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Show Monday, December Clean Home By CHARLENE WINTERS and ROXANNE WEBB Herald Staff Writers First glance at her home reveals its beauty. The exterior is brick, and the interior is oak and glass. The oak is beautiful, but unLinda Thomson is an extrovert treated, because Linda is allergic who really likes people. But up to oils or stains that would protect until the last two years, she's had wood. A rug is placed inside the to leave them out of her life unless doorway so guests can remove they were willing to be her friend their shoes, and preserve the on her terms. wood. She likes to give and attend n A living room is enparties, but she can't not unless cased in glass, and the browns and she brings something she is albeiges in the cotton couch accent lowed to eat, stays at the party for the modern decorating scheme. and up until There are no carpets or drapes only a brief time if she inhaled oxygen because she cannot have anything recently from a tank to and from the party. in the house that catches dusts and The Orem mother of five suffers molds, but the home is still beautifrom severe allergies. "I figure if ful. The only thing that looks dated I had lived during a pioneer era, I in the house are the bedspreads. step-dow- Linda functions, "much better than before." Linda cannot live with today's "miracle" fabrics, and must use fabrics such as cotton, flannel and corduroy. The bedspreads are old and worn because what is available on the market is unsatisfactory. Linda has been ill most of her life, but until six years ago, she dust-fre- e, chemically-fre- I d unit at Brookhaven Hospital in Dallas. The doctor there, William Rae, also has the illness. She began to realize the extent of her illness when she looked around her and noticed that nobody else had the heart monitor, IV's and support systems that were part of her experience there. At last she could pinpoint her illness. It wasn't in her head. It also helped her husband to see 100 ar "I wanted to crusade for a cleaner, purer lifestyle," she explains. The first thing the Thomsons did was create one clean room. They stripped the master bedroom of curtains and bedspreads and took all the plastic and polysynthetic materials and put them in a room. Later Bill built the beautiful oak and glass home they live in today. What she learned at the environmental unit improved her diet and and helped her understand her ailment. A clean home, also made things a little easier. But two years ago she found a treatment that has made the biggest difference in her life. One day her parents read in a I V WJ newspaper a story about a bioche- mist who seemed to have the same symptoms as their daughter. Through his own research and some help from the medical profession, he found that Selenium (a trace mineral in the soil) and vitamin C, in large quantities, freed him from allergic reactions. Although this method may not work for everyone, Linda has so much so found relief from it that she can work at home without the crippling symptoms she lived with before. "I have a lot more freedom now and my family life is more normal. I didn't get a miracle, but I'll settle for just being in control of my life." symptoms in varying degrees. THIS A Investment Tax-Manag- ed week's Dear Ann Landers: I am a ago. At that time he had been involved with a winner! Ten years ago every day was a cal nurse. She was the same age struggle. I was a high school as his oldest son. Natives of the town know junior with a baby and a lunatic for a husband. I thought about enough to keep their young girls committing suicide every day for away from him. It's the newcomsix years. ers who have the problem. In both cases nothing was done. I overdosed, at 14, got pregnant at 16, had a baby and was married Both girls were embarrassed and at 17, graduated from high school very upset over the exam. It was and was divorced at 18. I went totally unexpected. The mothers did not know what through guys, dope and booze. I to say or do, so they did nothing. was a burn-oat 22. Anyone who thinks life isn't Anyway, what could be done or worth living is wrong. I once had said after the fact? In our town there is no medical those thoughts while I was going through all of the trouble. But I society, onlv cossin from nurses finally decided if I killed myself about this particular doctor. What small Town In today I wouldn't be around to see can De doner my kid grow up and I was down so Nebraska low I had nowhere to go but up. Now I have it all two gorDear Neb. : The other physicians geous kids, a wonderful husband in town should report the doctor to and a free (and straight) mind. At the county and state medical so27 I have what some people never cieties. Also to the American Medfind. From the gutter I made it to ical Assn. headquarters in Chithe top of the world. cago. I'm a great believer in the The point is that if I could do it, theory that the professions must anyone can. Some need more help police their own or suffer the than others. I didn't need any. But consequences. if you need help, GET IT. 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He performed vaginal exams on both girls, with no nurse, present and without consulting the mothers', was This doctor, in his mid-50- s, committed to a mental hospital for several weeks about 19 years ite (mm 11 AMD. FACILITIES FOR MEN AND WOMEN Every Hour Relaxing Whirlpool THE FINEST IN SERVICES Aerobics Classes Indoor Swimming Pool and Soothing Sauna Steam Room Nutritional Guidance Habits . u u MONTHS Beauty Tips k Perm and color Perming bleached or dyed hair is no longer a Though most can be not solutions permanent only drying, and damaging to color processed hair, there are gentle sulfite-baseproducts available.. 'Ask your hair stylist about .them. There's one added benefit, too; most perms will lighten your hair just a bit, but these products don't! Indoor Jogging Track" Racquetball Courts Modern Conditioning Equipment "Facilities Vary With Location no-n- o. V d Fashion passion When Joanna Cassidy, star of TV's Buffalo Bill series, spoke to Beauty Digest magazine, she revealed her favorite shopping strategy: "I don't like spending a lot of time trying clothes on, so I'll usually go to a shopping center where I'm likely to find everything I need. It's not my favorite pastime, but it is a necessity. I've also found that shopping by catalogue .can be. fun and a time-- , saver." v m 9 I bral swelling. During this time, she lost touch with reality. "Bill would say things to me such as, 'You haven't been with us for three days.' " One year she had five major surgeries. Her surgeon told her, "This can't go on, I'm killing you." A short time later he learned of an environmental unit in Dallas, specializing in cases like hers. Soon she was admitted to the didn't know, what was wrong with her. As a child she almost died after receiving a small pox inoculation. Another time during her childhood she was paralyzed for more than four months after taking an antibiotic. She, at times, thought she was getting better, but didn't realize her body was simply maladapting. She attended BYU, earned a bachelor's degree, served as presiden of BYU Women and married Bill Thomson. She later had five children, and got sicker after each pregnancy. An optimist with a sunny outlook on life, Linda didn't want people to know how sick she felt most of the time. During one five-yeperiod, she had a running fever that didn't abate, Sometimes she would feel really high, but it would be followed by periods of being really low. She felt pain in all her joints and existed through some really bad headaches. Her worst symptom was cere From Despair To Key to All Is - Page If Timely issues, news, features, including family, food, fashion Today would probably have had a few more colds, runny noses and skin reactions than other people, but I wouldn't have known I was ill," she says. Thanks to the clean environment of her "safe" home and a method of treatment that works for her, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 12, 1983 FASHION PtACE 6100 HOLLADAY (OPEN SUNDAY) 268-06- 06 E. , SOUTH 278-284- DRIVE m j m Im t - fitness cente SUGARHOUSE 484-878- 6 1033 6 4700 HIGHLAND I E. 21st SOUTH OGDEN WEST VALLEY CITY 966-138- 3681 SOU. OF VALLEY (WEST 621-63- 8 r FAIR MALL 3354 50 HARRISON BLVD. OREM 225-775-0 |