INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Most anal fissures heal on their own with 4 to 6 weeks. If your anal fissures does not heal within this timeframe, and does not seem to improve with use of medication, your doctor might recommend surgery. The standard surgery to treat an anal fissures involves cutting a portion of the sphincter muscle. This helps relax the bowels, helping the fissure heal. Surgery has a high success rate, with over 90% of fissures clearing up after the procedure. Your doctor will talk to you about how to prepare for your surgery. Follow all her instructions and do not hesitate to ask any questions if something confuses you. You will probably be asked not to eat or drink anything after midnight the day before your surgery. Your doctor will tell you what medications you should and should not take prior to the operation, including any herbal supplements or over the counter sleep aids. Bowel prep is common in anal fissure surgery. You may be given an enema or laxatives prior to the operation. Anal fissure surgery is a same day procedure. This means, assuming there are no complications, you will leave the hospital the same day you had the procedure done. Your doctor will give you instructions on how to recover from the operation. Normal activity can be resumed shortly after surgery, but it should be gradual. Make sure you walk the night after surgery, as this lessens the risk of blood clots, which can be potentially life threatening. Depending on the type of surgery, you should not return to work for 1 to 4 weeks. Avoid driving until you're done taking pain medications. Your surgery will leave a wound in the rectal area that needs treatment. Keep the wound clean and dry and take sitz baths baths 3 times a day. Bloody drainage will occur for a few days following the surgery, so the wound should be sealed with gauze.

SUMMARY: Know why surgery might be needed. Prepare for your surgery. Recover from surgery.

In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Letting your friend know that, while you love your friendship, this really hurts your feelings, makes you angry, makes you feel disrespected. If you just accept it without expressing displeasure, this clueless friend may continue this behavior indefinitely. If you express your feelings about it, and there is no apology and nothing ever changes, at least you will have clarity - your feelings are not as important as whatever it is s/he is doing. Being late might mean the person was in flow, needs in between time, or is afraid to ask for space. Say, "I've noticed that time is a challenge for you." Then wait and listen with an open mind. Replay what they said to you in a gentle way, using their words. For example: "Okay. So you went to work, got involved, and stayed till the project finished. Is this right?" Listen. Then ask, "Did you really want to be on time?" Listen. If yes, "If you could be on time how would you do that?" Listen. Make agreement. "Okay. In fairness to you and me, let's agree that you pay for your own (ticket, etc.). If you are on time, we go together. If you choose or something comes up to make you late, you will understand that I may not wait and you are on your own time." Note: If you are married or in a committed relationship, ask how you can support the person.
Summary: Express your anger or frustration about it. Ask this person what is really behind being late.

If you think your iPod Touch may have been lost or stolen and you don't have Find My iPod, you should change your Apple ID password immediately. This will protect the data in your iCloud account and Apple Pay. You can change your Apple ID password at appleid.apple.com/. Besides changing your Apple ID password, you should change any other passwords for services you accessed from the iPod. This could include Facebook, Twitter, your bank, email, or anything else you may have logged into from the iPod. Without Find My iPod enabled, there is no way to track your iPod. To find a lost iPod without Find My iPod, you'll have to find it the old-fashioned way. Think back to the last place you remember using it and try to track it down there. Make sure to look for places it could have fallen into, such as cracks between the couch cushions or between car seats. If you're sure your iPod has been stolen, you can contact your local police department to report it stolen. You'll likely need to give your iPod's serial number, which you can find on the box or at supportprofile.apple.com if you registered your iPod with your Apple ID.
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One-sentence summary -- Change your Apple ID password. Change your other important passwords. Retrace your steps. Report the iPod stolen.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Washing your pet will kill the fleas that may be living on it. Prepare your pet for the bath by applying the flea soap near the pet's ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and butt. When fleas feel water, they immediately look for safe places on the pet to hide out, such as around the neck, on the head, and near the anus. Do this before you get the pet wet. There may be a host of other fleas in various stages of their life cycle waiting to hop onto your pet, so be sure to use this method with other preventative measures, such as vacuuming, borate mixes, and cedar chips. and let the solution stand for at least 10 minutes. After you've applied the soap to the pet's vulnerable areas, get the pet wet and lather its whole body up. Once the 10 minutes have passed, wash all of the soap out of the pet's fur with warm water. Then, once the pet is dry, comb out the dead fleas. Take a shower immediately after washing your pet because some flea shampoos can cause irritation when left on human skin for prolonged periods of time. Flea products, such as Advantage or Frontline, are spot-treatments that are applied to pets monthly. Usually, these spot-treatments are dropped directly onto the skin of your pet, usually between the shoulder blades and at several spots down the spine. The treatment will then work its way through the skin (integumentary system). You can purchase pet-friendly flea products at your local pet store. You can use flea products in conjunction with a fine-toothed flea comb. Use a flea comb to pull off individual fleas from the pet's fur. This will prevent flea adaption to the treatments. You may find that some of the standard flea treatments are ineffective because the local flea population has adapted to a particular treatment (including the chemicals in flea collars). In this case, switch among other treatments and use an insect growth regulator (IGR) such as Nylar. For example, if a flea collar isn't working, try scrubbing your pet with flea powder. Your veterinarian will sell oral tablets that you can give your pet. These tablets attack the flea's nervous system via the bloodstream and tissue of your dog or cat. While they kill all the fleas feeding on your pet, they do not prevent fleas. The use of an IGR will not allow propagation of succeeding generations and will prevent, in large measure, fleas adapting to the treatments. Flea tablets are given orally and take effect within several hours. Flea tablets kill off all of the fleas on an animal within about 60 minutes. However, the tablets are not preventative and will not make your pet immune to becoming infested with fleas a second time. Once the tablet has killed off the fleas, wash the animal to rid it of the dying fleas if you see the animal scratching. Some cats may become hyperactive, vocalize more, or show panting when given flea tablets. If this happens, try cutting the recommended dose, but you may have to discontinue use of tablets with sensitive cats. Since fleas feed on the blood of animals, you can treat fleas by manipulating what your pet eats. For example, mix vinegar into dogs' water. Mix a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar into the dog's water bowl, or bathe the animal using water and vinegar. Don't try this with cats, as their pH is much more sensitive than dogs'.

SUMMARY:
Wash your pet every day with flea soap and water. Work in the soap Use a flea product on your cat or dog. Rotate types of treatments if the first is ineffective. Administer a flea tablet orally to rid your pet of a flea infestation quickly. Add deterrents to the pet's meal.