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Show March of Dimeo Aid Frees Joan To Devote Self to Helping Other 3 r For years, Joan Keeler lias been jousting with a formidable; antagonist. 13 J" is rheumatoid j i j ': ' -'-- ar- thritis. Arthritis tortures, cripples and deforms more people in the United States than any other disorder. 1 Emphasizing that she wants nor needs anyone's sympathy, Joan agreed to toll something about her encounters with this excruciating disease since her teens. She spoke 1 during one of her monthly visits to the March of Arthritis Center at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Joan Keeler (left), after long and painful joust with rheumatoid Center, New York City. At the age of 17, Joan could arthritis, now teaches others who are handicapped. Above, she's look forward to what should instructing in the use of sewing machine. be a reasonably happy life. She was attractive, athletic and a savagely than it had before. rehabilitative exercise was pos.good student. sible. The second Then without warning, Joan from college washomecoming no less dis "The simple truth is that the says, "the roof of my little couraging than the first. But it March of Dimes put me on my dream house caved in. did result in her applying to feet," she explains. This feelFirst, there were unaccount- the Arthritis Clinic of Colum- ing of thankfulness set her to able pains during the summer bia Presbyterian Medical Cen- thinking of doing something ter, which had been studying within her capabilities which just before college, and that meant the end of athletics be- the problem of rheumatoid arwould also be helpful to others. cause pain wracked her body. thritis since 1928, and to which She had had intimate experiNext, fever and loss of weight. The National Foundation-Marc- h ence, during her own ordeal, of Dimes has contrib- with many kinds of therapy. Diagnosis of rheumatoid arArmed with this familiarity, thritis, never simple to make, uted $105,106 since 1959. was even more difficult 13 years After exhaustive tests, the she began to study occupationshook their upshot was a definite diagnosis al therapy which is the teachago.- Specialists heads in puzzlement over which of rheumatoid arthritis. Now, ing of arts and trades as a disease had robbed this young at last, the enemy was identi means of rehabilitation of pawoman of perfect health. fied. tients handicapped physically The first urgent objective or mentally. Despite the increasing sever"I was lucky to get a posiity of the pains, Joan was de was to reduce Joan's pain so termined to start college. The that she could be moved, and tion as an occupational thera first, almost insurmountable move herself, without unen- pist at Fair Oaks Hospital in problem was getting from dor durable suffering. This was ac- my home town," Joan relates. mitory to classroom. The next complished in part through "I soon learned that I underdifficulty was concentration administration of cortisone stood the attitudes of these paHow can a student apply her (which she continues to take tients toward life their fears self closely to lectures and but in reduced dosages). A and hostilities and that they homework when she suffers in second goal was, by means of understood my attitude, becessant spasms of pain in her surgery, to "unclench" her cause all of us had experienced back, arms and hands, legs and hands so that she could regain what it is to be handicaoped. even her toes? the use of her fingers. A third And I am better adjusted and "It became a fiasco." she says aim was to minimize the happier than I was because I g "The plain fact was I couldn't pressure on her am helping others." keep up. I had to drop out." feet by designing special mocPerhaps the old foe, the formidable antagonist, has not Then, ..during the following casins. The fourth aim was to begin been altogether vanquished. But summer, Joan's old foe seemed to relent. She improved and re physical therapy as soon as by helping others, Joan Keeler cortisone had reduced the in- has found that at least she now turned to school. But the rheumatoid arthritis flammation of joints and con- keeps her enemy on the dereturned to tne attack more nective tissues to a point where fensive, most of the time. nei-1h- v er 4 Dimes-finance- . two-ho- I d The change will affect about 4,500 men in 25 communities. It is pending final approval of the National Guard Bureau in Wash ington, D.C., to provide addition al funds for two noon meals a month for each guardsman. Army National. Guardsmen wi'l train an average of one weekend a month rather than once weekly in the evening, as under the present training program, Gen. Rich said. 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Maxwell Rich, ;Majfire their weapons. 1952, the Adjutant General said. announced today. Utah National Guard Change Meet Dates CASTLE GATEABECDEEH hmX" 10 Your CommMi' |