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Your first month with hearing aids, and all that noise

The turn signal sounds like a jackhammer and your own voice sounds like a barrel. Both fix themselves, if you do the four weeks right.

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Waiting Two Days Isn't Neglect And Tubes Aren't Failure

Ear infections come with a decision tree nobody shows dads. Learn it at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday, not at 2 a.m. in an urgent care parking lot.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20266 min

When Everything Stings, Cut Down To Three Products

Most sensitive skin isn't allergic to much. It's reacting to a shelf full of stuff it never needed in the first place.

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BRO Seniors6 min read

Ask Your Doctor to Take Something Off the List

Eleven prescriptions is a decision nobody actually made. A proper medication review is free, it takes one appointment, and you have to ask for it.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

The Sports Physical Is Mostly The Form You Filled Out Wrong

Most of what a preparticipation exam catches comes from the history questions, not the stethoscope, so stop scribbling them in the parking lot.

GuideGroomingDean Shaw23 Sept 20265 min

The Retinoid Goes On Tonight, The Sunscreen Goes On Tomorrow

Two products carry almost all the weight on a forty-something face. Most of the rest of the shelf is expensive lotion with good lighting.

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$The hip fracture playbook, from the ER to your own stairs$

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The hip fracture playbook, from the ER to your own stairs

Surgery inside two days, on your feet the same afternoon, and the questions that decide whether you go home or to a nursing floor.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Do The First Peanut Butter On A Saturday Morning

The advice on allergy foods flipped a decade ago, and feeding a baby his first peanut butter is a job a dad can own from start to finish.

GuideFamilyCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

What to do in the first ninety days after a dementia diagnosis

The paperwork window is open right now, and it closes quietly. Do these things while your parent can still sign a name and mean it.

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Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

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GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

The medications drying your mouth are rotting your teeth

Root decay at the gumline moves fast, it barely hurts until it's serious, and the fix starts with a list of every pill you take.

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GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your Kid's Concussion Is Your Call, Not The Coach's

What a head injury actually looks like on a youth field, what the first 48 hours should be, and the six steps back that nobody hurries.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Migraine keeps a calendar and it looks like your cycle

It's the drop in estrogen that sets it off, not the level, and that one fact explains the bad week every month and the mess of perimenopause.

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20267 min

Salt the Steps Before It Snows

Ice melt that works below 20 degrees, a flu shot built for your age group, and why the mailbox walk is the most dangerous forty feet you own.

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GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Treat The Kid, Not The Number On The Thermometer

What actually matters at 2 a.m. with a hot toddler, the dosing mistakes dads make, and the short list that means you get in the truck.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Family5 min

The pregnancy appointments a husband should actually be at

BRO Seniors6 min

How to come home from the hospital and stay home

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideDadsCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Count The Breaths Before You Call The Nurse Line

A barking cough at 2 a.m. isn't the emergency. The chest, the belly and the breath count tell you what is.

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BRO for Her6 min read

Forty is a scheduling problem before it's a health problem

The screenings that start in your forties, what perimenopause actually does, and how to get taken seriously when you ask.

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What was your first ever job?

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