bronx

Dr. Fenwa Milhouse, or “Dr. Down Below” on TLC, joined Elizabeth Hashagen and Shannon LaNier to talk about embarrassing medical problems and break some stigmas. 

New Jersey

NJ Weather Stories

Weather stories

NJ | Weather

NJFORECAST

Saying, wow. Can you believe it's been around 20 years? It's crazy. It's crazy. I remember when that movie came out. That's nuts. But hey, get in the spirit, right. Christmas is coming. Hanukkah is this week. Isn't that exciting too? So definitely a lot to celebrate in the next coming weeks and days. We have a couple of festive flurries to just kind of compliment that right? I call them rogue flurries kind of coming from wind up clouds. No accumulation expected here in New Jersey, but we are warming up toward the weekend into the fifties. We go Friday and Saturday, but come Sunday, we're, we'll be in the sixties, believe it not. But that comes with stormy weather, Sunday, stormy conditions. Although it's very early in the forecast stages, I want to be transparent with you and let you know that we're watching for some gusty conditions along with downpours and maybe a squall line with thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon and evening. The timing is uncertain. The specific location of these impacts are uncertain and it's something that we're going to work out with the next couple of days. But I think it's important to let you know now that something is coming so that you can plan for it rather than wait until we know every little detail 100%. So, let's talk about today's forecast. A couple of windswept flurries coming through, maybe a rogue Sprinkle or two down toward Monmouth Ocean, Middlesex counties today. That's this afternoon because the temperature is going to be warming up into the forties tonight. It clears out briefly 30 degrees by tomorrow morning, it's cold, but then the clouds come back tomorrow and we'll see some rogue flurries and sprinkles all along the Delaware River up and down the western half of the New Jersey. So just be aware of that for Thursday, temperatures will be in the low forties by the afternoon high, but that's just that moment about three in the afternoon and it then finally clears out into Friday. Friday is a beautiful day, 5051 degrees, uh, the northeast corner of Bergen County, Passaic counties as well as Hudson and Essex County. Definitely looking at temperatures near 45 to 46 degrees. Morristown. Same deal there. Not too bad as the mild weather settles in. We hold on to that mild weather into Saturday too. You can see it's fair thin clouds, high pressure, sunny and mild, but we're going to be watching for this front come Sunday, strong wind and thunderstorms with that front. It's definitely going to knock down temperatures for early next week but could be pretty nasty. On Sunday night.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/b13d3fcf-317d-4d3e-aec8-ed24865f310a/b13d3fcf-317d-4d3e-aec8-ed24865f310a.transcribe

Weather

Brooklyn

BK | Weather

BXFORECAST

Quite the operation they've got over there. Julio. Great. Look at what the post service service has to deal with. You know, what's the saying? Right? Neither rain nor sleet nor snow. That package are going to get it where it needs to go. We don't have any of that in the forecast, but for the mail carriers tomorrow and everybody else to bundle up, I guess. Yeah, the temperatures will be in the mid to upper 30 to start tomorrow and we are seeing some rain and maybe even some festive flakes in the near future. So that's something that we need prepare for as we get through the next couple of days. But 37 degrees mostly cloudy sky that puffer jacket will do you some good and some extra layers and you can grab the tins or the Uggs, some things, they just keep your feet warm because tomorrow's highs really struggle to get to the low forties. This is where we're going by tomorrow afternoon. 4 p.m. feeling like near 32 degrees across the boughs and it gets even colder, waking up on your morning. This is going to be the core of the cold we feel like temperatures will be in the mid twenties. So that's what you need to dress for Thursday morning. And even through the majority of the afternoon, we feel like temperatures will still be in the thirties. It looks like Friday. We have one more cold start to the day and then temperatures really begin to turn around. And we're seeing the fifties back by Friday and even into Saturday, which is going to be the pick of the week. Here's why temperatures will be in the mid fifties. It's gonna feel and look nice to be outside. And we're finally seeing a return of that sunshine that we haven't really been experiencing. So we're also turning the page to Sunday, which is our next day that we're tracking some wet weather. So here's what we know so far, still several days out, we're still fine tuning the timing of the system, but expect some widespread rain wind, some thunderstorms and this can start moving into our area Sunday evening into Monday.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/d4e0bd9e-b49a-4385-a25a-8209ac2b53f0/d4e0bd9e-b49a-4385-a25a-8209ac2b53f0.transcribe

Westchester

WC | Weather

HVFORECAST

For you today. Matt Hammers tell us, but we'll see some festive flakes fly. Yeah. And there could be at any point in the day today. Really Tara and tomorrow, but nothing that's really gonna slow people down or add up. Exactly as we take a look outside right now, still dark and early until we get closer to seven o'clock this morning. And it's going to be overall an ok day. You know, there will be a few flurries around at times. Otherwise it's certainly chilly. The morning temperatures are actually, you'd expect for this time of day, this time of the year, the mid thirties for the most part, 37 in Yonkers, right around 30 in Yorktown Heights. It's a little bit colder just below 30 in New City in 27 in Middletown right now. Live Doppler radar at the moment. Quiet overhead, top left of the screen. Those are some snow showers and flurries. Now, a lot of that activity stays to our west and northwest today, but a few of these flurries will survive the trip into the Hudson, especially late morning into the early part of the afternoon. So just don't be surprised to see a little bit of that. But yeah, it's not going to add up to really anything on the ground at all. As we go throughout midday, temperatures will be above freezing, mostly cloudy skies. Again, a few spotty flurries at times as we go throughout the afternoon. More of the same, it's chilly, a light spotty snow shower at times. Temperatures in the upper thirties as that is happening and even visibility won't be reduced too much, partly cloudy skies this evening. And overnight tonight, it will be colder tonight and early tomorrow morning than it is outside right now with morning temperatures all throughout the Hudson Valley in the twenties. But tomorrow, especially after eight or nine o'clock in the morning and through the early part of the afternoon, we actually have an even better chance to see a light passing snow shower. So highs today, right around 40 it's chilly, bundled up through the morning and into the afternoon. A couple of flurries around nothing significant, partly cloudy cold later on tonight with lows in the twenties into Thursday morning, another day tomorrow where it's chilly and we can have a couple of scattered flurries, sun and clouds on Friday, upper forties, mid FF on Saturday. That is still the pick of the week. Sunday. We are looking at some warm weather but it turns wet and windy, especially for Sunday evening and Sunday night before dry weather returns for really all of next week. Sun and clouds breezy and cool on Monday turning chillier through the rest of next week.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/d0d0d564-acef-4902-bfc0-cb5abe99d81c/d0d0d564-acef-4902-bfc0-cb5abe99d81c.transcribe

Long Island

LI | Weather

LIFORECAST

Three pints should do the job. And maybe next year there'll be a Christmas miracle. Christmas tree industry is pretty well known for feast and famine in terms of supply and demand. So I think things will get better. If you don't feel like cutting your own, you can always buy a pre cut tree. Prices are up, but balsams will run you less than a fur at a big box store. And of course, you can always buy an artificial one and use it year after year happy holidays. Everyone. I'm Janice Lieberman and that's the real deal. I saw a video on Instagram the other day, Sebastian Maniscalco asking what are they charging for Christmas trees by you? It's everywhere, it's going up and you know, depending on what type of tree you want. If you want the larger tree, those Frasier 1st 10 ft and higher. Yeah, those are the difficult ones to get this year. But uh you know, hey, whatever you do, no matter what the tree decorate it with the family. Have fun doing it. Enjoy the holiday season. Mostly cloudy skies today. There will be the threat of a passing rain or snow shower this afternoon and that's more of a nuisance. Most of our day will be dry and it will be cold temperature around 41 degrees for that hyper local high. And here's the other issue that northerly wind. Yeah, that's gonna make, it feels like temperatures, well, generally in the twenties and thirties. So that's what you need to dress for going throughout the day. Plus with all the clouds around and a little bit of moisture, it has a chill to the air, some snow showers and flurry north and west. And every now and then this afternoon, there may be one or two quick little rain, snow showers or flurry or Sprinkle moving on over Long Island. Take a look at this at around +343 45 there's a cold air temperatures around 38 to 39 degrees and there's that little stray flurry, snow shower, Sprinkle rain shower coming our way. Much more of a nuisance. A festive flake or two coming on through and that threat is with us through about 8 p.m. Then overnight skies clear tomorrow morning, lows are in the twenties to around 30. It's cold Thursday morning and then during the day on Thursday can't rule out once again, a quick little snow shower or a rain shower into Thursday afternoon for the start of Hanukkah. As we go towards sundown on Thursday, it's going to be cold. Temperatures are going to be in the thirties and towards sunset, a slight chance of a quick rain or snow shower and then we're dry overnight, Thursday into Friday. And by Friday afternoon we finally warm up. Now over the weekend, this is going to impact some of your plans and also will impact some of those holiday decorations because there's a threat of heavy rain, Sunday, late afternoon, Sunday evening and early Monday morning. And as the cold front approaches Long Island strong winds, there's a potential of winds, 40 to 50 MPH coming our way late Sunday afternoon through Sunday evening. So we'll have to watch this very closely and the impacts on Long Island highs today and in the low forties, lots of clouds, it's cold chance of that passing rain or snow shower, twenties for tonight. And we do have a warm up after the cold starts of Hanukkah fifties. Friday, Saturday, stormy weather near 60 on Sunday. Oh.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/6784791a-f210-4c9f-a275-b49bc3b5856f/6784791a-f210-4c9f-a275-b49bc3b5856f.transcribe

Hudson Valley

HV | Weather

Bronx

BX | Weather

Connecticut

CT | Weather

CTFORECAST

And we don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but it sounds like this weekend, at least Saturday would be a great day to do that. Yeah, definitely better than Sunday. Sunday. We got a lot of rain on Tampa. I'm liking Saturday out and, and take care of those errands. If you want to pick up that tree, it's gonna do. We're gonna be looking at numbers a lot better than what we're dealing with for today. 41 is the forecast at high. You get a lot of today. We're not gonna get out of the thirties very much feeling like winter, which is 15 more days away. We bring it in December 21st this year we work our way into the mid part of this month. And yeah, I know we're, we're, we're, we're gonna start to cruise these next couple of weeks, wrapping up 2023. It's just gonna go lightning speed as you push forward through the rest of this morning. Again, we're working with some cloud cover, chance for a few flakes late morning and then as we head into this afternoon, uh, still won't rule out a chance for flakes. If we're really watching back out across the lower Hudson Valley, some of them could seep into our neck of the woods, but still, we're not worried about any accumulation or anything like that. Just putting it out there. Keep that in mind as you are out about heading into tonight, we're gonna really look at the clear skies and we're gonna see colder numbers into your tomorrow. It, same set up to what we had last week. Right Wednesday night into your Thursday, we dealt with the coldest here. Thursday is gonna be the coldest day on tap. Numbers not making it out of the thirties, chance for a few more flakes. But again, nothing to worry about too, too much as we head into your Friday. Friday morning is gonna be a chilly start, but we bounce back as we head into your Friday afternoon again. Feel like numbers for Thursday tomorrow morning. We'll be in the teens for areas up north. We're talking twenties for areas south of 84. And then as we head into your tomorrow afternoon, we really aren't gonna feel anything better out of the twenties. So we definitely want to bundle up another shot of some cold air will work with us for your tomorrow. Make sure you got your winter gear prepared Saturday. Again, it's gonna be the pick of the week as we work our way into the first half of the week and we're staying dry. Maybe some sunshine. One thing's for sure, moderate temperatures well into the fifties. So it isn't gonna feel old, too bad. First half of your Sunday looks good. Then we're watching a storm really bringing in some heavy rain which will impact your Sunday afternoon into your Sunday evening. Where for right now, that's when we're looking forward to be its worst along with some strong gusty damaging winds, potentially Sunday night into your Monday as well. Other than that, we're still gonna hold on to mild weather into the first part of your week before we start to trend cooler heading into the tail end of next Becky John.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/24cafac7-94ae-47ea-828e-c685a2029bc2/24cafac7-94ae-47ea-828e-c685a2029bc2.transcribe

58BeWellDrDownBelowInterview_2023-05-08-09-32-47

be Well: ‘Dr. Down Below’ joins the show to break down some stigmas and taboo topics

58BeWellDrDownbelowNEWVIDEO_2023-05-08-09-58-45

For our first guest today. No topic is two taboos. She is Doctor Millhouse, the ceo of down there urology and you might know her from her popular show on T L C. Doctor down below. She is a board certified, a fellowship trained urologist and sexual medicine specialist list. And she's here to tell us that really, there's no shame in, in talking about these topics. So, I mean, it's just lovely that we're even having this conversation because a lot of people, you know, it's your private part. So you don't share what's going on and people really need to have these conversations. Absolutely. I, I love that this is demystifying this part of the body de stigmatizing this part of the body because a lot of things that go on here, no one knows what to do. No one shares that even with their closest loved ones. Um So yeah, thanks for having me on the show today. Yeah. Ok. So start off by telling us what are some of the most common issues you see with your patients? Down below, down below. Yeah. So leaky bladders are very common. Um, lumps and bumps down below are pretty common um sexual complaints, not being able to get it up or not being able to get aroused or having issues with that department are also very common in this area. So now how do you treat someone like that? Is there a lot of surgeries? Are there medic? Like how does that work? A little bit of both? So a lot of the things that we do in neurology tend to have potentially both like medical medicine type options and potential surgical options. So typically we start with like the most conservative things, first, behavioral changes, medicines, that sort of stuff, maybe physical therapy and then introduce surgery. Um, when necessary, a few of the stuff we have are just blatantly are surgical things like, hey, this needs to be taken out or this needs to be, uh, rearranged or reconstructed. Yeah. Well, I know when people have issues down there, it's a lot of times mostly embarrassing. So a lot of people probably just avoid it altogether and say I'm not gonna go to the doctor. So what do you say to those people who are a little intimidated in general? It's understandable. Like this is a very private part of our body. Things that happen here tend to be more embarrassing. And so it's understandable. I think I would tell patients too. They, people, two things, one is that you're not alone. All these are often things that a lot of us go through, but we don't talk about, we hide and we think we're the only ones going through them. In reality. We, many of us go through these things. Number two, you have options to treat it. A lot of times people think, well, they probably can't do anything about it anyway. And you'll be surprised at how many tools we have in our toolbox to actually help you live better, to have a better quality of life and to feel better about yourself. Now, I know before the show you had a huge or you have a huge social media following what, what started that? Um the pandemic and Tik Tok that. No, but you know, I looked around, I'm on social media, I use social media for entertainment and, you know, a little bit for information gathering. And I looked around and I said, OK, well, there really isn't really that many people doing what I do and I really love what I do and I recognize the power of me as a black woman in this specialty that is, you know, primarily male dominated. And so I said, you know what I should be out there talking about the, the specialty educating because a lot of people have a lot of misconceptions and misinformation and lack of knowledge. Um And so I started creating entertaining videos as you guys saw um that also educated and I think um it connected with people, you know, it made number one, this doctor, you know, not be so intimidating and oh going to the doctor, not feel so intimidating. And then it empowered people with some bit of information that they could use when they went to go see whomever they saw. And that's a good point because you are giving them information, you are educating them and a lot of young people especially are drawn to doctors on Tik Tok and you say, oh, I'm gonna go look it up on Tik Tok and get some advice. What is your avi? Well, first, why do you think they're so drawn to tiktok for a doctor? Advice? And what's your advice for those people? Because you just can't trust everybody when I tell my kids, you can't trust everybody you see giving me information online. Yeah, I mean, in general, you know, take what you get in through social media, through online with a little bit of understanding that you don't 100% know their credentials. I mean, you can obviously look up a lot of these people, you can look me up and see my credentials for instance. And so you do wanna hopefully seek out information from people who have the credentials to speak on what they're speaking about. Number one, um I think the reason why people use social media or tiktok or whatever is because it's entertaining, it's speaking to them in that, in their language and people wanna know, I mean, we, we um uh as humans want to know we are interested in things and what better way that speaks to our language that's entertaining than these avenues. I use youtube, you know, I use youtube to teach me how to do, to like everything. Like you literally can learn how to do anything you want on youtube. And tiktok is like becoming like the this new younger generations youtube to like learn things. So for everyone who wants to watch the show, what is it going to be like? Because I would think there's a lot of blurring or no. So, yeah, I like, I, I honestly wish they would show it all because it's scientific. It's not, you know, pornography, it's scientific. But yes, we have to blur out, you know, the private areas, but you can still, like, learn a ton about what's going on. You can connect to these stories that make, you know, make all of this more, um, uh, humanized. Um, and you can probably learn something about your own body through, through, uh, watching. It's very interesting. Our thanks to Doctor Mill Ceo at down there urology for joining us here on the.

https://vod.chdrstatic.com/transcode/ef04bde0-3535-4bda-9f4d-a2d3ae661362/ef04bde0-3535-4bda-9f4d-a2d3ae661362.transcribe