Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-02-06, Page 10Page 10 - Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday,, February 16, 1994 Comings and goings about local folk you know Jim and Margar�t Errington visited family and( friends in Cambridge over the we,ekend:'They called on Olive Blake at St. Luke's residence, who sends best wishes to her home town friends and inquires as to their well being. Her friend Alice Scott is convalescing at the home of son Allan in Sebringville. Some 70 persons attended the Colborne Township Snowmobile Club' breakfast on February 6 and enjoyed snowmobile rides on the great trails throughout the countryside. Fred and Donna Young visited on the weekend with their daughter Sharon and husband Pastor Don Schieman and granddaughters Al- lison and Juliann in Grimsby. Alma Caldwell and Ruby Pickard of Clinton visited with their Aunt Mrs. Evelyn Errington on Thursday, taking her out for a beautiful after- noon drive. Dungannon Play School held a Valentine Party on February 10 and exchanged Valentines. They made decorated Valentines front red construction paper for their DUNGANNON mothers, each containing their pic- ture which was taken at Halloween. Special treats were enjoyed. Happy Valentine's Day. Best wishes go out. to Wilfred and Marion Austin who celebrated their 36th wedding Anniversary on Tues., -'Feb. 8 and to Joe and Teresa Courtney who celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary on Wed., February 9. Huron Bruce Branch,Canadian Diabetes Association held an executive meeting at the home of Joe and Teresa Courtney on Thurs., Feb. 10. Birthday congratulations go out to Jeff Ireland who celebrated his 22nd birthday on Feb. 9, to Rosalyn Miriam whose 4th birthday was Feb. 11 and to Joe Courtney who. also celebrated on Feb. 11th. The Kingsbridge Knights of Columbus held a Valentine "Cash" Bingo in the parish hall on Sat., Feb. 12 following Saturday evening Mass. Congratulations to all the winners, especially Eugene Frayne, Junior who won the special draw. Lucknow Pee Wee 'A' hockey team defeated the Paisley Pee Wee team three games straight but weren't so lucky playing Chesley as they were beaten three games straighi The .local boys played fine hockey to the delight of all who cheered them on. They nowlook forward to a group playoff round and the Goderich Pee Wee Young Canada Week. St. Joseph's School, Kingsbridge Grades 7 and 8 class hosted a pan- cake breakfast on Sun., Feb. 13 in the parish hall following the 10:30 a.m. Mass. Twenty-eight broomball teams from Central West (our area) Western, Eastern, Central East and South East parts of Ontario took part in the Junior- Broomball Provincial tournament held this past weekend in Lefroy, south of Barrie. Teams included two Pee Wee teams, Bantam, Midget and Juvenile.. Jenny Tucker, Billy Tucker, Greg McLeod, Rick McLeod with chaperons Dawn Tucker and Jason McLeod travelled by Montgomery Bus leaving Lucknow on Fri., Feb. 11 and stayed at the Venture Inn at Barrie. Jenny Tucker played four games on the mixed boys and girls Pee Wee team on Saturday which placed fourth, bringing home a participation ribbon. Billy Tucker and Greg McLeod played five games' on the Midget boys' team which won the Silver Medal, and Rick McLeod played for the boys Bantam team which won the Gold Medal. Goalie Jeff Hackers of Goderich received an award for the most sportsmanlike player. With 15. players on each team they • met and had a fun filled weekend returning home on Sunday evening. Congratulations for a job well done. Marjorie and Wilfred ' entland (returned home from Zep, hills, Florida redently. Parents train child for a dry night's sleep Medical Approaches Bedwetli ng outgrow bedwetting. Research indicates that 10% of children outgrow When the Smiths,first realized Bill bedwetting per year. had a problem, he. was 3 years old. Folk Remedies Now he is»15. "Don't worry, he'll outgrow it, the There are plenty of folk and traditional doctors kept telling them. The last . remedies, but they often do more time had been four years ago• • • barns than good. Although some may But Bill was still a bedwetter. He, appear to work, chances are that would wake up in a dry bed just two .these remedies were tried at the time days a week. Five doctors had tried the child was ready to outgrow the their best. They put Bill through .bedwetting anyway. . many. tests, wrote; .numerous Bill's parents.tried waking or lifting prescriptions, ordered hospital stays • him to take him' to the. washroom, and 'even performed.. surgery. :'before they went to bed. They had Nothing seemed 10 work. • � been. advise.d'that.this worked for "Over the last 15 years, we felt other. children. There was little or no fortunate if the bed was dry tw.o change,.and. when they stopped, the nights in a row," says the boy's • wetting was still the same.» father who asked that their real names not be used. Bill would go to visit someone and spend the night. But he might stay awake the whole time, because he Was.embarrassed and did not want. to wet the b'ed. • .Then; several weeks"ago, the Smiths heard of the Canadian.. Children's Centre who specialized in the treatment of bedwetting and saw • their own son's story being played out. What had hit them. hardest was an earlier article in the newspaper that linked bedwetting to arson. "My son tried to burn down our shed," says the father. "That's when I said I .am tired of hearing 'don't worry he will• outgrow it':.,also I found out bedwetting can be harmful to a child's physical and emotional development." He thought that if bedwetting could be stopped, it was necessary for it to be corrected. • Many •don't out- grow bedwetting Children • don't always stop 'bedwetting says Canadian Children's Centre director,Vincent Fowler. in 20 year be: has successfufl'y treated thousands of bedwetters, and receives a large number of inquiries from adults who still have the problem. • Psychologist Arnold Keller says the worst so called solution, is for the parents to wait until children outgrow the problem. Bedwetting is considered a problem if after six months of being toilet trained during the day, your child is still wetting at night, • Although.the child may eventually learn to hide his feelings from family and friends he cannot hide them from himself. If left untreated for. many months, damage to a.child's self image in these sensitive years becomes rather obvious. • Psychologist Dr, Warren Bailer of the University of California at Los Angeles writes "Evidence accumulated casts doubt that all children Waking •or lifting children to the *Washroom; teaches them' not to hold their urine. The goal is to teach your child to hold his bladder at night, not empty it says Fowler. Bill's parents also tried restricting or reducing the amount of liquids that he drank. This did not • stop the bedwetting. . Surveys by the Ambulatory Pediatric Association•have found that lifting was • the most common response to bedwetting. The authors 'of a University of Toronto Study said that lifting a child probably delayed a cure. They found out Fater that reducing liquids and lifting a child at night can interfere with the. development of a child's bladder, and can cause it to be tiny. - If' children or ,adults have tiny bladders or drink too much, this will not cause them to •wet thebed, they will simply wake up and go to the washroom. The Smiths tried other remedies including offering rewards, scolding, punishment, diapers, alarm, honey. Not only did these ideas not help with Bill's problem, the family could see every attempt ending in a failure for him. Bill's mother knew that toilet training was an important part of her son's emotional development and continuous failure in this area was not good. She did not want anything interfering with his emotional.. development. Fowler notes that the American Academy of Pediatrics established • A, bedwetting. is seldom a medical problem. In one study involving The scientific community has spent 10,000 children, it was found. that many. years researching,•to find a less than 1% had a medical 'cure '.for bedwetting, These •problem. • approaches include drug experiments, I operations, x-rays, shocking devices, v etc. Again most have ended in a failure for the children; with little or no Change. When there ,is change in the bedwetting pattern using these procedures, the bedwetting often resumes when these are no Ipnger administered. • A number of drugs have been given for bedwetting. These/ include Imipramine.(Tofranil),, Ozybutinin (Dipropan), and Desmopressin (DDAVP). Regarding Imipramine, the.standard drug guide for physicians, GoodmarS and. Gillman's The Pharmaceutical wetting. Some of them were, Basis of Therapeutics, states, "It doesn't bother him." • "Enuresis (bedwetting) in children/• "He doesn't mind lying in it." over six years of age has been "He couldn't care less about accepted as a possible use for 'stopping.". .i i Irniprarnine, but such therapy . re does iton purpose." produces only temporary effect's:" "Its his.way of getting attention. Imipramine is quite toxic compared to "If he can be dry some nights, he other drugs. and can cause a can be dry every night if:he tried dangerous blood condition called harder." granulocytopenia.'The Merck ManualIf your child asked: you what he of Diagnosis and Therapy �icould do to "try harder" to stop bed auses and Effects Bedwetting is otten thought to be , caused by an incident in a. child's life, that effects him emotionally. Fowler notes that if such.an incident caused him to loose- his bladder.at night, it should also cause him to loose it during the day. After 20 years .of treating thousands of children.with;a 978/o success rate, bedwetting was »never 'found to be . caused by an emotional problem. The Smiths had received a; lot of misleading information about Bill's recommends that children taking the drug have a blood test every few weeks, . 'Oxybutinin •(Ditropan) reduces sweating, so if your doctor prescribes it,.be sure' that your child is not exposed to a hot environment, which could cause, fatal. heat stroke. Ask your doctor to advise you with the signs of heat stroke and first cid measure for.it, Desmopressin (DDAVP) is administered in the form of 'a nose spray or drops. •According to Dr. Sydney 5. Gellis, editor of Pediatric Notes, "when improvement occurs, Jt is within a few days after starting treatment_ but immediate relapse (return. to bedwetting) on stopping treatment as usual," "The .use of desmopressin in England for enuresis is limited to four weeks because of the lack of data oh its long term use;" Dr. Gellis explains. Since desmopressin tempor9rily lowers the amount of water excreted by the kidneys, drinking more than enough to satisfy thirst can result in water intoxication. 'Send for free information on WHY YOUR CHILD WETS THE BED and HOW TO STOP IT, *All inquiries are confidential. NAME: wetting at night, there is no advice you could'give him, since there is nothing anyone concentrates. on While sleeping. Children that are bedwetters go into very deep sleep ' and cannot respond to the•bladder muscle.. It takes a lot of. patience and understanding to have a child that is a bedwetter. With all of the extra work and laundry, and odor, it can be like having a baby in .diapers for many years. Nobody enjoys sleeping in a puddle but like everyone else children learn to hide their 'inner pain. Chances are children want•to be dry more than their parents want them to be.dry. Three months after contacting the Canadian Children'.s Centre, Bill. stopped wetting his bed. He can now sleep away from home with confidence, not having to worry, about having an accident. • For more information to. find out why your child wets the bed, and how you can stop .it, send in below for free information. ADDRESS: CITY: PHONE'( ) CHILD'S AGE: Mail to: CANADIAN CHILDREN'S CENTRE, 371 King Street, LLondon, Ontario N6B 1S4 1-800-465-0070 PROV.: POSTAL CODE: J Kate's reflection - Think only. the best work only for the best. Expect only the best. Sharon Wurm conducted the Worship Service at Dungannon United Church Sunday morning. February 13. The . Creed "We are not alone" was responded to, by the. congregation. Following the service a pot -luck luncheon was served. Rev. Rick Magie, Supervising Minister, opened the annual meeting with prayer. . Penny- Hodges was appointed Chair Lady and Margaret Errington. recording secretary. Cecil Cranston is newly appointed Clerk of Session; replacing Harold ' Errington, after .12 yearsof faithful service. The Session of the church in Dungannon is composed of three Honorary Elders, Harvey Alton, K.K. Dawson and Helen Dawson. ' Others appointed members of the Session are George Errington, Derk Logtenberg, Penny Hodges, ' Jim Errington, Tom Culbert, Frank Pentland, Cecil Cranston, Tom Dickson and John McKenzie. Board of. Stewards consists of Bob McNeil, Rick Upthegrove,, . Gerald Logtenberg, Barbara Johnston, Ron Durnin, Sally Wright, Bernard Campbell, Brock Hasty, Jim. Pentland and Janet AI -9 ton. ' Church treasurer is Katherine McNee. ' In the evening Rev. R.E. Magic chose "Called to Shed Light in the Darkness" as his topic for the four - point Dungannon Union: com- munion and baptism. service. . Children baptized were Shayna J9ihe, infant daughter of Kevin and Kim. Clark and Christopher David, son of Mark and Lori. Jenkins. Grandparentsand great grandparents attended the ceremony. Dungannon 139th Anniversary Service is Sun., May 1, 1994 at 11 a.m. Sympathy is extended to .the Pentland families in the death of Rhena (Mrs. Benson). Funeral service was held in 'London on Saturday. Spring interment Dungan- non Cemetery. Get well wishes are extended to Lisa. Culbert, 10 year old daughter of Don and Linda Culbert. Lisa is .recovering nicely from an emergen- cy appendectomy in Goderich hospital. Winners at the Dungannon Senior Citizen card • party on Wednesday night were John Harris, Thomas Hill, Aileen T,rommer Rud Teresa Courtney., Figure skaters hold• competition The Lucknow Figure, Skaters held their first annual Interclub Com- petition on Feb. 9. All competitors were in top form. Congratulations to each of the skaters for an excel- lent evening of showmanship. Participating in the Junior flight were: Samantha Mayer, Paula Taylor, Amy Knechtel, Ashley Humphrey; . Charlotte Drennan, Lee Morrison and Janet Cox. The .skaters each did their Junior Preliminary Figures and a Free , Skate solo. Overall winners were: 1) Lee Morrison; 2) Janet Cox; and 3) Paula Taylor. The Seniors Preliminary Figures and Free Skate flight included . Susan Bieman, Corey • Rintoul, Shelley Johnston, Debby Ross, Tasha Mayer and. Melissa Hare. They placed 1) Tasha Mayer; 2)' Debbie Ross; 3) Corey Rintoul. Special thanks to the Evaluators, Bonnie Kay, Jayne Ritchie and Sandra Morrison. Achievement Night is scheduled for Wednesday, March 2 at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.