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Show Lisa Can Ride Her "Goldilocks Again Because of Help From March of Dimes - X ' .J ! ' " ! : ox v-' -' if"- ' ', , ' I." ;:: : ? . Vifcw V - " 4 J A magnificent fairyland of a special kind, in which leg aches are still known but not felt so often as before, be-fore, has just opened for ! four-year-old Lisa Sliker, of Leicester, N. Y. "My doctors," the blue-eyed and auburn-haired Lisa tells everyone today, "have made my leg almost all well again. Now I can sit on my horsie, Goldilocks, and I can walk to the barn on my crutches and see my kittens and the pigs." The new lease on life accorded accord-ed little Lisa is due in great measure to the treatment she continues to receive each month at the arthritis clinical study center at University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital, established with public contributions contri-butions to the March of Dimes. Stricken three years ago with baffling rheumatoid arthritis in her right leg, the attractive child wore a cast for many months but now no longer wears it at night although she goes to sleep hugging "my old 1 leg" like a doll. Lisa is one of 30,000 youngsters young-sters in the United States who are afflicted by rheumatoid arthritis ar-thritis which interferes with bone growth and may cause deformity. In addition to the study center visited by Lisa at Rochester, March of Dimes funds have made possible the opening of additional arthritis study centers in New York City, Dallas and San Francisco. Mrs. Sliker recounts: "My husband and I were scared witless when Lisa's stumbling was ' diagnosed as provoked by rheumatoid arthritis, ar-thritis, which somehow sounded sound-ed like something that might strike your great-grandfather. But not strike down the beautiful, beau-tiful, merry and innocent little baby with whom God had blessed us. "It was a terrifying experience experi-ence for us to watch Lisa lying motionless in her crib, pain in her eyes and face but holding back the tears. Her right knee was swollen to unbelievable size. But now that she is much better and some day may walk agajn unassisted by crutches, we pray that, like Lisa, others Lisa Sliker, four, rheumatoid arthritis victim, is able to feed her Daddy's pigs on farm at Leicester, N. Y., although she still wears cast on her right leg. may be helped by the March of Dimes." Mrs. Sliker is a volunteer worker in her county during the March of Dimes,, collecting funds for The National Foundation's Founda-tion's expanded program which includes significant birth defects de-fects together with arthritis and continued work in polio. "My farmer husband helps me call on neighbors during January," Mrs. Sliker adds. "The snows are mountainous at that time of year in our neck of the woods, but we both feel that helping the March of Dimes is the least we can do in . return for the help given our Lisa." |
