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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATU! RDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2024 + 5 Parents Work On Messaging For Teen’s Medical Issues DEAR ABBY: After several (also true), but to me, this will man comes to visit our neighbor WEST VIRGINIA months of weight loss, our pre- DEAR ABBY lead people to draw conclusions across the street and if he spends DEAR PRIVATE: Deal with s hospitalized that are both too close to home the night. She's always asking me this nosy woman by telling her She was di- eating disorder. But we need to and inaccurate. Please advise. where they are going and what if it was any of her business, she agnosed with ARFID, It’s an eat- say something to the people in -- NAVIGATING THIS IN THE they are doing. I told her I don’t would already know the answer ing disorder we had never heard our lives who know something MIDWEST know because I don’t pay atten- to her incessant, intrusive ques- of but one in which the patient isis wrong and ask what's going on DEAR NAVIGATING: I wish tion to what other people are do- tions. Avoid her as much as pos- NOT deliberately losing weight or and where we've been. your daughter a complete recov- ing. sible. If your across-the-street attempting to change their body. ery. Her weight loss will be ob- What should we tell people to This neighbor has now started neighbor doesn't already know, We canceled a vacation and preserve our daughter's privacy vious to anyone who sees her. If calling me ifI go out and wants to warn her that this person is in- have taken time off work to circle while acknowledging that not ev- I were doing the explaining, Id know where I went. If I go to the vading her privacy and repeating the wagons and care for her. This erything is OK? I thought some- shorten the message, eliminating doctor, she asks me why. IfI have every detail she observes to any- has caused questions from our thing like, “My daughter is having the “lost a bunch of weight” to work being done at my home, she one who will listen. friends, acquaintances, co-work- stomach problems (true) and lost something like, “Our daughter is asks how much I paid for it. If ’m ers and extended family, which a bunch of weight (true), and the having stomach issues. She’s un- out more than a few hours, she Dear Abby is written by Abigail we have been ducking. doctors are trying to figure out asks where I was for so long. der a doctor's care, and her team Van Buren, also known as Jeanne As a former sufferer of an eat- what’s going on? but my wife is is figuring out what's going on? I am a private person, and I Phillips, and was founded by her ing disorder, my wife is reluctant concerned that even mentioning Period. will tell someone if I want them mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact to let anyone outside our inner weight is going to be stigmatiz- to know. She even comes out- Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. circle know what is going on and ing. DEAR ABBY: I have a neigh- side and starts pulling weeds if I com or P.O. Box 69440, Los An- risk our daughter beginning mid- She is advocating telling peo- bor who gossips about our oth- have company. I don’t know how geles, CA 90069. dle school with the stigma of an ple our daughter is malnourished er neighbors. She tells me if a to deal with her. -- PRIVATE IN REMEMBER THAT TIME ALTRUISRE CROSSWORD But Not ACROSS = p R 1 Animal skin : 5 Application Vig] vi/GMafqf{vijijs Alas 1B See TE TOON OMe 14 —— isan VBE ENG BNO island” LIS|ALYINIA Yajli li] ayyyyv CURISTMAS I5 OVER. 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