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I walk almost every day in the Kenmore area, and more and more often I'm in danger of getting clipped or knocked down by kids on bikes and scooters, especially the electric ones, which are very quiet. It's especially hard to hear them coming up from behind when there's noise from adjacent traffic. They make no effort to move over onto the grass, and very few call out a warning. (Thanks to those who do!)

I'm older and currently going through cancer treatment, so walking is important for my recovery and overall health, but chemo puts me at risk of falling. Today I was startled when one kid on a bike came speeding up from behind with no warning, followed closely by a kid on a scooter who actually brushed me.

If your kids ride on the sidewalk, please remind them to shout out a warning to pedestrians who are walking ahead of them. A collision could have serious consequences.

The Screening Room, which had to close earlier this year due to the impending demolition of the Boulevard Mall, is moving to 3200 Elmwood Ave. in the Town of Tonawanda (north of Sheridan), with the grand opening on Dec. 1. (Their HorrorFest will take place prior to that, in October/November.) We've missed them! Their website says the new location will seat 100, and they'll have access to a 250-seat theater for larger events.

The building used to be the Philip Sheridan Elementary School, and the owners have done an excellent job repurposing it. It's now home to a daycare center, bakery, comedy club, dance studios, fitness center, and many small businesses. The Screening Room should be a great fit.

I'd love to see Max do an episode about Egyptian koshary, the "food of the poor" that's typically sold as street food. My son first discovered it when he spent a semester in Cairo, and we were lucky to find a restaurant close to home that offered it. It's a delicious combination of rice, lentils, garlic, onions, chickpeas and vermicelli, often eaten with tomato sauce and lemon juice.

I had my third infusion of docetaxel/cyclophosphamide (Taxotere/Cytoxan) on Wednesday, and the stomach pain keeps getting worse. It feels as if someone is cutting a hole in my stomach. At first my team recommended Tums and Pepcid AC, but they didn't help much, and there's an eight-hour window where I can't take Tums because it interferes with my thyroid medication.

When I told my medical oncologist about this, she prescribed pantoprazole (Protonix), which lists stomach pain as a common side effect! It almost seems to be making things worse.

The only thing that really helps is having food in my stomach, but now I'm gaining weight, and obviously I can't eat 24 hours a day.

Has anyone experienced this and found a solution?

Has anyone used just compression socks and too-small surgical gloves — without cooling gloves/socks — to prevent peripheral neuropathy on TC? If so, did it work?

I bought cooling gloves and socks with one extra set of gel packs, but you're supposed to start cooling half an hour before the first infusion and keep it up for another half hour afterward. That means I'd need to take five sets of gel packs in a cooler, and not only would that be expensive, but it seems like a lot of heavy paraphernalia to carry in and out.

Also, I was looking forward to reading and writing while in the chair, but that won't be possible with the gloves on.

I'm thinking of cooling half an hour before the infusion and half an hour at the beginning, and then continuing with just the compression socks and surgical gloves.

I just noticed a Buffalo News headline in my news feed stating that a Buffalo Medical Group patient was able to view another patient's billing records, which BMG calls an "isolated event." (We don't subscribe, so I can't read the article.)

This concerns me because a few weeks ago when my husband checked out after visiting his primary care doctor at BMG, he was given a printout of another person's visit summary that included a lot of very personal medical information. He didn't realize the mistake until he got home, and when he called, they just asked him to destroy it.

Also, I had a screening mammogram two weeks ago that detected a mass in my right breast, and I have to go back for a sonogram and possible biopsy on Monday. My OB/GYN at BMG sent me a script for a sonogram of my *left* breast. When I contacted them and pointed out the error, I was simply told that they would send me an amended script. (Not even a "whoops – sorry!")

Has anyone else experienced these types of mistakes recently?