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Service Notice:
Carroll Wagner
• Services for Carroll "Cal" Wagner, 89, of Groton, will be 10:30 a.m., Friday, February 15 at St. John's Lutheran Church, Groton. The Rev. Craig Grams will officiate. Burial will follow in Union Cemetery.
• Visitation will be held at the church on Thursday from 5-7 p.m. with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m.
• Cal died February 9, 2013 at Golden Living Center, Groton.
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The Prairie Doc Perspective
Humbling blisters
• This job can make a guy humble.
• My 99 year old patient was suffering having developed blisters, also called vesicles, all over her lower legs, along with intense itching, redness, swelling,
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and drainage. After discontinuing every unnecessary medication, I treated the possible allergic reaction with a non-sedating antihistamine and steroids. When she didn't get better, I reviewed blisters and once again realized how many causes there are for a blister on the skin.
• Let's start with the viral infection Herpes simplex type I, also called fever blisters or cold sores.*** These large blisters cluster around the face and lips and commonly pop up when the immune system is weakened by a cold.
• A very similar viral blister or vesicular condition is called Herpes simplex type II, but this one is sexually transmitted. These blisters happen in the genitalia of men and women and recur in a similar mysterious way as the sister condition of "cold sore." Anti-herpes medicines do help with both conditions.
• Another blister condition Herpes Zoster, or "chicken pox," also a viral infection and a cousin to Herpes Simplex, presents like a teardrop on a rose petal,*** or a (Continued on page 9)
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