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The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
July 19, 2013
Tips On Staying Safe In Heat
OCEAN CITY – On a swelter- heat exhaustion include weaking summer day, a 72-year-old ness, dizziness, nausea, vomitman with a 140 pulse, a 102.6 ing, headaches, muscle aches, temperature and a history of heart and normal or slightly increased body temperature. Go to the disease presented. To conserve energy, the man's emergency room if symptoms perfamily had not been running the sist. Heatstroke is a life-threatening air conditioner-even though the daytime heat index had been 100 illness in which the body temperature usually exceeds 104 degrees for the last few days. degrees. The body loses Sadly, this scenario is its ability to regulate temcommon and can be life perature causing confuthreatening. According to sion or irritability, fainting the National Center for and heavy breathing. Health Statistics, nearly If someone is suffering 400 people die each year from heatstroke, immediin the United States from ately call for emergency exposure to high temperamedical treatment. Before tures. And officials say most of these deaths are DR. VICTOR GONG paramedics arrive, cover the person with cool, preventable. As summer approaches and wet sheets, blow a fan across the temperatures rise, it's important to sheets and place ice packs in the know how to keep cool and to avoid person's groin area, neck and the three most common heat-relat- armpits. Other tips to stay cool include ed illnesses: heat cramps, heat dress in light-colored, loose clothexhaustion and heatstroke. Heat cramps occur when mus- ing; avoid direct sunlight; avoid cles contract-usually after perspir- strenuous activity; take frequent ing heavily. Surprisingly, drinking breaks in a cool area; and drink too much water actually can in- plenty of fluids. For further information, view duce cramps because the water upsets the balance between salt www.75thstmedical.com. and water in the body. If you get – Victor Gong cramps, remove heavy clothing, Special To The Dispatch get into a cool area and drink (The writer is the medical director something with salt, such as of the 75th Street Medical and Gatorade. Doctors Weight Control and WellHeat exhaustion: Symptoms of ness Center in Ocean City.)
Obituaries
Judith Dodds Ferdinand
OCEAN PINES – Judith Dodds Ferdinand, “Judy,” age 71, died Friday July 12, 2013 at Coastal Hospice at the Lake in Salisbury. Born in Patterson, N.J., she was the daughter of the late Albert A. Dodds and Blanche Eleanor Miele Dodds. She is survived by her husband, A. Jon Ferdinand; son, David G. Ferdinand and his wife Wanda (Katie) Ferdinand of Basking Ridge, N.J., and daughter Robyn Ferdinand of Frankford, De. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Wendy Ann Ferdinand in 2001. There are four grandchildren, Carson, Tyler, Harper and Ryan Ferdinand. Also surviving are her brothers, Brian Dodds and his wife Helen of Virginia and Jeff Dodds and his wife Cathy of Pennsylvania and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. Ferdinand had been a branch manager for Leggs Pantyhose and had worked in advertising sales with the W.T.Z.A. Television station in Kingston, N.Y. She was a member at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Ocean Pines, the E.W.G.A., the Monroe N.Y. Ambulance Corps, and was a horseback riding and golf enthusiast. A mass of Christian burial was held on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at St. John Neumann Catholic Church. Rev. Leonard J. Downes was the officiant. Memorial donations may be made to the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society of Maryland, 100 Painters Mill Road, Suite 800, Owings Mills, Md., 21117. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.burbagefuneralhome.com.
Yvonne J. Moore
LEWES –Yvonne J. Moore, 62, of Lewes, Del., went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. Yvonne was an office manager with Coast Survey in Nassau. She was a founding member of Holy Spirit Anglican Mission in Lewes, an outgrowth of Trinity Cathedral in Berlin, which is part of the Anglican Church of North America. Yvonne was both an instructor and provider with the healing prayer ministry at both churches. She enjoyed singing and playing gospel music on the guitar in music ministries such as Tres Arroyos. She was community minded and volunteered throughout the area with Habitat for Humanity and other local projects. Yvonne is survived by her husband of 18 1/2 years, Stuart D. Moore; her mother, Julienne Lambaer, of Rhode Island; three children, Duncan F. Culton and wife Sarah E., and Heather L. Cobb and husband Ben, all of North SEE NEXT PAGE
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