HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1989-09-05, Page 2Peg - The Wingham Advence-Times±, Sept. 8.1989
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Editor's Note; In what Is to
become a regular feature in this
newspaper, Welcome Wagon hest-
eis Christina Yake has provided us
with the names of newcomers to
our town. If you meet any of these
people, make them feel welcome:
—Jean and Al Huntley have
moved to 149 Catherine Street from
Grand Bend. They have six grown
children;
—Jane and John Robertson now
reside at 447 Highland Drive. They
come to Wingham from Kincardine
and have a seven-year-old daugh-
ter;
—Deb and Frank Krebs have
moved to 404 Highland Drive from
Kitchener./They have two children,
aged five and eight;
—Mildred Holmes of Elmira now
is living at 32 Bristol Terrace. She
has a 16 -year-old daughter;
—Betty Dreaddy, formerly of
Clinton, now is residing at 45
Alfred Street;
—Tracey MacBride of C , has
moved to 13 Bristol Terrace;
—Christine Holden has moved to
40 Bristol Terrace from Walkerton.
She has three children, aged two,
five and seven years;
—Charles and Crystal Kalish,
formerly of Wroxeter, have moved
to 320 Josepl ine Street;
—Greg h )rton now resides at
127 Patrick Street. Mr. Horton
comes to Wingham from London;
—Donna Woods, formerly of Fer-
gus, is living at 11 John Street East;
—Liz and Alvin Moore, formerly
of Belgrave, have moved to 357
Carling Terrace: They have two
child/rein, aged two and four and;
—Irene and Wayne Tessier now
are residing at 69 Bristol Terrace..
The Tessiers are from Schreiber and
have two children, aged 12 and
Man will appear
in court Oct. 5
A Wingham-area man has been
charged under the Criminal Code
for failing to provide suitable food,
water, shelter and care for 31 dogs,
says a spokesman for the Kitchener -
Waterloo branch of the Ontario
Humane Society
Donald MacAdam, 60, of RR 2,
Wingham will appear in court Oct.
5 at Walkerton to answer to the
charges.
Correction
A report that appeared in the
Aug. 22 edition the newspaper may
have left the impression that resi-
dents of Turnberry Estates are not
sorting their garbage for the town-
ship landfill site, but they are.
We apologize for any confusion
this may have caused.
tl
For today's highly mobile fami-
lies, transportation consumes 13
per cent of the family budget. In the
days of the first survey, before air
travel and auto ownership both
became commonplace, just 5.5 per
cent of family spending went
towards transportation.
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1 ERRY'S TEAM MEMBER—Little Aimee 'Leith/flan, daughter Of Waneeta and Allari'Leislmian ot
Morris Township, is this year's Terry's Team member for Wingham's second Ibrry Fox Run 'Team
members are cancer patients whose disease is in remission.
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day, a Turnberry Wow•l'is4
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earn member Symboli2
the dream of Terry Fox
By Margaret Stapleton
When participants in this year's
Terry Fox Run in Wingham start off
on their 10 -kilometre trek on Sept.
17, they will be led by a tiny child
who symbolizes Terry Fox's dream
that cancer can be beaten.
Aimee Leishman, the two -and -
one -half -year-old daughter of
Waneeta and AllanLeishman of
•Belgrave, has been chosen as Wing -
ham's 1989 Terry's Team member,
someone whose cancer is in remis-
sion. •
For linfigo,-,parents, the deei *pn,
to olost.*.t._74*ugio*,,$6::poor,...
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Mrs.' says they owe
child's life to the miracles of m
ern medicine and the knowledge �f
their London doctors.
The Terry Fox Run raises millions
of, dollars each year to conduct the
necessary research for cancer drugs,
treatments and even cures.
Today, Aimee Leishman is a
happy, curious child. She is rather
small for her age and ifs hearing
impaired, but those are the only
two reminders of the valiant fight
that marked her early life. '
Aimee was born with a lump on
her right buttock at the baee of the
spine. The doctors told Mrs. Leish-
man it was a embryol sarcoma_and
removed it when the baby was
three months old.
"We asked ourselves, 'Where
is the justice in this?' and
found there is none"
The Ininp was benign and Aimee
was fire for a thatith after she
returned home. But then she started
to go downhill — not eating and
extremely lethargic, Mrs. Leishman
was worried, but doctors could find
nothing wrong with the child.
One morning, Mrs. Leishman
found her daughter with her knees
drawn to her chest in pain and
moaning. Aimee was admitted to
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hospital- and when her condition especially other children, in case
deteriorated the next day, she was Aimee WOuld pick up a bug that
hurriedly sent to London by ambu- would play havoc with her immure
'lance. system.
Mrs. Leishman stayed close to The isolation was hard. on the
Aimee during those uncertain days. entire family, but particularly hard
When they arrived atthe hospital, on brother Jeremy, who was then
it was found that the tumor had just over two years•old. In fact, the
grown back, almost overnight. A
body scan indicated that a tumor
was blocking the little girl's bowels
and kidneys — no wonder she had
been in such pain.
family stayed at home the Christ -
Inas of 1987, for fear that Aimee
would come in contact with dis-
ease.
Aimee spent her first birthday, in
The London doctors hinted to February of 1988, in the hospital
Mrs. Leishman and her husband taking chemotherapy. Her birthday
that Aimee's iforkt000t be can- piCtuis,s,0010(ale,
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her to come home that night."' lasted eight months.
But Aimee would not return She did not show much improve -
home that night or for some tine. ment until August of last year. But
Several days later, their worst slowly and surely, she started to get
fears were confirmed — Aimee had stronger. On Dec. 23 of last year,
cancer and treatment would begin she stood up, "the best Christmas
immediately. Mrs. Leishman and present ever," says her mother.
her husband came home and tried Aimee's cancer is now in renis -
to make sense of what was happen- Sion, says Mrs. Leishman. Although
ing to their small daughter. there is always the chance that it
'We asked ourselves, 'Where is will recur, every day without inci-
the justice in this?' and found there dent lets the family breathe a little
is norie." easier.
It was difficult seeing their small Since Aimee missed so much
daughter subjected to debilitating during her early life, today her
chemotherapy treatments. Follow- mother tries to stimulate the child
ing treatments, the tiny girl would as much as ssibl h
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hair fell out. When she did return
home for short stays, her tempera-
ture or hemoglobin count would
climb so high that she would have
Through it all, Mrs. Leishman
tried to be by Aimee's side whenev-
er it was humanly possible. Her
husband was forced to return to
work, but says he was unable to
concentrate — his mind was far
away, on his little girl.
The strain of having a sick child
is incredible, but Mrs. Leishman
found support in the caring doc-
tors, nurses and social workers at
London. She also found solace in
talking with the parents of other
child cancer patients, including a
young Wingham couple, Dale and
Linda Edgar, whose little girl
Alyson was undergoing treatment
at the same time.
Mrs. Leishman stayed at Ronald
McDonald House while in London,
a home for the parents and families
of sick children.
The few times Aimee was
allowed td return' home with her
parents, it became like an armed
camp against disease and infection.
Aimee was so suseptible to infec-
tion, her mother did not take her
out, nor did she allow visitors,
to be re -admitted to hospital.
Aimee, who is hearing impaired
because of the cancer drugs, soon
will be fitted for hearing aids.
In spite of Aimee's slow start in
life, her mother is determined that
she will live as normally as possi-
ble.
"We know it (the cancer) could
come back, but we can't live our
lives like that, for her sake."
Next Sunday's Terry Fox Run is
one way the Leishmans can say
"thanks" to their doctors and the
miracles of modern medicine for
Aimee's remission. Mrs. Leishman
says she has some idea of what the
doctors go through because numer-
ous times she had seen Aimee's
doctors filling out mountains of
forms required for research dollars.
When the Edgers, organizers of
the Wingham run, asked that
Aimee be this year's Terry's Team
member, the Leishmans readily
agreed. No one knows better than
they how badly money is needed
for cancer research.
There are a lot of people walking
around today who had cancer five,
10 or 20 years ago, notes Mrs.
Leishman. The fight must continue
to find a cure and new drugs that
will ease the pain and suffering of
cancer.
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