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Do you know the actual signs and what to expect with the common cold? What about the timeframe for which the cold should be out of your system?

As anyone who has wanted to visit with, or accompany a friend or family member in the hospital knows, it's been a very difficult few months. Now, some restrictions are being eased.

Maybe it's just that the bats that patrol my neighborhood each night are full from all the mosquitos and other bugs they're scooping up, or they're planning an early Fall sneak attack on me, but despite a fairly large amount of them being around, no one near me has been bitten yet. Other people around the Rockford area haven't been so lucky.

Just got a note from our friend Katryna Kirby at SwedishAmerican Health System, reminding me (and you) that Swedes is offering free life-saving lung scans in November and December. Lung cancer is the second-most-common cancer in both men and women...