May 20, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Comsuelo Walss-Bass about schizophrenia.
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Why welcome aboard. Thank you all for listening. I starting
to appreciate it. Thanks for coming back to fifty plus
or if this is your maiden voyage, well welcome to
the show that, I guess examines what our crew can
do to live longer, have your healthier lives, so we
can just keep going and keep doing all the things
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we've dreamed about, things we dreamed about as kids, doing
as young adults, and then as young adults doing as
older and older and hopefully still older adults. But we
just haven't until now maybe had the time or resources
to do all that stuff. So hopefully that makes a
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little bit of sense. I'm not sure if it does
or just not really irrelevant. Lots of us set goals
that have dreams about how we'll spend the third and
fourth quarters of our lives. The trouble, I think, is
that we have no clue how long those quarters are
going to last, or even if they do last, whether
or not we'll be able to suit up and get
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on the field and play like we want to play.
Make a promise to yourself. I've kind of done it.
I'll confess I'm not the best at doing everything I'm
supposed to be doing or want to be doing lately,
but I have kind of made a promise to myself
to get a little more fit, to eat better. And
that's that's the one I'm doing best with, I think,
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although yesterday, oh my god, I overate at a restaurant.
I was on the way home. Monday's my day off,
and I was on my way home from golf, and
I decided, you know, I'm gonna grab something different to eat.
And I won't tell you where I went, but it's
a fairly popular chain restaurant. And I went in and
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I hadn't been in there probably in five years, maybe more.
And I sat down and I looked at the menu.
I was on my way home. I just and I
called my wife and asked her she wanted or A
texted her and asked her she wanted anything, because I
really needed to eat at that point. I hadn't eaten
much all day, and I went in there hungry, and
I ordered too much, and I sat there and I,
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to my credit, I didn't eat at all. I don't
think I could have actually one or two more bites
and I probably would have overflowed, but I didn't. I
made it out of there, but I paid a price
for that later in the evening, I really did. But god,
it was good. I don't want to tell you where
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I was. It doesn't matter. I don't want to ruin
your appetite for something that's absolutely delicious. But yeah, it
just it came back to bite me. It did, unfortunately,
and it wasn't anything terrible, but it certainly was not
comfortable either. Anyway, do what you can, stay the best
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you can maintain your health, the best you can eat right, exercise,
do things that make you happy and make you healthy,
and a lot of the rest of that stuff is
going to take care of itself. And I know there
are boy, I know a lot of people in our
age group who have things that just don't want to
go away, things that they've been told are going to
be that way for a long long time. And you know,
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I'm not mister sunshine here, but just make the best
of it. I've got arthritis now in my a finger
in my left hand that's really bothering me, and I
just thank god I got nine good fingers that still
work fully. Well, this one has been so it has
been dislocated so many times it just doesn't really function anymore.
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And then there's one on my right hand that's even worse,
but it doesn't bother me yet. So I've got that
going for me too. By the way, while I'm thinking
about it, well we don't have a clock yet. Well
let me see what I got. Oh, I got five minutes. Huh,
four minutes, four minutes, four minutes, four minutes starting now.
So while I'm thinking about it, there's an event for
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seniors tomorrow you might want to make if you have time.
It's down on the southwest side, well, a little bit
beyond the southwest side of Houston. It is called Senior
Health Safety and Awareness Day, and it's scheduled for nine
to one tomorrow out in Building C at the Fort
Ben County Fairgrounds fair Grounds. I hope to run out
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there early and maybe be about first in line at
nine o'clock and then still get back into the office
in time to do my show. I think I can
do that too, And if I find something interesting out there,
which I know I will, I'll share it with you
on tomorrow's episode. If you see me out there, by
all means, please do say hello. We don't have any
official KPRC shirts or anything, but so I'll be I'll
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be unidentifiable other than that unless you know what I
look like. And so if you do, or you overhear
my name or recognize my voice by chance, that happens
every now and then, it's pretty cool. I think it's
very flattering when somebody says, hey, are you Dougpike. Yes,
I recognized your voice. That's happened in the grocery store
will like maybe maybe half a dozen times, and that's
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not bad. I would say so one more before I
get going on broader news. An old friend of mine,
guy named Doug Earl, producing the fourth Annual Patriotic Concert
this Sunday at Sugarland Town Square the good stuff's going
to start around seven pm, and he encourages he said
in his email to me, anybody who plans to attend
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to b YOLC you know what that stands for, will
b yo else? Yeah, bring your own You're going to
kind of an outdoorsy thing in a wide alongeir, Yes, sir,
bring your own lawn chair. I'm so glad he's doing
this as a means of honoring the very many thousands
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of men and women who gave their lives so that
we can sit quietly in parks and town squares and
listen to music on what I hope is going to
be a pleasant evening tomorrow. Absolutely free, no charge at all.
And he said that if you want to bring some
canned goods, the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry would
be much grateful, much much grateful. Let's do this, will
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Let's take a walk into this break a little bit early.
I believe I might be editor. Oh wow, then I'm
gonna tell you about walking out this morning. It was
holy cow, man. There was a little bit of mist
in the air, and not quite sure whether it was
high humidity or actual presip, but it was very damp
and muggy and warm, and so when I got here
this morning, I checked the forecast just out of curiosity,
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only a twenty percent chance of real rain in the
high this afternoon will supposed to be ninety six ninety
six degrees with all that humidity. I'm hoping it comes
down a little bit. And it actually says it's going
to later in the week the highs will only be
in the low nineties, and I hope they were wrong
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for today. So anyway, brace yourself. If you got to
go outside and you really don't want to go, and
if you don't have to, just don't. And if you
don't like super warm weather, man, don't change your plans.
Don't change your plants. Just go out there, maybe put
yourself out there for a little while. Get you in
shape for what's coming. We all know what's coming from
June through October. So this will just give you an
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opportunity to get acclimated to the blast furnace we live
in here. We'll take a little break on the way out.
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Speaker 1 (09:31):
Once life without a Net, I suggest you go to bed,
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Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening,
certainly do appreciate it. Where the second segment of the
show starts now, and we'll talk for the next several
minutes about schizophrenia, one of so many psychiatric disorders that,
without treatment, can disrupt and potentially destroy lives. And to
help and shed a little more positive light on it,
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perhaps I'll enlist doctor Consuelo Walts, Beth, PhD and Professor
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UT Health MC Government
Medical School.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Welcome back, Thank you, thank you for inviting me back.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh, it's a great pleasure. Yeah, I know I've got
I'm in good hands with this one because I know
nothing about this. What's the simplest definition you can offer
of this very complex disorder.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yes, Well, schizophrenia is a severe mental illness in which
patients have basically a distorted perception of reality. So they
can hear things and sometimes see things that are not
really there, so they have hallucinations, and they also have
delusions in terms of thinking that things are happening whether
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they're not really happening, and they have unfortunately impaired cognition
sometimes to tea making decisions sometimes just really basic decisions.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Essentially, it kind of the brain's gone rogue basically, right.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yes, Yes, it's a really devastating disease early.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
How cold is it?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
About one person of one hundred will have schizophrenia, so
it's not rare, it's relatively common. But it does run
in families, so if you have a family history of
someone with schizophrenia, there's a higher risk of getting it
than if you're in the general population with no history.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And you were talking about the average age, maybe when
when does it start?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, it's a lifelong disease, so it can start the
symptoms start manifesting usually in the late teens early twenties,
but now we understand that this is a neurodevelopmental disorder
that in fact can start much earlier than that. Well,
the symptoms can sometimes remain hidden until the teenage years,
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which is when there there's a lot of stress going
on in the brain, a lot of things changes are
happening in the brain, and those are when the symptoms
manifest themselves. But it is an illness that could start
early in life. Basically, it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Like putting a pot of water on the stove and
you don't it just sits there and gets hotter and
hotter until ultimately it boils. But you don't see the
boiling until it's happening.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Wow, that's actually a very good analogy. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Feel free to use that next time you need. It
doesn't go up with age, No.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Actually it does not. So basically, you're born, you are
born with a set of genes you know, jeans, and
you're inherited from your parents. And like I said, this
illness runs in families. But then there's an environmental component,
so exposures to stressful life events, things of that nature
that can trigger the disorder. So just the gens by
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themselves is not enough. You have to have a trigger
stressor and that occurs early in life. But your risk
does not increase with age. No, this is something that
if you don't have it, I would say, by if
there's no symptoms by the age of forty year five.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well that's good to know at least. Key about let's
talk about treatment then, what for people who do develop this,
what can we do for them?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, there is it's a sad illness, you know, and
it takes a lot of business for the psychiatrists to
make sure what kind of medications they have, and this
can take some time, but there is possibility of having
a life, a good life once you have an identify
the set of medications that are going to help. There's
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a lot of caregiving. Families need to be really involved
with that, and sometimes that's hard because as a family
member it's difficult to deal with these disorders. But once
you have the patient that is stable and there's a
routine that you create for these patients, really minimizing stress
is one of the main basic things. It's the patient
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has a life where they have a routine and they
know what to expect about things, and they can have
a pretty good life. So there is hope. It's that illness,
but there can be a good treatments that are out there.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It helps a sense a little hesitation in you to
you know devastating it is.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And then the sad thing is that when the symptoms
first start, it's hard for the family members to deal
with it and to get help. It's a really hard thing.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So what is what is step one? What is step one?
If someone recognizes these symptoms in a family member, where
do they turn first?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, So step one is exactly that to be aware
of these symptoms. You know, sometimes we say, oh, it's
a teenager, that's just the way they are, right. But
if this, for example, if the person starts to isolate
themselves a lot all of a sudden, or the grades
start going down, or they spend a lot of times
by themselves, that that's not something they were normally doing.
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Those are symptoms that we need to watch out for
and then seek help. This is really important not to
be afraid to go to psychologists or to psychiatrists like
we would for any other doctor. You know, and when
you start having a headache or you have a problem,
you got a doctor, right. Well, I think that's the
same thing we need to do early on. In the
earlier that's done, the better chances for a good life
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down the line.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So if we get somebody on kind of a treatment regimen,
do the symptoms in the manifestations and all of the
issues that go along with this, do they kind of
come and go? Do they ebb and flow or is
it just constant?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
They know they do eb and flow in fact, And
it has to do with daily route. Like I say,
if a patient has a good routine, a good care,
there can be okay, but then something happens that's you know, difficult,
different from their normal routine. That can sometimes cause stress
and so then the symptoms reappear, but the treatments can
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help minimize that and then they can just get back
to their normal routine again. So they do eb and
flow and it's not something that goes away. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, that's it, because it would be. I think if
you were caring for somebody who has schizophrenia and they
had three or four straight really good days, you think, oh, wow,
we've turned a corner.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
But that's no, that's not the case.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, the more we know, the better equipped we will
be to deal with something like this. If we ever
have to talk about the challenges for caregivers. This isn't easy,
is it.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No, No, I have to and I could share with you.
I care for my sister who has cazophrenia, so that
is why I can speak to that as well. It's
very hard, it takes a lot of patience, and we
need support ourselves. As a caregiver. It's important that you
have a network of people you can rely on and
to go and if sometimes you just feel totally stressed out,
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that there's somebody else that can maybe take over for
you for a few days. So it's important to take
care of our own mental health when we're dealing with
our loved ones.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's so important, no matter what age, no matter what
the condition. If you're caring for somebody full time, almost
all the time, all the time, you need a break.
You need a break, don't you. Yeah? In the movie.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In the movies, people with schizophrenia sometimes portrayed as having
short triggers and then turning violent. Is that anywhere near accurate?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Actually, no, I'm really glad you brought that up. Most
patients know they are. Actually they are the ones that
are terrified. They are so afraid they will not even
leave their room or leave their houses because they are
really afraid of being around other people and afraid of
themselves being attacked. So that portrayal it does happen. I
will not say that, you know, when there is a
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trigger that sometimes they can get I wouldn't stay violent,
but agitated. And that can sometimes be portrayed as scary,
you know, because it's a it's a reaction that you're
not that all of a sudden there sometimes happens just
out of the blue. And so I think those portrayals
are what is what we see on movies, but that
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is not the general case. They tend to be gentle
people that are really mostly afraid of others.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Doctor Cusuela Walt's best. Thank you so very much for
sharing this with you. And I know that it's not
going to cure it, but it's gonna ease some people's minds,
perhaps if they're dealing with this at home.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Thank you, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
All right, all right, we got to take a little
break all the way out. I'm going to tell you
about Berry Hill Baja Grill. This is one of my
favorite places. So I'm fifty nine down there in sugar
Land at Sugar Creek Boulevard. Very easy to find, can't
miss it, big old, big old place right there. You
could throw a rock to the freeway or to the
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restaurant from either side. Been around there thirty something years.
Has some of the best fish tacos on the planet.
I originally wrote in Southeast Texas, you know, probably the
whole state. And perhaps because I haven't eaten a whole
lot of fish tacos anywhere else and don't really have
any desire to, I would say maybe in the whole country.
Who knows. You'll have to try them for yourself to
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see what I'm talking about. The people. When I'm my
wife and I found Burry Hill right at thirty years ago,
I believe it's been there that long. If it hasn't,
I'm surprised because I've always known it to be there,
and I've lived in sugar Land for thirty two years. Now.
This is your chance to try. If you've never been there,
it's your chance to try. A very casual, family friendly
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restaurant that's, by the way, had the same two primary
chefs in the kitchen for more than a decade, just
churning out delicious varieties of Mexican food favorites tex mex
food favorites. And if you're brand new, go in there.
If you're by yourself, just go in there and let
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the servers know it, let anybody else know it, and
probably before you leave. I've seen this happen, somebody's gonna say, hey,
come join us, who are you, why you in here?
What do you want to know? And they'll they'll welcome
you in, and they're all good people. There's families over kind
of to the left. As you walk in at tables
and boosts, and there's the sports bar side on the right,
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and then there's outdoor dining as well. That's gonna be
pretty comfortable, probably for at least another month or two.
Berryhillsugarland dot com they also do catering, by the way,
all over town. We've had them come down here a
couple of times now and serve us and delicious Berryhillsugarland
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dot com.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank
you all for listening. I truly do enjoy this and
I greatly appreciate you giving me some of your lunchtime.
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I hope it's not interrupting your lunch, and I'll do
my level best to never say anything that will hurt
your appetite in the very least.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Will you want some good news or you want to
do a little fun stuff, Let's do a little fun stuff.
By the way, Today Will is National Streaming Day, which
that's kind of a contemporary thing. Huh, Yeah, hadn't been
around a long time. Actually talking about streaming like a
Netflix or are they talking about streaming like a twitch?
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I have no idea. I have no idea will what
they're talking about. But what my version would include is
a fly rod and some big rainbow trial. That's my
idea of streaming. I don't. I would much rather be
on any body of water, even small ones. And I
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fished some very small water and actually caught some pretty
decent fish out of it. I would rather be there
than sitting in front of any screen and as a sidebar.
In professional bass fishing now and creeping into the saltwater fishing,
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the use of forward facing sonar. Have you ever heard
of that? So here's the deal. They have this new
electronic ability now for not only for the rebound of
a signal off of something in front of the boat
or below the boat. Used to be you could just
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see straight down. Now you can send that signal out
in front of you and sit there. And a lot
of these big fancy bass boats have monitors as big
as these on the front, and.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It is.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Detailed enough that you can tell a catfish from a bass,
You can tell crappie from big white bass, or whatever.
You can tell different species of fish. That's how detailed
it is, so what a lot of people are doing,
and it's being in you. And I won't dwell on
this because I don't know how much of this audience
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likes to fish. But what you can do is target
bigger fish with this stuff. It makes sense everybody wants
to catch bigger fish. But now there is a trend,
and there was a there was a professional bass fisherman
after so many people had come before him and learned
to fish the old fashioned way, kind of trial and air,
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learning from your peers, learning from people who had more
experience than you. Now they just go out on the
lake and ride around and just look for a big
old fish on the screen and then drop a lure
down there and you could watch the lure go down.
You can watch the fish eat the lure and then
just reel it did and traditionalists old school, and I've
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done it both ways. Okay, I've used forward facing sonar
before and it's it's cute and all, but it sure
does take away some of the mystique and some of
the romance of traditional fishing. So there was one professional
bass fisherman, when asked what he'd done that day or
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why he didn't catch any bass that day, and his
answer was, you can't catch them if you can't see them,
and that of course not fishing will Yeah. I thought
that was kind of the point. That's watching TV. That's
just And then a good friend of mine actually had
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a son, an adult son in one of his buddies
who went fishing, I think on Lake Conroe. It's been
about a year ago or so, but they they also
had that device in their boat, and when asked later
in the day whether they had caught or how much
time they'd spent fishing, whatever, the sun answered. We never
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made a cast. We never even made a cast because
we didn't see a good fish. They didn't even try,
not even for the little ones. Nothing for nothing. And
if you don't just because you don't see one in
front of the boat or directly under the boat in
deeper water, doesn't mean you can't cast off to the
left or the right. I mean, it's just I don't know.
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I'm old school. I like fishing. I love fishing. I
don't have to see them to catch them. I just
have to make another cast. If I don't get one
on this cast, I'll get one on the next cast.
That's enough fishing. Uh, watch your step, pardon the interruption
or try again part in the interruption. Microsoft has a
new report out that claims office employees are interrupted by meetings, emails,
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and chats. How often will is it in a percentage? No,
it's in time? Oh, in time? I would say, Well,
meetings can kind of vary that, so I would say
maybe an hour and a half of the day. No,
I didn't ask you that. Let me rephrase the question.
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Let me dumb it down, will I'm just kidding. So here,
here's what I need to know. How often do they
get interrupted by something? What interval of time passes while
they're they're working, working, working, then an interruption? Oh, and
they're working working. What you got it now?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, okay, So I'll say everyquently, I'll say every twelve minutes,
every two minutes, two minutes, every two minutes. There's some interruption.
For me, it's emails. I get a lot a lot
of emails, and some text messages and just other distractions.
People walk by the desk. Now I do have of
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a little secluded desk. I'm at the kind I'm against
the window, and there are two people insulating me from
from idle chatter. But it's still when I think of
it like that, I realize how often we're distracted and
how difficult it is to really truly focus, which is
kind of it goes along with the actual inability of
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anybody to focus on two things at once one minute.
That it one minute from the Eiffel Tower desk, I'll
do that in one minute. Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo
has requested two thousand, no excuse me, twenty three thousand
to three hundred dollars from the county's purse so that
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she and three county employees can promote the county's economic
growth in Paris. They're gonna take a little time over
in Paris to promote Hughston. She tried to get that
money this past week, but didn't get the required votes.
And that's possibly said the story because she didn't tell
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the public where she and her crew were going to
go for twenty three thousand dollars, And I guess I
don't know. Well, the three hundred wouldn't even cover tips.
Probably county budget, by the way, I said to be
running at a one hundred and twenty nine million dollar deficit,
so hey, what's another twenty four grand uh, Lena wants
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to see the she wants to see the Eiffel Tower.
I guess a late health is the vascular clinic at
which you can be seen and treated for such things
such annoying bothersome things as in large non cancerous prostates,
as fibroids and women, as head pain and anybody that's
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got it, as ugly veins and anybody who has them,
and other things. I interviewed doctor Doe recently about all
the things that are listed on his website that they
do at a late health, and it was fascinating, really,
some of the things that can be done with these tiny,
tiny tubes that some of which are about the size
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of a human hair, that can be guided in through
your blood system to fix a problem somehow. It's fascinating. Really.
Go to the website, look around. You'll see all the
things they can do. You won't learn how to do them,
but you'll certainly see what they can do over there
for you to make you feel better, look better, and
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well those kind of things. Those two things go hand
in hand really, and late health does a great deal
of work toward that end for anybody and everybody who
can get over there. Most of what they do is
covered by Medicare and Medicaid. All of what they do
happens right there in their offices, so that you don't
have to worry about going to the hospital and dragging
home something you didn't go in there with. And they
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also do regenerative regenerative medicine, by the way, which is
so helpful with extreme chronic pain. A late health alate
a latehealth dot com is a website. Give them a call,
set up a consultation, and see what they can do
to make you feel better. Seven one, three, five, eight, eight,
thirty eight eighty eight seven to one, three, five, eight, eight,
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thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Hi, Welcome back to fifty plus, fourth and final segment
of Stars Now. I was just reading a story about
allen out in Oakland, California. Small business owners, probably in
the downtown area, are dealing with graffiti being painted on
the walls of their little tiny businesses and the city
is finding them for having that graffiti on the walls.
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They go out. There was one shop owner. She said,
they go out and paint over it and clean it
up as fast as they can at their own expense,
and then these come back along and spray something else
on the wall, and the next day they get fined
again for having that stuff out there. That is so
(31:11):
that's just such a liberal way of thinking to blame
the victim and not the criminal, and not do anything
about the criminals. I presume they don't do any sort
of enforcement on that, otherwise perhaps the problem would slow down.
But this this one woman says she got fined. She
(31:34):
went to pay what she thought was going to be
a five hundred dollars fine for one recent episode and
gets there and is told it's going to be three
thousand dollars because of late fees. That's messed up. That
is just brutally messed up. Speaking of from the Hold
(31:54):
the Onion's Desk, if you haven't heard yet or haven't
read yet, there is a man who is suing a
fast food chain. I'm not going to mention where. I'm
not going to mention what fast food chain. But apparently,
according to the suit, they served him a burger with
onions when he specifically asked for no onions. Suit claims
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he suffered injuries that required medical attention. Asking for more
than a quarter million dollars. A couple of years ago,
the man filed a similar suit against another fast feud chain,
and I'm not judging either of his claims. Okay, I'm
not in a position to judge them. I haven't read them,
(32:39):
I don't know all the details. But either in my mind,
I would either stop eating fast food burgers or I
would do what I do. At one place where I
buy sandwich is for my wife, on which we specifically
ask for mayo and mushrooms and have ac atto slices
(33:00):
on her sandwich. And sometimes the people on the preparation
line mistake mu for mustard when in their codes it's
actually mushrooms, and so there's mustard on her sandwich, and
sheet doesn't like mustard, so I have to show it
(33:21):
to them and ask them to remake the sandwich. Not
that big a deal, but I don't take home sandwiches
with mustard on them for her because she doesn't like it.
But I'm not going to sue the place either. Yeah,
if he's gotten medical issues, that's one thing, but again,
just open the wrapper before you leave the store and
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look at it, and then if there are onions on there,
make them make you a new one, make them make
you a new one. And I'm sure they would be
happy to do that under the circumstances, and nobody would
have to go to the doctor, and everybody would be okay.
From the Seashells on the beach desk. By way of Breitbart,
comes word that former FBI director James Comy told MSNBC
(34:06):
that his own famous walk walk on the walk on
the beach what was it? A couple of weeks ago,
says he and his wife found these shells arranged on
the beach as eight six four seven and thought it
would be a good idea to post that not so
cryptic message on x which he soon took down by
the way after people with clear heads were offended. And
(34:28):
not quite sure that's exactly how that dawn on the
beach unfolded. Anyway, He said he thought it was a
quote clever way to express a political view, end quote,
and would never associate himself with violence of any kind
for a man who got fired a long time ago
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by President Trump. I don't know if that's how it
all went down, and I hope it is, but I'm
not sure. FBI Deputy Director now Dan Bongino, a lo
with a whole lot of other people said, there is
no way that Komy didn't know exactly what that meant.
Anybody who's worked in the restaurant business, and that includes
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a lot of teenagers, knows what eighty six means and
in that lingo and that I don't know how it
got there. I don't know what happened. But that's a mess.
Let's go back to the easy fun stuff. Will you
want some good news or you want easy fun again?
Let's do some good news. Okay, I'll do this. There's
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a guy in Canada. He's gained a lot of notoriety
actually in his retirement by traveling from town to town
and he goes to a popular park or shopping center
or whatever. He sets up a card table and two chairs.
He's got a little sign and he listens to people.
He's a registered social worker in Nova Scotia, been at
(35:54):
that for a very long time. He's retired from that,
and listening is something he's done throughout his career, helping
seniors had trouble maybe getting answers to medical questions or
whatever kind of questions, or just finding anyone who would
listen to their cares and concerns. And he doesn't charge
a dying for it either. He's just doing that because
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it's a nice thing to do for people. And little sign,
little sign says you are not alone. I will listen,
sit down, relax, no cost listening. Feel like doing that someday?
Will we could go do it? Just set up set
up at like West Timer and Voss. Just put a
little chair out there on the corner. I'm listening. You
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want to do that one afternoon? I mean, we are listening.
People can call in. Well, that's true, they could. They
could and we wouldn't have to go and sit outside.
And well they can always use the talkback button or iHeartRadio.
That's the easiest way. By the way, if you're listening
on anything other than your car radio and looking at
(37:01):
you can look at the app and you can see
there's a call or a talk to us button, talk
to button, something like that, and if you push that
it will give you I think of what fifteen to
twenty seconds. Yeah, to bear your soul. Whatever you want
to say, you say it, I will get word that
has come in there and I will go listen to
it right after the show. I really will a quote
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from him says, I create safe space for them, a
little bit like the stranger on the airplane you're never
going to see again. Only Paul Jenkinson does it willingly.
What a cool guy, What a just darned cool guy.
All right, we got one minute, one minute, try again.
Water Logged or punctuation in peril. Water Logged studies found
(37:47):
that a person's fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every
time when they spend too much time in the pool
or the bathtub. That's so, it's an interesting thing, but
just as quickly as I was interested by it, I
was bored by it. Yeah, who cares? I don't care.
(38:10):
And who's who did we pay to study that? Will
somebody who likes being in the pool? It's hot outside?
Pretty good? Hut? Yeah, that's that's a pretty good bet too.
First mass produced flying car is going to go on
sale early next year. But they are not cheap. Well,
the base model is eight hundred thousand dollars. Wow, And
(38:31):
it's basically just a sports car with retractable wings, not
a hover car, none of that stuff. So you're still
gonna need a runway and a pilot's slicense by a plane.
We'll see tomorrow,
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
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Hey John, how's it going today?
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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Helpful information on your finances, good health, and what to
do for fun. Fifty plus brought to you by the
UT Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier,
happier life, and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Why welcome aboard. Thank you all for listening. I starting
to appreciate it. Thanks for coming back to fifty plus
or if this is your maiden voyage, well welcome to
the show that, I guess examines what our crew can
do to live longer, have your healthier lives, so we
can just keep going and keep doing all the things
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we've dreamed about, things we dreamed about as kids, doing
as young adults, and then as young adults doing as
older and older and hopefully still older adults. But we
just haven't until now maybe had the time or resources
to do all that stuff. So hopefully that makes a
(01:26):
little bit of sense. I'm not sure if it does
or just not really irrelevant. Lots of us set goals
that have dreams about how we'll spend the third and
fourth quarters of our lives. The trouble, I think, is
that we have no clue how long those quarters are
going to last, or even if they do last, whether
or not we'll be able to suit up and get
(01:47):
on the field and play like we want to play.
Make a promise to yourself. I've kind of done it.
I'll confess I'm not the best at doing everything I'm
supposed to be doing or want to be doing lately,
but I have kind of made a promise to myself
to get a little more fit, to eat better. And
that's that's the one I'm doing best with, I think,
(02:10):
although yesterday, oh my god, I overate at a restaurant.
I was on the way home. Monday's my day off,
and I was on my way home from golf, and
I decided, you know, I'm gonna grab something different to eat.
And I won't tell you where I went, but it's
a fairly popular chain restaurant. And I went in and
(02:31):
I hadn't been in there probably in five years, maybe more.
And I sat down and I looked at the menu.
I was on my way home. I just and I
called my wife and asked her she wanted or A
texted her and asked her she wanted anything, because I
really needed to eat at that point. I hadn't eaten
much all day, and I went in there hungry, and
I ordered too much, and I sat there and I,
(02:53):
to my credit, I didn't eat at all. I don't
think I could have actually one or two more bites
and I probably would have overflowed, but I didn't. I
made it out of there, but I paid a price
for that later in the evening, I really did. But god,
it was good. I don't want to tell you where
(03:13):
I was. It doesn't matter. I don't want to ruin
your appetite for something that's absolutely delicious. But yeah, it
just it came back to bite me. It did, unfortunately,
and it wasn't anything terrible, but it certainly was not
comfortable either. Anyway, do what you can, stay the best
(03:35):
you can maintain your health, the best you can eat right, exercise,
do things that make you happy and make you healthy,
and a lot of the rest of that stuff is
going to take care of itself. And I know there
are boy, I know a lot of people in our
age group who have things that just don't want to
go away, things that they've been told are going to
be that way for a long long time. And you know,
(03:55):
I'm not mister sunshine here, but just make the best
of it. I've got arthritis now in my a finger
in my left hand that's really bothering me, and I
just thank god I got nine good fingers that still
work fully. Well, this one has been so it has
been dislocated so many times it just doesn't really function anymore.
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And then there's one on my right hand that's even worse,
but it doesn't bother me yet. So I've got that
going for me too. By the way, while I'm thinking
about it, well we don't have a clock yet. Well
let me see what I got. Oh, I got five minutes. Huh,
four minutes, four minutes, four minutes, four minutes starting now.
So while I'm thinking about it, there's an event for
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seniors tomorrow you might want to make if you have time.
It's down on the southwest side, well, a little bit
beyond the southwest side of Houston. It is called Senior
Health Safety and Awareness Day, and it's scheduled for nine
to one tomorrow out in Building C at the Fort
Ben County Fairgrounds fair Grounds. I hope to run out
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there early and maybe be about first in line at
nine o'clock and then still get back into the office
in time to do my show. I think I can
do that too, And if I find something interesting out there,
which I know I will, I'll share it with you
on tomorrow's episode. If you see me out there, by
all means, please do say hello. We don't have any
official KPRC shirts or anything, but so I'll be I'll
(05:25):
be unidentifiable other than that unless you know what I
look like. And so if you do, or you overhear
my name or recognize my voice by chance, that happens
every now and then, it's pretty cool. I think it's
very flattering when somebody says, hey, are you Dougpike. Yes,
I recognized your voice. That's happened in the grocery store
will like maybe maybe half a dozen times, and that's
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not bad. I would say so one more before I
get going on broader news. An old friend of mine,
guy named Doug Earl, producing the fourth Annual Patriotic Concert
this Sunday at Sugarland Town Square the good stuff's going
to start around seven pm, and he encourages he said
in his email to me, anybody who plans to attend
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to b YOLC you know what that stands for, will
b yo else? Yeah, bring your own You're going to
kind of an outdoorsy thing in a wide alongeir, Yes, sir,
bring your own lawn chair. I'm so glad he's doing
this as a means of honoring the very many thousands
(06:33):
of men and women who gave their lives so that
we can sit quietly in parks and town squares and
listen to music on what I hope is going to
be a pleasant evening tomorrow. Absolutely free, no charge at all.
And he said that if you want to bring some
canned goods, the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry would
be much grateful, much much grateful. Let's do this, will
(06:55):
Let's take a walk into this break a little bit early.
I believe I might be editor. Oh wow, then I'm
gonna tell you about walking out this morning. It was
holy cow, man. There was a little bit of mist
in the air, and not quite sure whether it was
high humidity or actual presip, but it was very damp
and muggy and warm, and so when I got here
this morning, I checked the forecast just out of curiosity,
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only a twenty percent chance of real rain in the
high this afternoon will supposed to be ninety six ninety
six degrees with all that humidity. I'm hoping it comes
down a little bit. And it actually says it's going
to later in the week the highs will only be
in the low nineties, and I hope they were wrong
(07:38):
for today. So anyway, brace yourself. If you got to
go outside and you really don't want to go, and
if you don't have to, just don't. And if you
don't like super warm weather, man, don't change your plans.
Don't change your plants. Just go out there, maybe put
yourself out there for a little while. Get you in
shape for what's coming. We all know what's coming from
June through October. So this will just give you an
(08:01):
opportunity to get acclimated to the blast furnace we live
in here. We'll take a little break on the way out.
UTA Hell's Institute on Aging is a group of medical
providers from every aspect of medicine and therapy and training
all of it who have taken it upon themselves. After
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all the training they went through, all the education they
got to get where they are, they've stepped over that
line and become even better equipped so that they can
apply their knowledge specifically to seniors. They know us, probably
better than we know ourselves in many cases, and are
more than happy to help you by offering you a
(08:46):
treatment plan, a protocol, medica, whatever it is, depending on
what they do in medicine, that they can help you
get better, faster from whatever's bothering you. Basically their Websit
is loaded with resources, none of which cost you a dime,
but it's loaded with resources that can help point you
(09:06):
in the right direction to get over, faster and better
whatever it is you're dealing with. Ut dot edu slash aging.
These providers are all over town able to help you.
Even if you don't want to drive into the med center.
There's going to be somewhere out near you at some
point during the week so that you can get that
help you want and need. Uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Once life without a Net, I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening,
certainly do appreciate it. Where the second segment of the
show starts now, and we'll talk for the next several
minutes about schizophrenia, one of so many psychiatric disorders that,
without treatment, can disrupt and potentially destroy lives. And to
help and shed a little more positive light on it,
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perhaps I'll enlist doctor Consuelo Walts, Beth, PhD and Professor
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UT Health MC Government
Medical School.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Welcome back, Thank you, thank you for inviting me back.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Oh, it's a great pleasure. Yeah, I know I've got
I'm in good hands with this one because I know
nothing about this. What's the simplest definition you can offer
of this very complex disorder.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yes, Well, schizophrenia is a severe mental illness in which
patients have basically a distorted perception of reality. So they
can hear things and sometimes see things that are not
really there, so they have hallucinations, and they also have
delusions in terms of thinking that things are happening whether
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they're not really happening, and they have unfortunately impaired cognition
sometimes to tea making decisions sometimes just really basic decisions.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Essentially, it kind of the brain's gone rogue basically, right.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Yes, Yes, it's a really devastating disease early.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
How cold is it?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
About one person of one hundred will have schizophrenia, so
it's not rare, it's relatively common. But it does run
in families, so if you have a family history of
someone with schizophrenia, there's a higher risk of getting it
than if you're in the general population with no history.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And you were talking about the average age, maybe when
when does it start?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, it's a lifelong disease, so it can start the
symptoms start manifesting usually in the late teens early twenties,
but now we understand that this is a neurodevelopmental disorder
that in fact can start much earlier than that. Well,
the symptoms can sometimes remain hidden until the teenage years,
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which is when there there's a lot of stress going
on in the brain, a lot of things changes are
happening in the brain, and those are when the symptoms
manifest themselves. But it is an illness that could start
early in life. Basically, it's kind of.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Like putting a pot of water on the stove and
you don't it just sits there and gets hotter and
hotter until ultimately it boils. But you don't see the
boiling until it's happening.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Wow, that's actually a very good analogy. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Feel free to use that next time you need. It
doesn't go up with age, No.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Actually it does not. So basically, you're born, you are
born with a set of genes you know, jeans, and
you're inherited from your parents. And like I said, this
illness runs in families. But then there's an environmental component,
so exposures to stressful life events, things of that nature
that can trigger the disorder. So just the gens by
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themselves is not enough. You have to have a trigger
stressor and that occurs early in life. But your risk
does not increase with age. No, this is something that
if you don't have it, I would say, by if
there's no symptoms by the age of forty year five.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Well that's good to know at least. Key about let's
talk about treatment then, what for people who do develop this,
what can we do for them?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Well, there is it's a sad illness, you know, and
it takes a lot of business for the psychiatrists to
make sure what kind of medications they have, and this
can take some time, but there is possibility of having
a life, a good life once you have an identify
the set of medications that are going to help. There's
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a lot of caregiving. Families need to be really involved
with that, and sometimes that's hard because as a family
member it's difficult to deal with these disorders. But once
you have the patient that is stable and there's a
routine that you create for these patients, really minimizing stress
is one of the main basic things. It's the patient
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has a life where they have a routine and they
know what to expect about things, and they can have
a pretty good life. So there is hope. It's that illness,
but there can be a good treatments that are out there.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
It helps a sense a little hesitation in you to
you know devastating it is.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
And then the sad thing is that when the symptoms
first start, it's hard for the family members to deal
with it and to get help. It's a really hard thing.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
So what is what is step one? What is step one?
If someone recognizes these symptoms in a family member, where
do they turn first?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, So step one is exactly that to be aware
of these symptoms. You know, sometimes we say, oh, it's
a teenager, that's just the way they are, right. But
if this, for example, if the person starts to isolate
themselves a lot all of a sudden, or the grades
start going down, or they spend a lot of times
by themselves, that that's not something they were normally doing.
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Those are symptoms that we need to watch out for
and then seek help. This is really important not to
be afraid to go to psychologists or to psychiatrists like
we would for any other doctor. You know, and when
you start having a headache or you have a problem,
you got a doctor, right. Well, I think that's the
same thing we need to do early on. In the
earlier that's done, the better chances for a good life
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down the line.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So if we get somebody on kind of a treatment regimen,
do the symptoms in the manifestations and all of the
issues that go along with this, do they kind of
come and go? Do they ebb and flow or is
it just constant?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
They know they do eb and flow in fact, And
it has to do with daily route. Like I say,
if a patient has a good routine, a good care,
there can be okay, but then something happens that's you know, difficult,
different from their normal routine. That can sometimes cause stress
and so then the symptoms reappear, but the treatments can
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help minimize that and then they can just get back
to their normal routine again. So they do eb and
flow and it's not something that goes away. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, that's it, because it would be. I think if
you were caring for somebody who has schizophrenia and they
had three or four straight really good days, you think, oh, wow,
we've turned a corner.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
But that's no, that's not the case.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Well, the more we know, the better equipped we will
be to deal with something like this. If we ever
have to talk about the challenges for caregivers. This isn't easy,
is it.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
No, No, I have to and I could share with you.
I care for my sister who has cazophrenia, so that
is why I can speak to that as well. It's
very hard, it takes a lot of patience, and we
need support ourselves. As a caregiver. It's important that you
have a network of people you can rely on and
to go and if sometimes you just feel totally stressed out,
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that there's somebody else that can maybe take over for
you for a few days. So it's important to take
care of our own mental health when we're dealing with
our loved ones.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's so important, no matter what age, no matter what
the condition. If you're caring for somebody full time, almost
all the time, all the time, you need a break.
You need a break, don't you. Yeah? In the movie.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
In the movies, people with schizophrenia sometimes portrayed as having
short triggers and then turning violent. Is that anywhere near accurate?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Actually, no, I'm really glad you brought that up. Most
patients know they are. Actually they are the ones that
are terrified. They are so afraid they will not even
leave their room or leave their houses because they are
really afraid of being around other people and afraid of
themselves being attacked. So that portrayal it does happen. I
will not say that, you know, when there is a
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trigger that sometimes they can get I wouldn't stay violent,
but agitated. And that can sometimes be portrayed as scary,
you know, because it's a it's a reaction that you're
not that all of a sudden there sometimes happens just
out of the blue. And so I think those portrayals
are what is what we see on movies, but that
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is not the general case. They tend to be gentle
people that are really mostly afraid of others.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Doctor Cusuela Walt's best. Thank you so very much for
sharing this with you. And I know that it's not
going to cure it, but it's gonna ease some people's minds,
perhaps if they're dealing with this at home.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Thank you, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
All right, all right, we got to take a little
break all the way out. I'm going to tell you
about Berry Hill Baja Grill. This is one of my
favorite places. So I'm fifty nine down there in sugar
Land at Sugar Creek Boulevard. Very easy to find, can't
miss it, big old, big old place right there. You
could throw a rock to the freeway or to the
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restaurant from either side. Been around there thirty something years.
Has some of the best fish tacos on the planet.
I originally wrote in Southeast Texas, you know, probably the
whole state. And perhaps because I haven't eaten a whole
lot of fish tacos anywhere else and don't really have
any desire to, I would say maybe in the whole country.
Who knows. You'll have to try them for yourself to
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see what I'm talking about. The people. When I'm my
wife and I found Burry Hill right at thirty years ago,
I believe it's been there that long. If it hasn't,
I'm surprised because I've always known it to be there,
and I've lived in sugar Land for thirty two years. Now.
This is your chance to try. If you've never been there,
it's your chance to try. A very casual, family friendly
(19:45):
restaurant that's, by the way, had the same two primary
chefs in the kitchen for more than a decade, just
churning out delicious varieties of Mexican food favorites tex mex
food favorites. And if you're brand new, go in there.
If you're by yourself, just go in there and let
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the servers know it, let anybody else know it, and
probably before you leave. I've seen this happen, somebody's gonna say, hey,
come join us, who are you, why you in here?
What do you want to know? And they'll they'll welcome
you in, and they're all good people. There's families over kind
of to the left. As you walk in at tables
and boosts, and there's the sports bar side on the right,
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and then there's outdoor dining as well. That's gonna be
pretty comfortable, probably for at least another month or two.
Berryhillsugarland dot com they also do catering, by the way,
all over town. We've had them come down here a
couple of times now and serve us and delicious Berryhillsugarland
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dot com.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank
you all for listening. I truly do enjoy this and
I greatly appreciate you giving me some of your lunchtime.
(21:10):
I hope it's not interrupting your lunch, and I'll do
my level best to never say anything that will hurt
your appetite in the very least.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Will you want some good news or you want to
do a little fun stuff, Let's do a little fun stuff.
By the way, Today Will is National Streaming Day, which
that's kind of a contemporary thing. Huh, Yeah, hadn't been
around a long time. Actually talking about streaming like a
Netflix or are they talking about streaming like a twitch?
(21:43):
I have no idea. I have no idea will what
they're talking about. But what my version would include is
a fly rod and some big rainbow trial. That's my
idea of streaming. I don't. I would much rather be
on any body of water, even small ones. And I
(22:05):
fished some very small water and actually caught some pretty
decent fish out of it. I would rather be there
than sitting in front of any screen and as a sidebar.
In professional bass fishing now and creeping into the saltwater fishing,
(22:26):
the use of forward facing sonar. Have you ever heard
of that? So here's the deal. They have this new
electronic ability now for not only for the rebound of
a signal off of something in front of the boat
or below the boat. Used to be you could just
(22:48):
see straight down. Now you can send that signal out
in front of you and sit there. And a lot
of these big fancy bass boats have monitors as big
as these on the front, and.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
It is.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Detailed enough that you can tell a catfish from a bass,
You can tell crappie from big white bass, or whatever.
You can tell different species of fish. That's how detailed
it is, so what a lot of people are doing,
and it's being in you. And I won't dwell on
this because I don't know how much of this audience
(23:25):
likes to fish. But what you can do is target
bigger fish with this stuff. It makes sense everybody wants
to catch bigger fish. But now there is a trend,
and there was a there was a professional bass fisherman
after so many people had come before him and learned
to fish the old fashioned way, kind of trial and air,
(23:48):
learning from your peers, learning from people who had more
experience than you. Now they just go out on the
lake and ride around and just look for a big
old fish on the screen and then drop a lure
down there and you could watch the lure go down.
You can watch the fish eat the lure and then
just reel it did and traditionalists old school, and I've
(24:09):
done it both ways. Okay, I've used forward facing sonar
before and it's it's cute and all, but it sure
does take away some of the mystique and some of
the romance of traditional fishing. So there was one professional
bass fisherman, when asked what he'd done that day or
(24:31):
why he didn't catch any bass that day, and his
answer was, you can't catch them if you can't see them,
and that of course not fishing will Yeah. I thought
that was kind of the point. That's watching TV. That's
just And then a good friend of mine actually had
(24:51):
a son, an adult son in one of his buddies
who went fishing, I think on Lake Conroe. It's been
about a year ago or so, but they they also
had that device in their boat, and when asked later
in the day whether they had caught or how much
time they'd spent fishing, whatever, the sun answered. We never
(25:16):
made a cast. We never even made a cast because
we didn't see a good fish. They didn't even try,
not even for the little ones. Nothing for nothing. And
if you don't just because you don't see one in
front of the boat or directly under the boat in
deeper water, doesn't mean you can't cast off to the
left or the right. I mean, it's just I don't know.
(25:37):
I'm old school. I like fishing. I love fishing. I
don't have to see them to catch them. I just
have to make another cast. If I don't get one
on this cast, I'll get one on the next cast.
That's enough fishing. Uh, watch your step, pardon the interruption
or try again part in the interruption. Microsoft has a
new report out that claims office employees are interrupted by meetings, emails,
(26:01):
and chats. How often will is it in a percentage? No,
it's in time? Oh, in time? I would say, Well,
meetings can kind of vary that, so I would say
maybe an hour and a half of the day. No,
I didn't ask you that. Let me rephrase the question.
(26:22):
Let me dumb it down, will I'm just kidding. So here,
here's what I need to know. How often do they
get interrupted by something? What interval of time passes while
they're they're working, working, working, then an interruption? Oh, and
they're working working. What you got it now?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, okay, So I'll say everyquently, I'll say every twelve minutes,
every two minutes, two minutes, every two minutes. There's some interruption.
For me, it's emails. I get a lot a lot
of emails, and some text messages and just other distractions.
People walk by the desk. Now I do have of
(27:00):
a little secluded desk. I'm at the kind I'm against
the window, and there are two people insulating me from
from idle chatter. But it's still when I think of
it like that, I realize how often we're distracted and
how difficult it is to really truly focus, which is
kind of it goes along with the actual inability of
(27:23):
anybody to focus on two things at once one minute.
That it one minute from the Eiffel Tower desk, I'll
do that in one minute. Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo
has requested two thousand, no excuse me, twenty three thousand
to three hundred dollars from the county's purse so that
(27:44):
she and three county employees can promote the county's economic
growth in Paris. They're gonna take a little time over
in Paris to promote Hughston. She tried to get that
money this past week, but didn't get the required votes.
And that's possibly said the story because she didn't tell
(28:06):
the public where she and her crew were going to
go for twenty three thousand dollars, And I guess I
don't know. Well, the three hundred wouldn't even cover tips.
Probably county budget, by the way, I said to be
running at a one hundred and twenty nine million dollar deficit,
so hey, what's another twenty four grand uh, Lena wants
(28:26):
to see the she wants to see the Eiffel Tower.
I guess a late health is the vascular clinic at
which you can be seen and treated for such things
such annoying bothersome things as in large non cancerous prostates,
as fibroids and women, as head pain and anybody that's
(28:48):
got it, as ugly veins and anybody who has them,
and other things. I interviewed doctor Doe recently about all
the things that are listed on his website that they
do at a late health, and it was fascinating, really,
some of the things that can be done with these tiny,
tiny tubes that some of which are about the size
(29:12):
of a human hair, that can be guided in through
your blood system to fix a problem somehow. It's fascinating. Really.
Go to the website, look around. You'll see all the
things they can do. You won't learn how to do them,
but you'll certainly see what they can do over there
for you to make you feel better, look better, and
(29:32):
well those kind of things. Those two things go hand
in hand really, and late health does a great deal
of work toward that end for anybody and everybody who
can get over there. Most of what they do is
covered by Medicare and Medicaid. All of what they do
happens right there in their offices, so that you don't
have to worry about going to the hospital and dragging
home something you didn't go in there with. And they
(29:54):
also do regenerative regenerative medicine, by the way, which is
so helpful with extreme chronic pain. A late health alate
a latehealth dot com is a website. Give them a call,
set up a consultation, and see what they can do
to make you feel better. Seven one, three, five, eight, eight,
thirty eight eighty eight seven to one, three, five, eight, eight,
(30:15):
thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Hi, Welcome back to fifty plus, fourth and final segment
of Stars Now. I was just reading a story about
allen out in Oakland, California. Small business owners, probably in
the downtown area, are dealing with graffiti being painted on
the walls of their little tiny businesses and the city
is finding them for having that graffiti on the walls.
(30:49):
They go out. There was one shop owner. She said,
they go out and paint over it and clean it
up as fast as they can at their own expense,
and then these come back along and spray something else
on the wall, and the next day they get fined
again for having that stuff out there. That is so
(31:11):
that's just such a liberal way of thinking to blame
the victim and not the criminal, and not do anything
about the criminals. I presume they don't do any sort
of enforcement on that, otherwise perhaps the problem would slow down.
But this this one woman says she got fined. She
(31:34):
went to pay what she thought was going to be
a five hundred dollars fine for one recent episode and
gets there and is told it's going to be three
thousand dollars because of late fees. That's messed up. That
is just brutally messed up. Speaking of from the Hold
(31:54):
the Onion's Desk, if you haven't heard yet or haven't
read yet, there is a man who is suing a
fast food chain. I'm not going to mention where. I'm
not going to mention what fast food chain. But apparently,
according to the suit, they served him a burger with
onions when he specifically asked for no onions. Suit claims
(32:18):
he suffered injuries that required medical attention. Asking for more
than a quarter million dollars. A couple of years ago,
the man filed a similar suit against another fast feud chain,
and I'm not judging either of his claims. Okay, I'm
not in a position to judge them. I haven't read them,
(32:39):
I don't know all the details. But either in my mind,
I would either stop eating fast food burgers or I
would do what I do. At one place where I
buy sandwich is for my wife, on which we specifically
ask for mayo and mushrooms and have ac atto slices
(33:00):
on her sandwich. And sometimes the people on the preparation
line mistake mu for mustard when in their codes it's
actually mushrooms, and so there's mustard on her sandwich, and
sheet doesn't like mustard, so I have to show it
(33:21):
to them and ask them to remake the sandwich. Not
that big a deal, but I don't take home sandwiches
with mustard on them for her because she doesn't like it.
But I'm not going to sue the place either. Yeah,
if he's gotten medical issues, that's one thing, but again,
just open the wrapper before you leave the store and
(33:43):
look at it, and then if there are onions on there,
make them make you a new one, make them make
you a new one. And I'm sure they would be
happy to do that under the circumstances, and nobody would
have to go to the doctor, and everybody would be okay.
From the Seashells on the beach desk. By way of Breitbart,
comes word that former FBI director James Comy told MSNBC
(34:06):
that his own famous walk walk on the walk on
the beach what was it? A couple of weeks ago,
says he and his wife found these shells arranged on
the beach as eight six four seven and thought it
would be a good idea to post that not so
cryptic message on x which he soon took down by
the way after people with clear heads were offended. And
(34:28):
not quite sure that's exactly how that dawn on the
beach unfolded. Anyway, He said he thought it was a
quote clever way to express a political view, end quote,
and would never associate himself with violence of any kind
for a man who got fired a long time ago
(34:50):
by President Trump. I don't know if that's how it
all went down, and I hope it is, but I'm
not sure. FBI Deputy Director now Dan Bongino, a lo
with a whole lot of other people said, there is
no way that Komy didn't know exactly what that meant.
Anybody who's worked in the restaurant business, and that includes
(35:12):
a lot of teenagers, knows what eighty six means and
in that lingo and that I don't know how it
got there. I don't know what happened. But that's a mess.
Let's go back to the easy fun stuff. Will you
want some good news or you want easy fun again?
Let's do some good news. Okay, I'll do this. There's
(35:32):
a guy in Canada. He's gained a lot of notoriety
actually in his retirement by traveling from town to town
and he goes to a popular park or shopping center
or whatever. He sets up a card table and two chairs.
He's got a little sign and he listens to people.
He's a registered social worker in Nova Scotia, been at
(35:54):
that for a very long time. He's retired from that,
and listening is something he's done throughout his career, helping
seniors had trouble maybe getting answers to medical questions or
whatever kind of questions, or just finding anyone who would
listen to their cares and concerns. And he doesn't charge
a dying for it either. He's just doing that because
(36:16):
it's a nice thing to do for people. And little sign,
little sign says you are not alone. I will listen,
sit down, relax, no cost listening. Feel like doing that someday?
Will we could go do it? Just set up set
up at like West Timer and Voss. Just put a
little chair out there on the corner. I'm listening. You
(36:40):
want to do that one afternoon? I mean, we are listening.
People can call in. Well, that's true, they could. They
could and we wouldn't have to go and sit outside.
And well they can always use the talkback button or iHeartRadio.
That's the easiest way. By the way, if you're listening
on anything other than your car radio and looking at
(37:01):
you can look at the app and you can see
there's a call or a talk to us button, talk
to button, something like that, and if you push that
it will give you I think of what fifteen to
twenty seconds. Yeah, to bear your soul. Whatever you want
to say, you say it, I will get word that
has come in there and I will go listen to
it right after the show. I really will a quote
(37:21):
from him says, I create safe space for them, a
little bit like the stranger on the airplane you're never
going to see again. Only Paul Jenkinson does it willingly.
What a cool guy, What a just darned cool guy.
All right, we got one minute, one minute, try again.
Water Logged or punctuation in peril. Water Logged studies found
(37:47):
that a person's fingers wrinkle in the same pattern every
time when they spend too much time in the pool
or the bathtub. That's so, it's an interesting thing, but
just as quickly as I was interested by it, I
was bored by it. Yeah, who cares? I don't care.
(38:10):
And who's who did we pay to study that? Will
somebody who likes being in the pool? It's hot outside?
Pretty good? Hut? Yeah, that's that's a pretty good bet too.
First mass produced flying car is going to go on
sale early next year. But they are not cheap. Well,
the base model is eight hundred thousand dollars. Wow, And
(38:31):
it's basically just a sports car with retractable wings, not
a hover car, none of that stuff. So you're still
gonna need a runway and a pilot's slicense by a plane.
We'll see tomorrow,
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