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Thriving at 105 years young
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Thriving at 105 years young

  • Derek Wiley
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Matilda Dorland says the key to a long life is positive thinking. At 105 years old, she would know. “I don’t have any secrets, just always think positive, never be negative,” Dorland said from her bed at Columbia Basin Care Facility. “Even now with the problems I have, I’m still hoping I’ll be able to go home and maybe become a little independent, you know. I never want to think negative. That doesn’t get you anywhere.”

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We wish to thank the many well-wishers for their get well cards, telephone calls, goodie bags, prayers and their most welcome visits during Jack’s stay in the nursing home while receiving treatment for his infected hip and then his hip revision surgeries.

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Ask Dr. K: Remedies relieve knee pain without surgery

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DEAR DOCTOR K: I have osteoarthritis of the knee. Are there ways to relieve my knee pain without drugs or surgery? DEAR READER: Osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease of the joints. If you were to take an X-ray of every bone in the bodies of people over 50, probably most of us would have some degree of osteoarthritis in some joints.