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Show ( In y THANKFUL FOR HEALTHY CHILD Janice Lutz is thankful her daughter Stacie was born without any birth defects, although some doctors thought she would be born blind and mentally retarded. March of Dimes volunteer and she was glad to oblige. "I'm not in that position (to need help) but could've been. We're just so thankful. A lot aren't that lucky. We need these programs to help out." In fact, March of Dimes campaigning is continuing with residents urged to contact their block or area solicitors to make a contribution. NOTING THAT little Stacie is "just perfect" she relates the case of a woman who had similar circumstances prior to giving birth. "Her baby is blind and mentally retarded." In the meantime, Mrs. Lutz continues to support the March of Dimes, Cancer Society Soci-ety and other groups. She may need help for cancer treatments treat-ments later they said the next five years could show a recurrence. But whatever happens hap-pens at least one Layton family is especially thankful for an apparently normal, beautiful one-year-old daughter. By TOM BUSSELBERG LAYTON A Layton family is just grateful they don't need any help from the March of Dimes. "IT'S NOTHING personal, you understand, but Bruce and Bonnie Lutz are "thankful" their year-old daughter Stacie was born without any birth defects. de-fects. Mrs. Lutz says it could've been a lot different. "They found a lump in my breast in May 1979. 1 went to the hospital hospit-al and had a lumpectomy it was cancer. A week later I had a mastectomy. "BUT I COULDN'T get to feeling well. 1 found out I was pregnant," the mother of six living children says, "an obstetrician ob-stetrician told me all the things that could go wrong. 1 was 40 years old, both my husband and I have Rh negative factor , . , (blood) and that was bad and 5. k'llj then all the x-rays I had."--'!' --. r-t -Added to that was the narco-3 "'" ' " tics she had received to counter coun-ter the pain and the anesthe tics. "He suggested an abortion abor-tion and of course I turned that down," she says. ALL OF THIS was happening happen-ing at the very beginning of pregnancy so it was nearly a full nine month wait filled with worry over what might happen, hap-pen, Mrs. Lutz recalls. "Dr. Paul Taylor at the Tanner Tan-ner Clinic delivered the baby. He was more positive and told me to go one day at a time. We were afraid of blindness, mental men-tal retardation and Down's syndrome (mongolism) due to the time it (treatment) happend and all the vital parts were being formed." BUT THEN she moved to the day of birth continuing the account . "as she was being de-livered de-livered she looked up and blinked at the lights in the delivery de-livery room. "It's been such a relief as she learns to do each thing. At 9'j months she started walking. walk-ing. When I think of the things that could'Ve gone wrong,..." MRS. LUTZ was called as a |