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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-04-13, Page 22to meet A Family MOW for bereaved parents Will be .11014;Tueailay, April 19 from 7 to. 9 p.rn.-at Alexandra Marine and General Hospital Occupational Therapy Boom, seeondfinor with. bereavement. counsellor Gorden Lang of - War Memorial Children's Hospital, London. when Margaret Darte of Bereaved Families .of. On- tario spoke at the Goderich Palliative Care Workshop in February, a number of parents expressed an in- terest in forming a "self-help group" similar to the one that exists in Toronto, which is an association of families who have lost a child through death. Support has been offered by both a physician and a volunteer social worker should this group form. To give full benefit to this initial meeting, it has been arranged for Gordon Lang, Bereavement Counsellor from War Memorial Children's Hospital, to con- duct the discussion groups. He has been working on a government grant doing both group and individual bereavement counselling to measure which is more beneficial. Parents. are welcome to bring the brothers and sisters along if they feel they are old enough to benefit. For referral or further in- formation, contact Connie Osborn (524-7184) or the Assistant Director of Nurs- ing (524-8323). Limit is 20 persons. Medicine in metric BY JOAN BURLEY It's hard to break the thinking habits of a lifetime. Why should we anyway? We still have our old scales to weigh ourselves, our old thermometers to take our temperature, and our old tape measures to size ourselves up. But it's a metric world we live in. Ninety-eight percent of the world is now on the metric system or moving into the metric system, and Canada is one of the last countries to convert. Canadian manufac- tured goods can't compete in a world that wants metric. To say "go metric or go broke" is putting it very strongly, but it may not be far from the truth. So, like it or not, it's happening. Labs and hospitals have already converted eventually, doc- tors will too. And sooner or later, the old thermometers will crack, the old scales will break, and the old tape measure will wear out. Your Temperature in Celsius - Learning to read a Celsius thermometer cor- rectly is an essential. Nor- mal body temperature in. Celsius is 37 degrees (37 de- grees C). The danger here is when your temperature is not normal. One degree Celsius is equal to nearly two degrees Fahrenheit. So on a Celsius thermometer, two degrees above normal is a very high temperature. A baby's temperature, taken rectally should be 37.5 degrees C. Your Height in Cen- timetres - Learning to think of height in centimetres is less essential, but very useful, especially for parents of growing children. An average man stands about 180 cm. tall; an average woman, 162 cm. One metre (100 cm) is about the height of a 31/2 year old child. A newborn baby will average about 50 cm. in length. Your Weight in Kilograms - It's important to learn something about your weight in kilograms. If you put on two kg. of .body weight, you've just gained more than you probably think. The average woman (162 cm. tall) should weigh 55 to 67 kg. The average man (180 cm tall) should weigh, from 72 to 80 kg. Taking Your Metric Medicine - Prescriptions or patent medicines which now call for a teaspoon measure- ment may, instead, call for five ml. The two measurements are roughly equivalent. More to Come - Don't be alarmed when you start hearing other metric measurements applied to the health system! Eventually, your visual acuity will be measured that way (6/6 in- stead of 20/20). Your doctor may read your blood pressure in kilopascals. • • • • rr • • M41141,,,EAF HooKEY BROADCAST CONTEST • y9.4 could wino $50 00 Gift Cei dificate each time iMaple Leaf Player scores a goal 44(3P Name: Address:. 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