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Speaker 1: Well, great Sunday evening to everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti, So
Speaker 1: glad you're able to join in this evening. Maybe huddled
Speaker 1: around a fireplace in your house. It is starting to
Speaker 1: get cold. This is a storm like we have never seen,
Speaker 1: or at least at least for the past twenty years
Speaker 1: or so. But it is a big deal. We have
Speaker 1: to be very careful. I'll talk about that in a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, but the weather certainly is on everybody's mind,
Speaker 1: not only here in Texas, but around the country. The
Speaker 1: inauguration is being moved inside because of the cold weather,
Speaker 1: and many parts of the US are just getting hit
Speaker 1: with very cold, snowy weather. So I'm glad you tuned
Speaker 1: in tonight. We'll talk about all of that now. To
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Speaker 1: so the weather now, for the past several years, the
Speaker 1: Glotti household has really fit. There's lots of news websites
Speaker 1: that have weather, but we have been really enjoying Space
Speaker 1: City Weather and it is space cityweather dot com and
Speaker 1: they're a local group here based in Houston, and I
Speaker 1: think they really give a very very detailed analysis of
Speaker 1: any kind of weather, be it hot, be it dry, hurricane, tornado, locust,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Space City Weather is my favorite place
Speaker 1: to go to and if you want an update to
Speaker 1: try to figure out what's going on, I would say
Speaker 1: go there. So the latest posting from about three forty
Speaker 1: this afternoon, it looks like the amount of snow between
Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday in Houston. If you look at Houston
Speaker 1: as the epicenter, about four inches, the Woodlands about four
Speaker 1: inches going up to Luffkin four inches, Crockett two, Beaumont
Speaker 1: Port author between four and five, Lake Jackson two going
Speaker 1: out to Victoria a little less two inches, but basically
Speaker 1: in the two to four inches of snow, which I
Speaker 1: believe since two thousand and four was the last time
Speaker 1: we had that kind of of snow. Worst case scenario
Speaker 1: is mapped out it eight inches, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: with a one in ten chance, but it could get
Speaker 1: a lot worse. And of course the other thing is
Speaker 1: when is this all going to happen. It's probably going
Speaker 1: to happen Tomorrow evening into Tuesday, should clear up, but
Speaker 1: it's going to remain cold, and that's where the freezing
Speaker 1: part comes in, and there's going to be car accidents,
Speaker 1: there's going to be people slipping, pipes are gonna break,
Speaker 1: and we have to be, you know, really really very
Speaker 1: careful there On Wednesday, temperature wise, nineteen degrees in Houston,
Speaker 1: sixteen in the Woodlands, fifteen in Huntsville, Victoria sixteen, So
Speaker 1: it's still going to be below freezing. So you have
Speaker 1: to be very very careful. Now when we talk about
Speaker 1: these weather emergencies in a sense from a health standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's what I do. Are you prepared? Do you have
Speaker 1: two to five to seven days worth of medicines? Now
Speaker 1: what I would say tomorrow Monday, you should be okay.
Speaker 1: If you need to get out to a pharmacy to
Speaker 1: get refills, though I'm sure they're all going to be inundated.
Speaker 1: Do you have enough food now when this storm comes in?
Speaker 1: Do you call nine to one one if you are
Speaker 1: having a medical problem, or do you drive to the
Speaker 1: hospital now. Of course, the worst thing you want to do,
Speaker 1: say Monday night into Tuesday. You don't want to be
Speaker 1: on the road driving to the er, either by yourself
Speaker 1: or with somebody else. So you may want to rely
Speaker 1: on calling nine to one one, but you don't want
Speaker 1: to over abuse it. So tomorrow, I would say, starting tonight,
Speaker 1: take inventory. How are you feeling right now? Do you
Speaker 1: feel like you're coming down with something or are you
Speaker 1: a little bit more short of breath? Do you have
Speaker 1: stomach pain, headaches, whatever it may be. Tomorrow is your
Speaker 1: day eight o'clock check in with your doctor to see
Speaker 1: if you can get that issue resolved now early, rather
Speaker 1: than going until four o'clock tomorrow when all hell is
Speaker 1: going to be breaking loose and the city is going
Speaker 1: to be paralyzed. So again it is an ounce of prevention,
Speaker 1: and don't wait till things get too bad, because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the worst time to try to get out
Speaker 1: there or try to get help. All right, I'm doctor
Speaker 1: Joe Glotti. We're going to continue this conversation in just
Speaker 1: a moment. Doctor Joglotti dot com is our website. Stay
Speaker 1: tuned we'll be right back. Welcome back, everybody. Doctor Joe Galotti,
Speaker 1: I think this song is a little ironic. Considering I
Speaker 1: hear this song, I think I should be at the
Speaker 1: beach in a baiting suit. Instead I'm in a snowmobile suit.
Speaker 1: But hopefully puts a little smile on your face as
Speaker 1: we deal with this impending weather issue. And my main
Speaker 1: take home message as a physician, somebody to communicate with
Speaker 1: you few things. Number One, as I said earlier, tomorrow
Speaker 1: is your free day. Early, I would say before two o'clock.
Speaker 1: Get the medicine you need, get the food, Situate yourself
Speaker 1: for two or three days of maybe being a little
Speaker 1: out of touch. Like I said earlier, if you're not
Speaker 1: feeling good tonight, or you had a rough weekend, or
Speaker 1: you're not quite sure how the next couple of days
Speaker 1: is going to be, don't rely on let's see. Let's
Speaker 1: give it another day or two, because in two days
Speaker 1: you're going to be the city's going to be paralyzed.
Speaker 1: So tomorrow morning, check in with your doctor, see if
Speaker 1: you could have a tell, a medicine visit, a phone
Speaker 1: visit to try to get some direction on your health issue.
Speaker 1: The other thing, if you have appointments Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 1: See you know, call now to switch the appointment instead
Speaker 1: of getting falling behind. Because so many of our offices
Speaker 1: we're going to have to reschedule people, So get in
Speaker 1: early on that. The other thing is this is a
Speaker 1: little bit of the community approach to taking care of
Speaker 1: one another. If you know a relative, a friend, an
Speaker 1: older person, a neighbor that has a questionable housing situation.
Speaker 1: They may have a less than reliable heater, drafty house
Speaker 1: and they live by themselves, Extend a hand, have them
Speaker 1: come over, find an extra bed, get a sleeping bag,
Speaker 1: somebody give up the bed and sleep on the couch,
Speaker 1: just so that they could be in a warm, safe environment.
Speaker 1: Because we're going here later in the week. House fires
Speaker 1: that started with space heaters turning down their oven and
Speaker 1: a family died of carbon monoxide poisoning. They went in
Speaker 1: their garage and started their car. Guaranteed, it's going to
Speaker 1: be said Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, you're going to hear these stories.
Speaker 1: A lot of this could have been prevented now. The
Speaker 1: other main point is for those that are I'd like
Speaker 1: to say over fifty, not to pick on anybody over
Speaker 1: fifty or those that have chronic disease. The cold does
Speaker 1: funny things to your body, especially if you have heart
Speaker 1: disease or if you have lung disease. So, if you
Speaker 1: have heart disease, you have hypertension, you have high cholesterol,
Speaker 1: maybe you've had a heart attack, you have some stens in,
Speaker 1: you've had open heart bypass surgery, you have congestive heart failure.
Speaker 1: Many times the cold is not your friend. It puts
Speaker 1: a tremendous stress on you if you get cold sitting
Speaker 1: in a cold house, sitting outside, or trap outside. And
Speaker 1: so it is not uncommon that when somebody with underlying
Speaker 1: heart disease goes outside and oh, now they decide to
Speaker 1: clear some snow up their driveway, off their front stoop
Speaker 1: their car, that they start getting chest pain. It's called
Speaker 1: Angina or New York, we would say in China. But
Speaker 1: angina has a sign almost like that early warning that
Speaker 1: you may be having a heart attack. You're not getting
Speaker 1: enough blood to the heart muscle. And so you have
Speaker 1: to look at things and say, look, I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit older, i have high blood pressure, I've had heart failure,
Speaker 1: I've had a heart attack, I'm on three heart medicines.
Speaker 1: I better stay warm, So if you do have to
Speaker 1: travel out, legitimately bundle up, keep your chest warm, keep
Speaker 1: your legs warm, your body, your core, maybe put a
Speaker 1: man over your face so that the cold air is
Speaker 1: not going directly into your lungs. And if you have
Speaker 1: underlying lung disease COPD, chronic bronchitis, the cold air or asthma.
Speaker 1: A lot of people get sick with asthma this time
Speaker 1: of the year. The cold air can trigger an asthmatic attack,
Speaker 1: an exacerbation of COPD, and a lot of you may
Speaker 1: know this, but gosh, you've been living in the South
Speaker 1: for many, many years and you're not really accustomed that
Speaker 1: getting a cold blast of air. So you have to
Speaker 1: be very careful in those regards. And for Pete's sake,
Speaker 1: find some kid in the neighborhood to sweep off your car,
Speaker 1: clean your front walkway, have some you know, give the
Speaker 1: kid a few bucks, have them go shopping for you,
Speaker 1: or you know, we have all these delivery services now
Speaker 1: if you need certain essential things delivered to your house.
Speaker 1: But the main thing also is, let's say after Tuesday
Speaker 1: or part of Tuesday into Wednesday, the ice. If you
Speaker 1: do not have to drive anywhere. Stay home. I've been
Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas thirty plus years now, love the people,
Speaker 1: this is my home. But cold weather people here don't
Speaker 1: know how to drive. Don't know how to drive when
Speaker 1: the weather is in clement, especially snow or ice or sleep.
Speaker 1: The other thing is there's going to be slips on
Speaker 1: icy surfaces. And if you're sixty five, you're seventy seventy
Speaker 1: five and you break a hip, break an arm, break
Speaker 1: a shoulder, it's going to be a tough recovery for you.
Speaker 1: So again you have to look at this and say,
Speaker 1: it looks icy out there. I am not going out
Speaker 1: by myself. Make sure if you have to go out,
Speaker 1: you have a strong bodied person helping you to the car,
Speaker 1: helping you into the store, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: And I cannot say enough of being careful with the
Speaker 1: space heaters, carbon monoxide toxicity and poisoning that's going to
Speaker 1: take place, and the fires. You know a lot of
Speaker 1: emphasis is on your pipes. Yes we don't want the
Speaker 1: pipes to bust, and your flowers and your pets, but
Speaker 1: you really have to be very, very cautious with how
Speaker 1: you are going to take care of yourself and it
Speaker 1: you know, it really is important, and for so many
Speaker 1: we operate on sort of this brinksmanship. We wait for
Speaker 1: the very end. Do you have enough get in your car?
Speaker 1: That is one thing that my wife will always tell me.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a storm, it's gonna be cold, it's
Speaker 1: gonna rain. Do you have enough gas in your car? Yes, ma'am, Yes, honey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get gas. But be prepared. And again
Speaker 1: part of the neighborhood community check in. All of us
Speaker 1: have at least one or two or three people that
Speaker 1: you probably need to check in on. And if you
Speaker 1: know that they're elderly with a bunch of medical problems,
Speaker 1: see how they're doing. Maybe you have to help them
Speaker 1: get some refills on their prescriptions, maybe communicate with their physician.
Speaker 1: But the other thing for yourself. Much of what we
Speaker 1: do here we try to empower you to understand the
Speaker 1: warning signs of things that may be getting worse, the
Speaker 1: warning signs of a heart attack, chest pain, shortness of breath,
Speaker 1: pain down your left arm, some vague indigestion. If you're
Speaker 1: sitting there tonight Sunday evening, seven twenty seven pm and
Speaker 1: you're not feeling right, take action now rather than waiting
Speaker 1: till tomorrow or the next day. It really is very
Speaker 1: important there. All right, Coming up, I want to chat
Speaker 1: a little bit about alcohol use disorder and dry January.
Speaker 1: Are you all familiar with that. I'm not against it,
Speaker 1: but I just think we have to think about what
Speaker 1: we're doing not drinking alcohol in January, and is that
Speaker 1: something we need to do? All right, I'm doctor Joe Glotti.
Speaker 1: Stay tuned. News is coming up in a minute and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back. Welcome back, everybody, doctor Joe Galotti.
Speaker 1: We're here every Sunday evening between seven and a pm
Speaker 1: with a single mission, raising your health EyeQ, making you
Speaker 1: better consumers of healthcare, staying out of the er, staying
Speaker 1: out of the doctor's office, of course unless it's for
Speaker 1: a schedule check up. And I always like to say
Speaker 1: that roughly eighty percent of all the chronic disease that
Speaker 1: we see, the high blood pressure, the diabetes, the cancer,
Speaker 1: the heart disease, delivered disease is related to lifestyle decisions
Speaker 1: we make. Now. This is not to look down and
Speaker 1: say bad you, You've made yourself sick, get out of
Speaker 1: the office. That's not the point we're here to help.
Speaker 1: But in all the years that I've been practicing medicine,
Speaker 1: liver disease, very sick patients, very complicated patients, so many
Speaker 1: of them that by the time they come to visit
Speaker 1: me and my team, they have had things going on
Speaker 1: for years to decades and they just didn't realize that
Speaker 1: a particular behavior which everybody else is doing, but for them,
Speaker 1: was somehow harming their heart, their liver, their lungs, their kidneys,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. So the idea is to
Speaker 1: have that eighty percent down to fifteen percent twenty let's
Speaker 1: try to take a big bite out of that. But
Speaker 1: it's all about awareness, and that's what this program is about.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm all about, is what my team
Speaker 1: is about. We want to empower you to understand we're
Speaker 1: not selling anything. We're not trying to get you to
Speaker 1: take snake oil. We're just trying to enlighten you and
Speaker 1: your family. And I've always been saying for the twenty
Speaker 1: two years I've been on the radio here, I want
Speaker 1: to give you actionable information. You could hear something tonight
Speaker 1: and make a change immediately. So with that said, I'll
Speaker 1: get into dry January just in a few minutes. But
Speaker 1: one one thing that came out right after New Year's
Speaker 1: was the Surgeon General. US Surgeon General came out with
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty Alcohol and Cancer Risk Report, and this
Speaker 1: got a fair amount of play in the press. And
Speaker 1: the basic synopsis is that there is a relationship between
Speaker 1: consuming alcohol and getting cancer. And the data would indicate that,
Speaker 1: well a few things. Alcohol use is a leading preventable
Speaker 1: cause of cancer in the US. A preventable cause of
Speaker 1: cancer which means drink less or don't drink and you
Speaker 1: reduce your chance of getting cancer. Now, it's estimated that
Speaker 1: there are about one hundred thousand cases of cancer directly
Speaker 1: related to alcohol, with about twenty thousand cancer deaths every year.
Speaker 1: So these are numbers that really do get your attention worldwide.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's certainly a big problem. Now. The issue here,
Speaker 1: and this is where I like to say, hey, you
Speaker 1: need to be better consumers. We want you to be
Speaker 1: better consumers. The data indicates that less than half of
Speaker 1: Americans are aware that alcohol consumption increases cancer risk. So
Speaker 1: when you look at radiation X rays, ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the population is where that radiation can give you cancer.
Speaker 1: Tobacco eighty nine percent. Asbestos. You know, you watch TV,
Speaker 1: listen to radio. There's all these class action lawsuits. Did
Speaker 1: you work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in nineteen fifty three,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I did. You might be at risk for
Speaker 1: lung cancer. Okay, so we get that kind of awareness.
Speaker 1: Asbestos is bad, You're going to get cancer. Obesity. Fifty
Speaker 1: three percent of the population knows that obesity is related
Speaker 1: to cancer, which is a good thing. But only forty
Speaker 1: five percent of the population eighteen and older are aware
Speaker 1: of the connection between alcohol consumption and the increased risk
Speaker 1: of cancer. And so that's something we need to work on. Now.
Speaker 1: The other issue is, and again this is where you
Speaker 1: need to all be aware consuming alcohol increases the risk
Speaker 1: of developing at least seven different types of cancer. Well,
Speaker 1: you're probably sitting there, doctor Glotti. What are the seven cancers? Mouth?
Speaker 1: That would be the oral cavity, throat, your pharynx, back
Speaker 1: of your throat, voice box, larynx, esophagus, breasts in women. And
Speaker 1: there's a little side note to that. Liver cancer. Now
Speaker 1: that's where I come in, just as a side note.
Speaker 1: But then colon and rectum. But two things on the
Speaker 1: liver if you have hepatitis C or you have hepatitis B,
Speaker 1: both of which have very good medical treatments available. If
Speaker 1: you consume alcohol, you have an increased risk of getting
Speaker 1: liver cancer and cirrhosis if you have a fatty liver.
Speaker 1: There's one hundred million people in the United States with
Speaker 1: a fatty liver. Separate topic, but just take it at that,
Speaker 1: Consuming alcohol, even small amounts, increases your risk of getting
Speaker 1: cerrosis and or liver cancer. The other thing about breast
Speaker 1: cancer and women. Now, we always talk about women should
Speaker 1: drink no more than one standard alcohol drink per day
Speaker 1: and no more than two, But even with small amounts
Speaker 1: of alcohol, the risk of breast cancer goes up about
Speaker 1: sixteen percent sixteen percent. So if you're a woman sitting
Speaker 1: there tonight and you say, well, gosh, I don't want
Speaker 1: breast cancer. I don't want my daughter to get breast cancer.
Speaker 1: I don't want my mom to get breast cancer, reducing
Speaker 1: alcohol can cut that risk down. So again, these are
Speaker 1: very important bits of information that I really do think
Speaker 1: that we need to be aware of and share with
Speaker 1: one another. Believe it or not, I did post the
Speaker 1: report on TikTok, but I don't know if TikTok is
Speaker 1: up and running, so I'm going to repost it on
Speaker 1: our Facebook page, even though I think I posted it
Speaker 1: immediately when it was up there. But Facebook is at
Speaker 1: doctor Joe Galotti. But go to doctor Joeglotti dot com
Speaker 1: and you'll see it there. All right, Stay tuned. Final
Speaker 1: segment coming up. I'm doctor Joe Galotti. I hope you're
Speaker 1: all staying warm tonight Tomorrow Wednesday, I'll right back final
Speaker 1: segments for this Meets Your Health First. I'm doctor Joe Galotti.
Speaker 1: I got a text during the program here from a
Speaker 1: friend and listener and they said, Joe, are you sick
Speaker 1: a little head cold? The studio here is a little dry.
Speaker 1: I probably haven't had enough water to drink today, but
Speaker 1: my voice and my nose is a little nasal, So
Speaker 1: I hope I don't sound too too bad here on
Speaker 1: the radio tonight. But I am well. I was out
Speaker 1: in Big Bend National Park for a week hiking with
Speaker 1: a bunch of friends, and it was cold out there,
Speaker 1: beautiful if you've If you've never been to Big Bend
Speaker 1: National Park out in West Texas, you definitely have to
Speaker 1: put it on your bucket. List. Now, I've been to
Speaker 1: essentially or nearly every national park in the United States,
Speaker 1: and this was the first time I've been to Big Bend.
Speaker 1: And it is way way out there. It is quite
Speaker 1: a drive. And these friends of ours have been going
Speaker 1: for years in January and I said, well, what about
Speaker 1: like April or May? And They're like, no way, it's
Speaker 1: too damn hot. It's desert out there. People die out there.
Speaker 1: So I think this is really a fall into early
Speaker 1: spring type of place to visit if you want to
Speaker 1: have a good time with your family. But Big ben
Speaker 1: National Park. I'll try to post some pictures on social
Speaker 1: media in the days to come and give you a
Speaker 1: little bit of a taste of it all. Right, final
Speaker 1: segment here, don't forget go do doctor Joegalotti dot com.
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Speaker 1: I have this disease, I need surgery. It sounds bad,
Speaker 1: and you just have that one local opinion, always, always, always,
Speaker 1: if you want a second opinion, get a second opinion.
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Speaker 1: all right. With regard to alcohol and as a liver
Speaker 1: disease specialist, a lot of my time is spent taking
Speaker 1: care of patients that have alcohol use disorder alcoholism that
Speaker 1: affects the liver to the point that it causes all
Speaker 1: kinds of life threatening complications, cancer, cirrhosis, need for transplant,
Speaker 1: et cetera. It is a big problem. Now. While I
Speaker 1: am not an addiction expert, I deal with addictionologists nearly
Speaker 1: every day. We're talking to people that are in alcohol
Speaker 1: recovery nearly every day, and we look at alcohol use
Speaker 1: disorder alcoholism as no different than any other chronic disease, asthma, bronchitis, psoriasis.
Speaker 1: It's chronic disease. It's not necessarily a disease that you're
Speaker 1: an alcoholic, you're a bad person, and you have no control. No,
Speaker 1: it is a disease of the brain. And there's lots
Speaker 1: of stuff that we've talked about in the past on
Speaker 1: the program here. But it's January and I hear people
Speaker 1: are out, they're at a party, they're over for dinner.
Speaker 1: Would you like a glass of wine? Bob, No, dry January? Well,
Speaker 1: what's that all about? So I'm not here in any
Speaker 1: way to fault people that are following a dry January.
Speaker 1: That's fine. But if you have a glass of red
Speaker 1: wine on Friday when you go out to dinner with
Speaker 1: your family, and it's only Friday night, so that means
Speaker 1: you have three or four glasses in a month, why
Speaker 1: are you limiting alcohol? I'm not quite sure. You have
Speaker 1: a beer on Saturday watching basketball, or a couple of
Speaker 1: beers on Sunday watching football. Why do you want to
Speaker 1: do dry January? Now? Just a question, just a rhetorical question.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, there are plenty of people
Speaker 1: that I know that are what I would consider heavy drinkers,
Speaker 1: heavy consumers of alcohol, almost to the point of binge drinking. Okay,
Speaker 1: and they will do a January, but February one they
Speaker 1: are back to heavy, unhealthy alcohol use. So it's nice
Speaker 1: to see that you can control yourself and stop for
Speaker 1: thirty days and stop alcohol, But why not try to
Speaker 1: make it a lifestyle to cut it down three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five days out of the year. And so
Speaker 1: I don't understand, Like so many things with diets and exercise,
Speaker 1: people go to the extreme. You've never exercised seriously in
Speaker 1: ten years, and you go to a spin class, or
Speaker 1: you sign up for a spin class and you get
Speaker 1: injured the second day. We see it all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you do too. But the definition of alcohol
Speaker 1: use disorder, which I'm trying to tie in here, you know,
Speaker 1: these are people that have some degree of alcohol dependence.
Speaker 1: They drink more than intended, They have a loss of control,
Speaker 1: they have craving or preoccupation with drinking, They have a
Speaker 1: tolerance to drinking, they withdrawal, they drink alone, They have
Speaker 1: problems at work, trouble relationships, financial issues, careless about personal appearance, blackouts,
Speaker 1: drunk driving. This would be the sign of alcohol use disorder.
Speaker 1: Now with binge drinking, typically for a woman it is
Speaker 1: more than four drinks at one time, usually within two hours.
Speaker 1: For men five and so binge drinking alcohol use disorder.
Speaker 1: It's sort of a spectrum. But I would say for
Speaker 1: those that are doing a dried January, no alcohol because
Speaker 1: you think you have an alcohol problem, I would say,
Speaker 1: number one, get help. Talk to your doctor, Talk to
Speaker 1: somebody on your doctor's team. There are online resources, of course,
Speaker 1: we've had here in Texas, the organization Positive Recovery, they
Speaker 1: could do an online assessment. There are other organizations online
Speaker 1: that you can call in and get some assessment. So, yes,
Speaker 1: it is, you know, very good to see that people
Speaker 1: can potentially realize that, hey, I think I have a problem.
Speaker 1: I'm going to stay dry on January. That is great,
Speaker 1: kudoos to all of you. But the follow up is,
Speaker 1: you know what it is a problem. Can I take
Speaker 1: this into February into March? Or if you were drinking
Speaker 1: three or four glasses of wine per day, can I
Speaker 1: get that down to two? Can then I get it
Speaker 1: down to one? Can I get it down to one
Speaker 1: glass of wine a couple of days a week? But
Speaker 1: there is an addiction issue. There's a brain issue, not
Speaker 1: a personality problem, not a bad person, but you do
Speaker 1: you may need to get help. That would be the
Speaker 1: main thing. And I'll post that Surgeon General report on
Speaker 1: the effects of alcohol and cancer on our Facebook page,
Speaker 1: Doctor Joe Glotti and we will go from there. So
Speaker 1: sum it up. It's going to be cold, it's going
Speaker 1: to snow, it's going to be icy. Watch out for
Speaker 1: one another. If you don't have to drive, stay away,
Speaker 1: and tomorrow, I'd say you have half the day to
Speaker 1: get your medical issues in line, be it your prescriptions,
Speaker 1: your meds, if you're having any sort of medical problem
Speaker 1: that you're not sure of it. You know that your
Speaker 1: mom is not feeling well, don't wait, call your doctor
Speaker 1: and get an appointment tomorrow. Maybe you might be able
Speaker 1: to do it rather than trying to get help in
Speaker 1: the middle of a storm and go to the er
Speaker 1: and all hell breaks through then all right, So look, everybody,
Speaker 1: stay safe. We'll see you next Sunday night. Don't forget
Speaker 1: go to doctor Joeglotti dot com and we'll see you
Speaker 1: next Sunday night.
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