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n the movie The Lemon Sisters, Diane Keaton plays a lovably kooky character with asthma who refuses to give up her menagerie of cats, even though they aggravate her condition. She puffs away on an inhaler as her furry companions strut around the house. It gets so bad she winds up in an emergency room, zipped inside an oxygen tent. At 67, the Oscar-winning actress has starred in nearly 50 ﬁlms. But the role of an asthma sufferer is one she knows especially well. Keaton was plagued with asthma and related breathing problems as a young girl growing up in Los Angeles. In her 2011 memoir, Then Again, she recalls a lifethreatening bout with whooping cough. “I thought I was dying. I couldn’t breathe,” Keaton writes. “Asthma was bad enough, but this whoopingcough thing was way worse.” Treatment options were limited in the 1950s, so Keaton’s dad held her upside down to help her catch a breath. “When dad turned me upside down, I got my breath back almost instantaneously. It was like a miracle,” she writes. “Mom was so worried, she kept me out of school for two months of my fourthgrade year. Every day she spread Vicks VapoRub 30 SPRING 2 013

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Spring 2013 - North Mississippi

Vim & Vigor - Spring 2013 - North Mississippi
Contents
Opening Thoughts
Brain Power
No Bones About It
You're the Star
Heart-to-Heart
Lighten Up!
Have No Fear
Work It!
What Are the Chances?
9 Symptoms Never to Ignore
When Allergies Attack
Virtual Health
Botox: A New Miracle Drug?
The Doctor Will See You Now
Catch the Spirit

Vim & Vigor - Spring 2013 - North Mississippi