Palm Beach Post (Part2) "Hairline Stops Retreating" feat Dr. Alan Bauman
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1D <pagelabeltag> Cost of dentistry driving Emily (and many of us) to tears ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE LOPEZ Put your money where your mouth is We all have disjointed memories from when we were kids — weird, foggy mem- ories that might be more myth than truth. And one of mine is standing out- side Dr. Salchow’s office when I was 5 years old, screaming, crying, because I didn’t want to go to the dentist for my kindergarten check-up. Truth is, I have no idea if I actually stood there on the sidewalk along Main Street, making a scene outside Dr. Sal- chow’s white-clapboard office. The only real memory I have from 1961 is the play kitchen with the wooden appliances and red knobs that actually turned in Mrs. Bailey’s kindergarten classroom. But, still, I own this story as though it were true, as real as my age or my eye color or the freckles on my face. And I’ve carried it with me, all these years. When I think of the dentist, I think of crying — more or less. Emily J. Minor Minor continued on 2D Hair apparent: My dis-tress is being relieved I admit it: I was skeptical (partly by nature, partly by profession). When I wrote in May about beginning a noninvasive hair-restoration program under the (pro bono) care of Boca Raton hair-restoration specialist Dr. Alan Bauman (baumanmedical.com), I wasn’t expecting much. Sure, the good doctor had knowingly remarked at the end of my evaluation, “I think you’ll eventually be very pleased with the results” — after putting me on a protocol that included topical application of his uniquely compounded form of Minoxidil, combined with the daily ingestion of hair-growth supplements and thrice-weekly laser-light therapy. But, at most, I figured that a few wispy new strands might start popping up four, five, six months down the road in the severely thinning areas — at the hairline, and along the temples. Certainly, though, nothing to get excited about — and definitely not anytime soon. I must say: I don’t know if I’ve ever been happier to be so wrong. Dorfman continued on 5D Fight back, follicles: Top: This was Steve’s hair- line just a few weeks into treatment. Bottom: This is Steve’s hairline after a little more than two months of restorative treatment. Steve Dorfman Boomer Health Just like the Soviet army at Stalingrad, my hairline has finally stopped retreating. In the fight of her life By Barbara Marshall Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Paula Richards expected the news to be bad, but it still hit hard. “If you don’t have a liv- er transplant by October, you won’t live to see Christmas,” her doctors told the 53-year-old Wellington mother of four last month. Richards’ liver has been slow- ly destroyed by hepatitis C, ac- quired during a blood transfu- sion in 1987. She didn’t learn she had the disease for more than 20 years. No longer able to work, the former Smokey Bones waitress sold her car to raise money for her medications and moved in- to her boyfriend’s townhouse. “My mom is so yellow from jaundice she’s the color of a highlighter,” said her eldest daughter, Hope. A liver transplant costs about $575,000, and Richards lost her insurance in February. After months of frantic pa- per-pushing, she was recently accepted to Medicaid and Social Security Disability Insurance. Acceptance paved the way for transplant approval. Next month, she’ll meet with her transplant team at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami to prepare for surgery. However, she’s been told she Richards continued on 2D She contracted hepatitis C during a blood transfusion, and now Paula Richards needs a new liver — and the help of the community. ‘My mom is so yellow from jaundice she’s the color of a highlighter.’ Hope Paula Richards’ eldest daughter Benefit for Paula: After contracting hepatitis C from a blood transfusion, Paula Richards needs a liver transplant soon or she’ll die, doctors say. The former waitress has no health insurance, but was recently approved for Medicaid/Medicare and the $575,000 transplant. She will still have to pay a percentage of the cost as well as up to $2,000 a month for anti-re- jection drugs. She’s already sold her car to pay for current medications. Adding to her fears, one of her daughters is being deployed to Afghanistan next month. ALLEN EYESTONE / THE PALM BEACH POST Want to help Paula? There is a benefit and raffle being held this weekend for her. Details, 2D Cross-dressing commotion in Carlin Park By Hap Erstein Special to The Palm Beach Post If you were categorizing William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, it would certainly be one of the Bard’s comedies, even though the current Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival production empha- sizes the play’s melancholy side. And not just because the action begins with a shipwreck. At Jupiter’s Seabreeze Amphitheater in Carlin Park, where the show contin- ues through Sunday evening, that ship has been turned into a South Pacific Air- ways plane. It crashes with high impact, thanks to the efforts of production de- signer Daniel Gordon and the sound ef- fects of Chris Bell, dumping the passen- gers — including grown twins Viola and Sebastian — onto the tropical island of Il- lyria. Fortunately, the play then proceeds with relative fidelity to Shakespeare, even if the final moments throw every- thing we have just seen in doubt. Natu- rally, that has a way of putting a damper on the original happy ending. Otherwise, this Twelfth Night is typ- ical Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival. It features a few fine performers in key roles and almost as many in support that are simply not up to the task. Still, in its Shakespeare continued on 5D THEATER ‘TWELFTH NIGHT,’ JUPITER ‘TWELFTH NIGHT’ B Where: Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival, Seabreeze Amphitheater, Carlin Park, A1A and Indiantown Road,Jupiter. When: Through Sunday Tickets: Free, with a $5 suggested donation. Call: (561) 966-7099. The verdict: A melancholy spin on the Shakespearean comedy of shipwrecked twins, with a standout performance by director Kevin Crawford as easily duped Malvolio. Katherine Seldin (Olivia), Krys Parker (Viola) and Jim Brogan (Duke Orsino) in Twelfth Night. Shakespeare Festival’s production is enjoyable. PHOTO PROVIDED The Palm Beach Post | Tuesday, July 17, 2012 D Accent Culture Editor: Larry Aydlette (561) 820-4436 [email protected] | On the web: palmbeachpost.com Vitiligo affects millions. The YOU Docs, 4D HEALTHYLIVING
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Palm Beach Post writer, Steve Dorfman, was skeptical when Dr. Alan Bauman prescribed a non-invasive medical regimen to help stop the hair loss he was experiencing. But, only eight weeks into the regimen of compounded prescription "82M" minoxidil twice a day and the 100% cordless, hands-free LaserCap every other day, he's seeing dramatic improvement in hair growth, including hair color, quality and texture. Before and After photos of Steve are included in this article, which appeared on 07-17-2012. For more information on hair loss and its treatment using 82M Minoxidil or LaserCap, visit Dr. Alan Bauman's website at http://www.baumanmedical.com
Transcript of Palm Beach Post (Part2) "Hairline Stops Retreating" feat Dr. Alan Bauman
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Cost of dentistry driving Emily (andmany of us) to tears
ILLUSTRATION BY STEVE LOPEZ
Put your money where your mouth is
We all have disjointed memories fromwhen we were kids — weird, foggy mem-ories that might be more myth thantruth. And one of mine is standing out-side Dr. Salchow’s office when I was 5years old, screaming, crying, because Ididn’t want to go to the dentist for mykindergarten check-up.
Truth is, I have no idea if I actuallystood there on the sidewalk along MainStreet, making a scene outside Dr. Sal-chow’s white-clapboard office. The onlyreal memory I have from 1961 is the play
kitchen with the wooden appliances andred knobs that actually turned in Mrs.Bailey’s kindergarten classroom. But,still, I own this story as though it weretrue, as real as my age or my eye color orthe freckles on my face.
And I’ve carried it with me, all theseyears.
When I think of the dentist, I think ofcrying —more or less.
Emily J.Minor
Minor continued on 2D
Hair apparent:My dis-tress isbeing relieved
I admit it: I was skeptical (partly by nature,partly by profession).
When I wrote in May about beginninga noninvasive hair-restoration programunder the (pro bono) care of Boca Ratonhair-restoration specialist Dr. Alan Bauman(baumanmedical.com), I wasn’t expectingmuch.
Sure, the good doctor had knowinglyremarked at the end of my evaluation, “I thinkyou’ll eventually be very pleased with theresults” — after putting me on a protocol thatincluded topical application of his uniquelycompounded form of Minoxidil, combined withthe daily ingestion of hair-growth supplementsand thrice-weekly laser-light therapy.
But, at most, I figured that a few wispy newstrands might start popping up four, five, sixmonths down the road in the severely thinningareas — at the hairline, and along the temples.
Certainly, though, nothing to get excitedabout — and definitely not anytime soon.
I must say: I don’t know if I’ve ever beenhappier to be so wrong.
Dorfman continued on 5D
Fight back,follicles:Top: This wasSteve’s hair-line just a fewweeks intotreatment.Bottom: Thisis Steve’shairline aftera little morethan twomonths ofrestorativetreatment.
Steve DorfmanBoomer Health
Just like the Soviet army atStalingrad, my hairline hasfinally stopped retreating.
In the fight of her lifeBy Barbara MarshallPalm Beach Post Staff Writer
Paula Richards expected thenews to be bad, but it still hithard.
“If you don’t have a liv-er transplant by October, youwon’t live to see Christmas,”her doctors told the 53-year-oldWellington mother of four lastmonth.
Richards’ liver has been slow-ly destroyed by hepatitis C, ac-quired during a blood transfu-sion in 1987. She didn’t learnshe had the disease for morethan 20 years.
No longer able to work, theformer Smokey Bones waitresssold her car to raise money forher medications and moved in-to her boyfriend’s townhouse.
“My mom is so yellow fromjaundice she’s the color of ahighlighter,” said her eldestdaughter, Hope.
A liver transplant costs about$575,000, and Richards lost herinsurance in February.
After months of frantic pa-per-pushing, she was recentlyaccepted to Medicaid and SocialSecurity Disability Insurance.Acceptance paved the way fortransplant approval.
Next month, she’ll meet withher transplant team at JacksonMemorial Hospital in Miami toprepare for surgery.
However, she’s been told she
Richards continued on 2D
She contracted hepatitis C during a blood transfusion, and now PaulaRichards needs a new liver— and the help of the community.
‘Mymom is soyellow fromjaundice she’sthe color of ahighlighter.’HopePaula Richards’ eldest daughter
Benefit for Paula: After contracting hepatitis C from a blood transfusion, Paula Richardsneeds a liver transplant soon or she’ll die, doctors say. The former waitress has no healthinsurance, but was recently approved for Medicaid/Medicare and the $575,000 transplant.She will still have to pay a percentage of the cost as well as up to $2,000 a month for anti-re-jection drugs. She’s already sold her car to pay for current medications. Adding to her fears,one of her daughters is being deployed to Afghanistan next month.
ALLEN EYESTONE / THE PALM BEACH POST
Want to help Paula? There is a benefit and raffle being held this weekend for her. Details, 2D
Cross-dressing commotion in Carlin Park
By Hap ErsteinSpecial to The Palm Beach Post
If you were categorizing WilliamShakespeare’s Twelfth Night, it wouldcertainly be one of the Bard’s comedies,even though the current Palm BeachShakespeare Festival production empha-sizes the play’s melancholy side. Andnot just because the action begins with ashipwreck.
At Jupiter’s Seabreeze Amphitheaterin Carlin Park, where the show contin-ues through Sunday evening, that shiphas been turned into a South Pacific Air-
ways plane. It crashes with high impact,thanks to the efforts of production de-signer Daniel Gordon and the sound ef-fects of Chris Bell, dumping the passen-gers — including grown twins Viola andSebastian — onto the tropical island of Il-lyria.
Fortunately, the play then proceedswith relative fidelity to Shakespeare,even if the final moments throw every-thing we have just seen in doubt. Natu-rally, that has a way of putting a damperon the original happy ending.
Otherwise, this Twelfth Night is typ-ical Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival.It features a few fine performers in keyroles and almost as many in support thatare simply not up to the task. Still, in its
Shakespeare continued on 5D
THEATER ‘TWELFTHNIGHT,’ JUPITER
‘TWELFTHNIGHT’BWhere: Palm BeachShakespeare Festival,Seabreeze Amphitheater,Carlin Park, A1A andIndiantown Road,Jupiter.
When: Through Sunday
Tickets: Free, with a $5suggested donation. Call:(561) 966-7099.
The verdict: A melancholyspin on the Shakespeareancomedy of shipwreckedtwins, with a standoutperformance by directorKevin Crawford as easilyduped Malvolio.
Katherine Seldin (Olivia), Krys Parker (Viola) and JimBrogan (Duke Orsino) in Twelfth Night.
Shakespeare Festival’sproduction is enjoyable.
PHOTO PROVIDED
The Palm Beach Post | Tuesday, July 17, 2012
D AccentCulture Editor: Larry Aydlette (561) 820-4436 [email protected] | On the web: palmbeachpost.com
Vitiligoaffectsmillions.The YOU Docs, 4D
HEALTHYLIVING
Noticeable differenceAs Dr. Bauman had ex-
plained to me, the firstgoal in any hair-growthrestoration treatment is“to preserve the hair youalready have.”
Even though I’ve yet tovisit Dr. Bauman’s officeyet for my three-monthprogress report (duringwhich my hair volume and
growth rate will be mea-sured via state-of-the-arttechnology), this much Ifeel secure in reporting:
Just like the Soviet armyat Stalingrad, my previous-ly thinning, receding hair-line has finally stopped re-treating.
Even better — and to ex-tend the World War II anal-ogy — it’s gone on the at-tack!
Yes, those tiny follicu-lar soldiers have definitelytaken a stand, respondingto treatment by regroup-ing, literally and figura-tively.
The indisputable proofis in these photos.
Not only is the hairline(and surrounding area)looking thicker, but the in-creased density also makes
the color appear darker.When friends and col-
leagues had learned of myrestoration efforts, all hadremarked that my hair losshadn’t appeared notice-able to them.
However, that’s exactlywhy, if hair retention is im-portant to you, the time tostart a restoration programis at the first sign of any de-terioration.
While the old-schoolside of me wanted to shrugoff caring about my thin-ning dome, I’m glad I al-lowed my more metrosex-ual tendencies to guide meon this one.
And, it turns out I’m notalone:
Last week, the Los An-geles Times reported thatmen’s grooming products
make up the fastest-grow-ing segment in the beauty/cosmetics industry (onerule, though: Nothing tar-geted at men can be called“makeup”).
I doubt I’ll ever spendmuch (read: any) time ormoney adopting a skin-care regimen.
But then again, therewas a time I would’ve saidthe same thing about hairrestoration.
On average, topicaltreatments/supplementscost $500 and the LaserCapfor the at-home laser thera-py costs $3,000.
Dorfmancontinued from 1D
With morehair, coloris darker
22nd year of presentingoutdoor theater, the fes-tival continues to offer anevening’s sort-of-classi-cal entertainment free ofcharge, drawing sizablethrongs of modern-daygroundlings.
The play is a buffet of fa-miliar Shakespearean plotdevices, including mistak-en identity, gender confu-sion, cruel tricks played onthe pompous and, eventu-ally, the enduring power ofromance.
Separated from herbrother in the crash, Vio-la (an assured, verbally ad-ept Krys Parker) dons a va-nilla-colored three-piecesuit and passes herself offas dude Cesario in orderto better find her twin, Se-bastian.
She — as a he — quick-ly attracts the romantic at-tentions of countess Ol-ivia (a too-bland, girlishKatherine Seldin). Cesario/Viola counters by encour-aging Duke Orsino (in-
Shakespearecontinued from 1D
Crawfordexcels asMalvolio
over-his-head Jim Bro-gan, curiously miscast asa black-clad, long-hairedSteven Tyler-like rocker)to woo Olivia, but he toobecomes smitten with Ce-sario.
Appearing in his thirdTwelfth Night with thecompany, Kevin Crawfordboth directs this produc-tion and excels as Olivia’spuritanical steward Malvo-lio, easily duped into be-lieving his mistress has ro-mantic feelings for him.
As always, Crawfordhandles the Elizabethandialogue with conversa-tional ease, and earnsthe show’s biggest laughsreading a forged love let-ter.
Costume designer Pen-ny Williams also has fun
dressing Malvolio in so-lar system-patterned paja-mas and, later, an unsuit-able suitor’s outfit of kiltsand cross-gartered yellowstockings.
Other assets are MissyMcArdle as quick-wittedfool Feste, who sings mostof her riddled wisdom, Al-an Gerstel as inebriatedSir Toby Belch, who livesup to his name, and LauraRuchala as Olivia’s saucyservant Maria.
As Palm Beach Shake-speare audiences haveprobably come to expect,this Twelfth Night is unde-niably uneven, but worththe admission price. Dona-tions are accepted, allow-ing theatergoers to pay —as the play’s subtitle putsit —What You Will.
Dr. Melanie BoneSurviving Life
Dealing with a cancer diagnosisWe just got back from
a whirlwind trip to Cali-fornia. We flew to San Di-ego where I gave a day’sworth of lectures and thendid a road trip north to LosAngeles to visit relatives,Joanne and Gary. Theyhave twins, a boy and a girlabout the same as age asmy older two children.
Sometimes cousins thathaven’t grown up aroundeach other are uncomfort-able when their parentsdecide that they shouldhang out. I was a little wor-ried about it. After all, mycousin’s children are verydifferent from mine. Theirdaughter is a Division I soc-cer player in college, andtheir son is college-boundin a another month. Myson (the only child on thetrip) is a debater and willbe a junior in high school.They hit it off and I barelysaw my son for the entiretime we were there.
My story is an exampleof how every day we en-counter uncomfortable sit-uations. How we deal withthem stems from our per-sonality and our experi-ences. I realized that I hadwasted valuable minutesof life obsessing about thatawkward moment whenthe kids were to meet. Cer-tainly they would not re-member each other from
the last time they met at afamily bar mitzvah a de-cade ago, but both theirmother and I remembered.We reassured them andthen sent them off to bond.
Cancer is like the kidsmeeting, but on a grandscale. Most cancer patientshave no real experiencewith the disease personal-ly. They have heard fromrelatives, friends or themedia about cancer, so itis a little like a distant rela-tive. Will cancer be bad ornot too bad? Will the vaca-tion with the relatives bebetter or worse than antic-ipated? How about just ex-periencing it and analyz-ing it afterward? That ismy favorite approach. Itwon’t work for people wholike to control their en-vironment, but for more
laid-back folks, it is a finechoice.
We ended up having ablast. We had barbecuesand used lemons off thetree in their backyard tomake amazing guacamo-le. On July Fourth we had adessert picnic on the lawnof Pepperdine Universi-ty and watched the Malibufireworks. We had to leavethat very night and took agroup photo that is a keep-er. A great memory for agreat time.
The 12-year anniver-sary of my cancer is lessthan a month away. I don’tdwell on it, but each daythat I diagnose somebodywith cancer or hear abouta friend with it, or a friendof a friend who was justdiagnosed, I want to tellthem that the cancer expe-rience could be like visit-ing a relative that you don’tknow well. There is uneas-iness going in, but it usu-ally turns out better thanyou thought it would.
My cousins and I agreedto keep in closer contact,so I will sign off to sendJoanne and Gary a copy ofthis and start to plan ournext trip out West.
Dr. Melanie Bone is a cancer survivor and gynecologist whopractices in West Palm Beach. Have a question? Go towww.cancer sensibilityFoundation.org or PalmBeachPost.com/health (click on the“ask a question”link.)
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