lifestyles
ACHOO!
By Casey Barnes
Knapsock staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Fighting a runny nose and itchy eyes is becoming a way of life for Chrissy Campobasso.
Graphic by Noah Musser
Campobasso, Kansas City, Mo., senior,
suffers every fall and spring through the
dreaded allergy season. She is not alone in
her misery.
"Ihave to take this pill before I go to bed, use this spray when I wake up and always carry this inhaler with me," Campobasso said, as she rummaged through her piles of allergy medicine. "But I'm used to it."
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said that two out of three Americans suffered from hay fever, which is caused by various types of pollen in the air.
This year the ragged pollen is at its worse, sending victims of allergies sniffing and sneezing across campus in what many say is the worst allergy season in years.
But Yockey said fall allergies are always a problem.
The week after Labor Day, more than half of the visits to Watkins were students with allergies.
She spent Labor Day weekend in bed because her eyes were swollen shut.
Effie Sullivan, Hugoton junior, said her allergies were definitely worse this year.
"Allergies make me miserable and tired."
Sullivan said, "For two weeks I couldn't do homework because my eyes hurt so bad. I always carry three handkerchiefs around with me and they're usually wet."
This magnified ragweed pollen can cause all kinds of sniffles and sneezes. This year, it is wreaking all kinds of havoc.
Sullivan said one reason her allergies were so bad this season was because she could not take prescription medicine. She is preparing to be tested for allergy shots, a solution she hopes will help alleviate her symptoms in the future.
But Yockey said that shots only help one out of four adults with their allergy problems.
Prescription medications are the best way to deal with the symptoms of allergies. "Prescription medicines may cost more
Yockey said trying to get someone off over-the-counter nose spray could be challenging.
than over-the-counter drugs, but they have less side effects and are much safer," Yockey said. "Over-the-counter medications should be avoided at all costs. There is no instant relief, they cause sedation and they can be addictive."
He once had a patient who had to walk down the aisle of her wedding carrying nose spray because she could not breathe without it.
Robert Wright, Wichita junior, knows how addictive allergy medicine can be.
He said it was difficult to enjoy himself during allergy season without taking medicine. But he takes so much of some medicines that his body has become immune, he said.
"Football season is no fun when you can't function properly," Wright said. "You're sitting in the stands sniffing and feeling miserable and all you want to do is take a pill. It's frustrating when your medicine doesn't work."
Yockey said the worst part of the fall allergy season is coming to an end.
The wait is almost over.
"It is already getting better," Yockey said.
"The week of Labor Day is always the worst, but patients will start coming in feeling better."
The amount of pollen was stable until August 15 when the count reached 247, Yockey said. It increased to 2,900 the week of Labor Day, and the pollen will not be completely gone until there is a hard freeze toward the end of November.
Until then, Yockey said the only real relief was to avoid the outdoors.
"Stay inside and run the air conditioner," he said.
news of the weird
LEAD STORY
Desmond Morris' latest documentary, "The Human Animal: The Biology of Love," now on TV in England, will appear on U.S. cable TV in January and picture a human orgasm—from inside the vagina. A tiny camera, similar to those used for exploration of the colon, was placed inside Wendy Duffield, 31, and another was strapped onto her husband's penis. The couple reportedly had sex about 60 times to assure sufficient footage.
SCHEMES
Delaware prison officials decided in July to allow condemned murderer Nelson Shelton to undergo a kidney removal at public expense so that he could donate the organ to his mother. The state initially refused to pay but relented when Shelton played his trump card: He threatened to use all of his legal rights to appeal his sentence, which would cost the state hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In June, South Charleston, W. Va., inmate Robert Dale Shepard, in jail on robbery charges, escaped from a recree-
ation yard by braiding dental floss into a rope that he used to scale a fence. To prevent such occurrences, the state of Maine prohibits inmates from having dental floss. But in July, Portland inmate Michael Tuck, 31, filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming that the policy hinders his ability to fight tooth decay.
In June, Michael Frazier, the "lifestyle" editor of the daily newspaper in Oak Ridge, Tenn., was charged with attempted murder of the husband of a woman he had written about. According to police reports, Frazier and Lisa Whedbee began an affair shortly after he interviewed her. In a plot to kill John Whedebe, Frazier was supposed to pose as a robber-intruder and stab John while Lisa stood
In February, a federal court in California dismissed the complaint of Jogaezak Karkhan against the director of the FBI and about two dozen other defendants for harassing him. The other defendants included President Bush, "the Queen of England," French President Mitterrand, the San Francisco Chronicle, some college professors, several street gangs in Hong Kong, "the drug carol," H. Ross Perot, Newman, Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Dennis Hopper, Phil Donahue, "the founders of Israel," Olive North, and a "humanoid alien extraterrestrial leader speaking Greek."
by with a baseball bat and pretended to defend John. According to John, Frazier seemed tentative, causing Lisa to break character and yell to Frazier, "You've got to do it, just do it now."
In July, Mollie Brusstar, 48, was convicted of two counts of embezzlement from the Catholic Diocese of Arlington. Va., where she had been employed in administration. According to the prosecutor, Brusstar put imaginary employees on the rolls and issued their paychecks to herself. She and a sister went to Utah and, posing as nuns, used the money to obtain dental work and cosmetic abdomen-reduction surgery. Brusstar's defense was that a monsignor had approved everything, but he was unavailable to testify, having committed suicide in the interim after being accused of molesting a parishioner.
FEUDS
In August, to end a feud in Concordia Sagittaria, Italy, a judge ordered Maria Bruna Bortolussi to keep her talking blackbird away from neighbor Norina Miorin, after Miorin testified the Bortolussi had taught the bird to say, in Italian, "Norina, I'm going to kill you." The two were fussing over a garden.
In June at Minot, N.D., a woman ran into a police station asking for protection from her husband, who was chasing her. Before police could get to her case, they found the couple outside in the parking lot facing off, with each pointing a chain saw at the other.
LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS
■ In November, in St. Joseph, Mo., Michael Gene McCrary, 37, was charged with attempted robbery of a barber shop. He walked in, reportedly slightly inebriated, pretending to have a gun in his pocket, and said to barber Fred Robertson, "Set 'em up." When Robertson requested clarification, McCrary replied, "You know what I mean." A customer walked outside and summoned police.
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