antidepressant or an-
ti-seizure drugs. These drugs may
cause you to feel uncomfortable and
have a variety of harmful side effects.
Figure I: [Notice the very small blood
vessels surrounding each nerve.
Peripheral neuropathy is a result of
damage to the nerves often causing
weakness, pain, numbness, tingling,
and the most debilitating balance
problems. This damage is commonly
caused by a lack of blood flow to the
nerves in the hands and feet which
causes the nerves to begin to degen-
erate due to lack of nutrient flow.
As you can see in Figure 2, as the
blood vessels that surround the
nerves become diseased they shrivel
up which causes the nerves to not get
the nutrients to continue to survive.
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Figure 2: When these very small
blood vessels become diseased they
begin to shrivel up and the nerves
begin to degenerate.
When those nerves begin to “die”
they cause you to have balance prob-
lems, pain, numbness, tingling, burn-
ing, and many additional symptoms.
The main problem is that your doctor
has told you to just live with the prob-
lem or try the drugs which you don’t
like taking because they make you feel
uncomfortable. There is now a facility
right here in Corinth that offers you
hope without taking those endless
drugs with serious side effects. (See
the special neuropathy severity exam-
ination at the end of this article.)
In order to effectively treat your neu-
ropathy, three factors must be deter-
mined.
1) What is the underlying cause?
2) How much nerve damage
has been sustained?
NOTE: Once you have sustained 85%
nerve loss, there is likely nothing that
we can do for you.
3) How much treatment will
your condition require?
The treatment that is provided at
Swisher Chiropractic has three main
goals:
1) Increase blood flow
2) Stimulate small fiber nerves
3) Decrease brain-based pain
The treatment to increase blood flow
utilizes a specialized low-level light
therapy (not to be confused with la-
ser therapy) using light emitting di-
ode technology This technology was
originally developed by NASA to as-
sist in increasing blood flow.
The low level light therapy is like wa-
tering a plant. The light therapy will
allow the blood vessels to grow back
around the peripheral nerves and
provide them with the proper nutri-
ents to heal and repair. It’s like adding
water to a plant and seeing the roots
grow deeper and deeper.
Figure 3: The blood vessels will grow
back around the nerves much like a
plant1 s roots grow when watered.
The amount of treatment needed to
allow the nerves to fully recover var-
ies from person to person and can
only be determined after a detailed
neurological and vascular evaluation.
As long as you have not sustained at
least 85% nerve damage there is hope!
Dr. Bao Thai DC at Swisher Chiro-
practic will do a neuropathy severity
examination to determine the extent
of the nerve damage for only $49.
This neuropathy severity examina-
tion will consist of a detailed sensory
evaluation, extensive peripheral vas-
cular testing and a detailed analysis of
the findings of your neuropathy
Due to the overwhelming num-
ber of patients who are seeing LIFE
CHANGING IMPROVEMENTS,
we are going to continue to offer our
neuropathy vascular severity exam
until the end of this month.
“Last night was the first night in years I felt NO
PAIN in my legs and feet. I have been depressed for
such a long time. You are a fool not to do Dr. Thai’s
peripheral neuropathy treatment program.
- Regina, Denton”
Call 940-220-6752 to make an ap-
pointment with Dr. Thai to determine
if your peripheral neuropathy can be
treated. Most major health insuranc-
es are accepted including BCBS, Aet-
na, Humana, and Medicare.
NOTE: Swisher Chiropractic is locat-
ed in Corinth. We are on the northeast
corner of Swisher Rd and Garrison.
The patient and any other person responsible for payment has a right to
refuse to pay cancel payment, or be reimbursed for payment for any other
service, examination or treatment that is performed as a result of and within
72 hours of responding to the advertisement for the free, discounted fee, or
reduced fee service, examination or treatment.
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