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Fioliday time
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warmth our bright
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Santa's come a long way from
a reindeer-drawn sleigh! He's dashing
along and picking up speed to
deliver his bundle of goodies to you and
yours, along with our thanks!
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DECORATING THEIR CHRISTMAS TREE are the Beck Children of Hensall. Standing, are Brian, 17,
Mike, 18, and Jeff, 14, who are hemophiliacs. These boys depend on the life-giving blood donated at
Blood Clinics to help them lead normal lives. Assisting them with the tree is their younger brother, Chris
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Christmas Star shine upon us and
lead us an to blessed peace. Grate-
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BLOOD CLINIC CONVENER
Mrs. Larry Baynham is convener
of the Boxing Day Blood Clinic
at the Legion Hall. During the
holiday season more blood is
required than at any other time
of the year. Mrs. Baynham urges
Exeter district citizens to give
the most precious gift of all, the
Gift of Life, by donating their
blood.
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and we'd like
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and your family
at this time, And it
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thank you
for the real pleasure
of serving you.
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Be a blood donor
chance to extend Christmas a
little longer this year and give a
gift so precious it can't be valued
in dollars and cents, yet costs you
nothing?
You can . .if you attend the
Red Cross Blood Clinic on Boxing
Day and give a pint of your blood.
It's the gift of Life.
There are many ways your life-
giving blood may be used, but it
might just be that a component
called cryoprecipitate- from
your fresh frozen plasma will
allow a hemophiliac to lead an
almost normal life.
If you don't know what a
hemophiliac is, any member of
the Donald Beek family in
Hensall can fill you in. They're all
experts on the subject.
They're experts because three
of the boys, Mike 18, Brian 17, and
Jeff 14, are hemophiliacs, or
bleeders, to use laymen ter-
minology.
What is it like to be. a bleeder?
Well, the Beck boys, who have
all been in and out of hospitals
more times than they can
remember, calmly face the fact
that they have a potentially
serious disease and talk about it
in very realistic terms.
Up until five or six years ago,
there was very little known about
how to treat hemophiliacs. Often
lengthy stays in hospital were
necessary where they received
blood transfusions, but now, since
the discovery of the cryopre-
cipitate component in frozen
blood plasma they can usually be
treated as out-patients by
receiving injections of the blood-
clotting factor.
In a normal person, when the
skin is injured and blood escapes,
the blood coagulates into a solid
mass within five or six minutes
and seals the wound, With a
hemophiliac, the blood does not
clot and the person may lose
quantities of blood from even a
trivial wound, or bleed inwardly
from a seemingly harmless bump
or sprain. Therefore, the Beck
brothers cannot take part in
contact sports. Mike twisted his
ankle last September and ended
up on crutches for a month where
a normal person would have been
walking on the same ankle in a
week.
Jeff and Brian say they don't
mind too much about not being
able to play basketball and other
such sports but Mike states, "I
hate it, I'd really like to par-
we most precious gift of all
How would you lice to have the
ticipate, I'm tired of double lunch
hours."
Minor accidents can turn into
harrowing experiences if you're a
bleeder. A friendly police dog
jumped up on Jeff last summer
and pawed his face, That little
incident sent him to War
Memorial Children's Hospital for
four days for 'cryo' injections,
and back to the hospital every
other day for a month before his
nose and lip were completely
healed. During that space of time
he used the clotting-factor from
68 pints of blood.
Having a tooth pulled is a
major operation for a
hemophiliac. To have teeth ex-
tracted recently, both Mike and
Brian had to enter the hospital, a
day before the oral surgery, for
injections to build up their blood
clotting factor. It also meant
being at the hospital around 14
days after the surgery until their
gums were sufficiently healed so
that they could be safely
released.
That trip took 75 units of blood
plasma.
136cause their father is an
United Church minister they've
made several moves and each
time a few problems
arise . . like teachers.
Because the boys appear
normal, some teachers question
their inability to take part in
certain school activities.
"At one school, I had to take a
letter from my doctor to the same
teacher for three years in a row,
It seemed a little much. After
all, I'm the best judge of what I
can and cannot do, says Brian.
Doctors, too, can add to the
difficulty, Mr. and Mrs. Beck
recall distressing experiences
with at least one doctor who just
wasn't with it as far as
hemophiliacs were involved.
Of course, there are the stan-
dard problems of severe nose
bleeds or inward bleeding of the
kidneys.
The boys all wear metal discs
around their necks which state,
"1 Am A Bleeder," which in case
of an accident will let police or
doctors know what kind of people
they are dealing with.
What about girlfriends?
"That's a very important
subject," agrees Brian. "Well,
first, you have to let your
girlfriend in on the whole deal.
You must explain to her what she
should do should you start to
bleed for any reason, caution her
not to panic and help get you to a
doctor, If she panics, I may panic
and this only makes me bleed
more profusely."
Any drugs you can't take?
"Oh Yeah," Mike nods his
head. "Aspirins are a No, No, as
is any other medicine that con-
tains acetylsalecylic, and you'd
be surprised how may ordinary
medicines contain it ... most
cough drops and cold remedies,
for instance. When you get a
headache or a cold you learn to
just sit around and enjoy it," he
says grimly.
Every three months, Mike,
Brian and Jeff go to the hospital
for a thorough check-up with a
hem otologist,a bonespecialist and
a dentist.
One of striking facts about
hemophilia is that it occurs only
in the male and is transmitted
through the mother from her
father. Mrs. Beck says she never
knew her father was a
hemophiliac, but looking back
recalls he did have problems
pertaining to bleeding.
Not all male children pick up
the disease, however, Chris, aged
14 shows no symptoms whatever.
The Becks have no idea how
many units of blood the boys have
used.
Their father says, "We are
eternally grateful to the Red
Cross for supplying our guys'
needs. Before the Red Cross took
over the blood clinics we either
had to buy the blood or have it
donated by friends and
relatives."
Mike, Brian and Jeff are three
good reasons why everyone
should be a blood donor at the
clinic Monday evening.
How about it?
Will you give the Gift of Life
this Christmas?
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Besides helping hemophiliacs a
pint of your life-giving blood
might:
* prevent someone from dying in
surgery, As medical knowledge
advances, operations on the
stomach, lungs, heart and kid-
peys are much more common
and many cannot be performed
safely without blood transfusions,
* assist in the treatment of
someone with Leukemia.
.* help combat infectious
diseases or be used in treating
someone suffering from burns
and shock.
+ + +
Mrs. Elaine Baynham is the
convener of the Monday evening
Blood clinic at the Legion Hall,
which is sponsored by the Legion
ladies' auxiliary. This year the
Exeter Kinsmen and Kinettes are
assisting with the project. •
The clinic will run from 8 p.m.
to 9 p.m.
CHRISTMAS TREE
By FRED ROBINSON
Precious Blood
Big and bushy full of glee,
Thats our beautiful Christmas
Tree
Lights are shining against the
floor
Which reflect from door to door.
From top to bottom there is no
end
Of dangling tinsel a modern trend
So if you want, come on and see
Our beautiful, .beautiful
Christmas tree.
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