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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2002-10-09, Page 10$-T141 HURON UPOSITO11, October 311 5001 THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION •4• i •. • , Ate. Or 1! We Remember —Together — ANNUAL CHURCH PARADE will proceed to the St. James Roman Catholic Church for service at 11:00 a.m. on SUNDAY! NOVEMBER 4th POPPY DAY CANVAS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5 at 6 PM IN SEAFORTH & DISTRICT We encourage and appreciate the support of Legion members in carrying on the canvas SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11 PARADE and SERVICE • 10:30 AM • Puede to Cenotaph from Legion 11:00 AM • %tritest Cenotaph Following the service, the parade will return to the Le (n Hall The Support of the Public For These Annual Events Will Be Appreciated SEAFORTH BRANCH db 156 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION RICK FORTUNE • EVA BROWN Poppy Chairman President News Laughter, self-awareness are best stress busters, Huron women told By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Staff With the terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11 and the anthrax scares of bioterrorism that have. followed, people are filled with stress and forgetting how to laugh, stress consultant Sharron Stasuik told about 200 women at Seaforth's Agriplex last Wednesday. But, laughter soon filled the hall when Stasuik began her presentation filled with observations about stress in everyday life and pointers about how to live with stress. "They say a man without stress is dead so I want to learn how to love it," she said. Sponsored by the Huron County Health Unit and Take Heart Huron, the evening was called, "Heart Healthy Living for Women on the Go" and included a panel presentation on women's issues before Stasuik's talk. Sharron Armed with a stack of headlines from various newspapers and magazines, Stasuik showed how the media is bombarding readers with information about stress. She held up articles dealing with animals and even trees experiencing stress. 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How would you like to stand there nude until April or May?" she said. She said articles on stressed -out pigs and chickens that can't cope help to put human stress into perspective. And, she pointed out how people seem much more willing to spend money to alleviate their pets' stress than their own, adding that she was talked into buying anti -stress food for her dog by her veterinarian. "I was going to leave behind big city stress and buy a farm until I learned about high stress in farmers. So, then I thought I'd escape to the wilderness but I found out there will be stress wherever I live,” she said. Stasuik recommended creating a strategy to cope with stress at a time when you are not feeling stressed out. "A person under stress is like a drowning person who will grab anything to save her life so set out a course of action when you're calm and feel under control," she said. She said stress management is big business and the market provides everything from relaxation tapes to lotion to vitamins to cope with stress. The trick, she said, is discovering yourself and what techniques to reduce stress work for you. And using those techniques to destress is important before stress begins to affect you physically. "During the third stage of stress. you start to react physically and your heart starts beating hard, your vocal chords constrict, your knees knock and you have butterflies in your tummy. Then, physical things can start like chronic back pain, ulcers, .heart attack, stroke and they'v.e even been blaming stress in cancer for the past 20 years," she said. For the past 20 years, Stasuik has used self- hypnosis for 20 minutes every day and said getting into a state of relaxation for a short time provides the equivalent of eight more hours of sleep. "Giving yourself time to use the relaxation response lets yourself slow down a little," she said. She also recommended exercise and a good diet but added that the exercise should be something you enjoy. "I work with a lot .of people who belong to 'the club' but that's not for me. If you do something you want to do, you'll do it with gusto," she said. Stasuik said people can also avoid mental and emotional stress by communicating with other people to let them know who you are and how you operate most successfully. As well, she recommended finding ways to avoid time crunches. "As women, we set our goals and if we can't reach them, we claw to reach them. For anyone else, we modify them but not for ourselves," she said. Stasuik avoids the time crunch at Christmas now by having all her gifts bought and wrapped by August so that she can enjoy the season in December. "We can't do things the way we've always done them because things are always changing. The survivor technique is having the ability to change," she said. She added that women have to choose how accessible they will be to others, especially with all the communication technology available today. "It's my choice not to own a cell phone. I am not a machine that goes 24 - seven. I turn off as well sometimes," she said. `Repatriation' makes hospital partnership prepared for changes at London hospitals By Susan Hundertmark Expositor Staff The Huron -Perth Hospital Partnership's year-long talks with London hospitals about "repatriating" or offering more health services locally has made local hospitals more prepared than most for the London Health Sciences Centre's recent decision to phase out 18 health services. "We're the farthest advanced in repatriation. We've anticipated and been working for some time on it so we weren't hit as much as some communities by the news," says Dr. Stan Brown, vice president of medical affairs for the Huron -Perth partnership. Repatriation will mean bringing primary and secondary medical services back to Huron -Perth such as birth and gall bladder surgery. "We have the capability of doing those procedures in Huron - Perth. It's good for local patients and it eases pressure on London," he says. But, because most of the 18 phased -out services are "low volume" procedures such as pediatric cardiac surgery and heart. lung and bowel transplants, Brown says "a low number" of Huron -Perth patients will be affected. "I don't see it as a major problem but it will be a disadvantage to people who need the highly -specialized services that are being phased out," he says. Brown says the reasons for the London Health Sciences Centre phasing out the 18 services are not cost but safety. He says a procedure like pediatric cardiac surgery needs to be done 150 times a year to maintain competency in the medical staff involved. In London, those surgeries were done 120 times last year while they were done over 200 times last year in Toronto. "Those specialized services are never going to be offered in Huron -Perth," he says. Brown says the phase-out period at the London Health Sciences Centre is one to three years and Huron -Perth has not been informed yet about where patients will need to go for the phased -out services. "The fallout is unknown at this point but we're not going to see an immediate major shift of patients," he says. "We'll be keeping in close contact with London and they'll keep us up-to- date."