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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1996-06-12, Page 7Thank you(Buyers 1996 Hensall Calf Sale & Show Supporters Buyers of top calf: Peter Hatzis of Better Beef Nought the Grand champion calf for $2.40/lb. Owner Suzanne Coleman. Ron O'Brien of Re/Max Nought Greg Hendricks Reserve Champion calf for $2.00/Ib. The Hensall Calf Club wish to express their appreciation to all the buyers who attended the Hensall South Huron Calf Club sale Saturday afternoon and who. by Ihcirhrisk bidding. made the .how a success. It is support such as this which enables the committee uo yarn on .with the program among the young people in our cumrnLam . and we know everyone shares a pride in their accomplishmc• i, Thank you Hcnsall Livestock Ltd. for the use of them facilities and supplies. Auctioneer Larry Gardiner and Brad Mouseau. tiI.C. Denis Marten and Judges Les Charlton. Kattc Crossan and Roeszlcr and all the other truckers for taking the caters alter the sale, . Thank you to all the buyers. helpers. donator; of trophies. money. articles and rosettes. Your tremendous support and generosity is greatly appreciated by the Hensall Calf Club. 1996 Hensel! Calf Club Buyers Grand Champion + 5 - Better Beef. Reserve Champion - Ron O'Brien. Re/Mai Hcnsall Co-op 3 Brussels Livestock 7 Howell Transport 2 Huron Motor Products I Hay Mutual Insurance' I i'alhotvillc Livestock -rowscnd Tire I. Regency Packers I Ron O'Brien Farms Ltd.1 McKillop Mutual I Haugh Tire I Tuckcrsmith Communications Co-op 1 Corsetti Meats 2 Metzger Meats 2 Gerald Hayicr I Veals Meal Market 5 Huron Tractor 1 Hensall Can le Company 2 1 e'c R Trucking 1 Darling hood r Sills Hardware 1 Clarke Bros 2 Bill Hope I - Ncw L1le Mills I Hurry Winters Euler 1 Canac Kitchens I Ashur Dodge Chrysler 1 Zurich Meats 1 A & H TGA Exeter 1 Homuth, Taylor & Partners Monsanto 1 Wayne O'Brien 1 Norwich Packers I Becker Farm Equipment/Metzger Meats 1 • •...•............••• Feature THE HURON EXPOSITOR, Jun• 12, 19911-7 Home dialysis makes life easier BY DAVID SCOTT Expositor Editor "Florence" has helped make Mary McFadden's life a lot easier. That's.the nickname she gave her home kidney-dialy- sis'machine• which works works on cleansing her bl(xxl while she sleeps. That's a lot easier than her previous schedule last year of.driving to St. Joseph's Health Centre in London three times a week through rain, snow or sun for four-hour treatments. Don and Sheila (nee McFadden) Morton, of Seaforth, helped with the fre- quent driving, as well as McFAdden's : daughter Brenda, of Byron and son Bruce, of Grand Bend. The new machine was given to her by St. Joseph's in December. Both Mary and her husband Ralph had to take afour-day course on operating the device: "Dr. Woldnik said i wouldn't have -lasted without it," said the energetic native of Corpus Christi, Texas. "What peritoneal dialysis has done for Mary is literally turned her Iifc right around. She was quite ill for about a year. Now she's leading a functional Iifc." said Dr. Mark Woldnik, Chicf Medical Officer, Seaforth Community Hospital Woldnik •said the process has improved life for those in need of dialysis in smaller communities. • "it's a successful program. The cost is nothing compared to regular dialysis (in a hos-, pital). It's not an expensive procedure with thc new tech_ •oology. People sometimes sec kidney failure as a fermi - nal illness. It's not. It's cur- able." The. main three reasons for kidney failure and dialysis treatment arc diabetes, vascu- lar disease and hypertension. McFadden suffers from vas- cular disease, although two of her children are diabetic. If there are any problems with the machine, Mary just phones St. Joseph's any time Of the day or night. if, by chance, she rolls over while sleeping and stops or slows the flow in the tube, the com- puter -run machine will beep. "It's worked out really well," she says. Dr. Cordy, head of dialysis for St. Joseph's was responsi- ble for getting Mary the portable machine. Supplies for it are delivered once a month. Aside from the machine. a device for taking blood pressure and a new set of scales were given to Mary for thc frequent self-monitor- ing required. As well, a visiting nurse from the VON stops in twice a week to administer a shot of APO to build up hemoglo- bin in Mary's blood. She goes to the hospital once a month for a complete blood analysis. "You have to be really care- ful. You have to keep your hands clean and wear a mask (when using the machine)." PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT VON VISIT - Visiting VON nurse Diana Steep, right, takes Mary McFadden's blood pres- sure in her home recently. Thenurse stops in twice a week to monitor blood pressure and administer a needle to help build up hemoglobin in Mary's blood. "It gives me more freedom. I can go all day long." -she says. Hcr husband helps -with the regular routine. "I don't know how a person could do it by herself," says Ralph. When .Mary uses the machine; she hooks a tube into an attachment she has •on - her stomach.. The tube is attached from 9:30 or 10 at night until the morning. eight hours Tater. During that time; 2.000'ml of dialysis solution is pumped into Mary's abdominal cavity. • ."Then .when f get off this machine. 1'm. full in the morning. At 11 am. they have a thing. called .a Freedom Bag that you can empty your stomach into. I'm without fluids in my stomach from 11 am until -t pm. i have to fill up at -f pm. 2.000 ml'again. 1 .hold that until 9:30 or 10. And then Fm on the machine." - - . Mary says once she's on the dialysis deice. she's there for the night. "If the house burns up. I have to take the machine and go out the window." Thankfully she hasn't expe- rienced a situation when there's a had electrical storm and the power goes out. There is no battery pack for the machine. "They say 1 can go for two days without it. .The hospital is not excited about it." says Mary. • Presently. to the I'nowledge of -the VON and Seaforth Community - Hospital, McFadden is the only person in the Seaforth area on the home peritoneal dialysis machine. In Goderich, a home hcrnodialysis machine Audit fee to be reduced • Seaforth and its auditors. Deloitte & louche. are aim- ing to reduce the town's annual audit fee by 25 per cent over three years, from $12,285 in 1995 to a targeted $9,200 in 1998. This will require a change in procedures, for instance the field work for audits of the lire 'department, business improvement association and arena being carried out by municipal staff. under super- vision of the auditors. Dave (iurnham oI' Deloitte & Touche officially presented' thc•town's 1995 financial statements at last week's meeting. Nothing was amiss- accord- ing to the auditors. School fire deliberately set after automatic sensors trig- gered the alarms, which sounded at 3:39 p.m. Firefighters arrived shortly to clear the second floor hall- way of smoke and ensure the blaze would not re -ignite. Somebody deliberately set a fire in a student locker at the Exeter high school just after classes ended for the day on May 29. Staff at the school cut off the lock and doused the flames with extinguishers • St. Anne's students. to clean up studies course. "We want them to learn that in order io receive, they have to give," says staff organizer Jayne Walsh. Students at St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School will he cleaning up around Clinton Friday in a first-ever community service day, part of the students' religious • PHOTO BY DAVID SCOTT MARY & FLORENCE - Mary McFadden nicknamed her dial- ysis machine "Florence" after Florence Nightingale and has credited the machine for helping her to lead a normal life. is shared -by a few dialysis patients. According to a story that ran in the Goderich Signa! -Star late last year on home dialysis. there are between 50 and 75 people in Huron County who'require dialysis treatment. Although home dialysis is beneficial and practical to many. it•s still not a possihlc option for some.:Another treatment for kidney failure is a kidney transplant when a healthy kidney from an appropriate donor is avail- abl.e. Not everybody is an appropriate candidate for a transplant. however. and not all transplants are successful. But "Florence" sure has made life better for Mary McFadden. - "It gives me more freedom. I can go all day long. sas Haefling Chartered Accountant Bas Hulling, C.A., P. Ag. Associate: Barry Boyd Providing a full range of accounting. computer. tax. and financial consufting services to meet the needs of Business and Farmers Ph: 348-8412 - 11 Victoria St. Mitchell - Fax: 348-4300 Remember Dad on June 16th with a gift basket filled with all his • favourite treats. 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