Show - 9 71r5--Pt-sr116 Kim Doo Ian triple amputee walks swims plays Ping Tong loves to turn cartwheels She helps make new legs I r) WE fl -- 0 L - 4 1 3 1 0 1'if j 0 -- ' '' - '- ylt ' :4 01 ': ie :::-- t :: ' - - ‘1:'"' 4 nk'1 4 73' ' " i' ':::170!:: tilt:!': rct! t :3" :':'' 42':' !'' j ''''' :' ) : Ar 'irt "' ft'' : t : v's-- :: - ' k 4:':i'il' ' !::c Llax l')t'' 1 i 4 9444 - -- By Pat Capson A Tribune Lifestyle Writer im Doo lan walks for exercise and swims plays Ping-Ponloves to turn cartwheels When she moved to Utah in January she tried skiing Not unusual for a woman except Ms Doo tan is a triple amputee At birth her right arm extended only to the elbow and both legs ended below the knee She received her first artificial limbs when she was 18 months old Last October when she left Yonkers NY her plans did not include an extended stay in Salt Lake City "I was on my way to Los Angeles to live and work and stopped to see family friends Dr Willem and Janke Ko Iff" Ms Doo lan said "I was having trouble with my arm and Dr Kolff said 'I know just the people who can help'" He directed her to IOMED a research and development firm founded 15 years ago by a group of University of Utah faculty members and researchers including Dr Ko Iff best known for producing the first clinically useful artificial kidney and for his work on the implantable artificial heart Today IOMED has two divisions: Motion Control known for developing the Utah Artificial Arm and Med Arts which fits a wide spectrum of prosthetic products to amputees in the - Intermountain West and from as far away as AlaSka and Greece Ms Doolan not only got help for her arm but also became aware of the remarkable advances in artificial legs She gave up her career plans in southern California took a job as an assistant prosthetic technician with MedArts and is helping make a new pair of legs for herself "I plan to be taller and lighter" she laughed The legs 1 now have weigh 3 to 4 pounds The new ones made of acrylic and polyester will weigh 112 pounds and add 112 inches to my P' 'za 1: 4 06tik !' 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normally do columns on what a sissy he has become But you might as well know the truth: It has recently dawned on me that I'm my own grandma There was a song some years ago called "I'm My Own Grandpa" It was about some guy involved in a lot of divorces and marriages who somehow ended up being related to himself by marriage in a way that made him his own grandpa It was a deliberately stupid song because you could accomplish the same thing simply by marrying your grandmother if you and Granny are weird enough But that would have produced only one verse so the songwriter had to make it a lot more complicated There's nothing that complicated about my becoming my own grandpa This astonishing development is a product of an era in which both women and men work outside the home And of course that means in fairness that we have to divvy up the household chores that have customarily been done by women alone — Bill Hall the chores my grandma used to do and which my grandpa would never do because he was every bit as much of a real man as I am Back then to say that grandpa was a real man meant that he didn't do a lick of housework That was women's work Even after he retired he went downtown and played pool all day while Grandma continued to do all the housework Men retired Women never did When I was a small boy my grandmother used to complain to me about that But if I neglected to pitch in on the housework at our home in this era my wife wouldn't merely tell small boys about it She would tell large newspaper columnists about it most especially including the one she married So we have this arrangement I do my share of the housework or I can go live in heaven with Grandma Its help or die at our place As luck would have it we each enjoy different parts of the housework Fool that I am I happen to think cooking is fun — and a lot easier than women always said it was But after years of feeding the bottomless pits to whom she gave birth my wife considers cooking about as much fun as dental surgery So I do most of the cooking Meanwhile as a consequence I am a bit embarrassed to realize that I am becoming my own grandma When I was a child all the grandchildren relished going to Grandma's house not only because we liked her as a relative and found her a fascinating old prude but because she baked I also bake She baked fresh bread and cookies and pie and all that other grandma stuff I can still smell the brown sugar and cinnamon My mother used to cook the same things And all her grandchildren clamored to go to her house What a bakery What a candy store What a cook What a pushover for a compliment on her cookies That's what it used to be like to be Grandma Hall But no longer Today to my own amazement I am Grandma Hall I now hold the family job once held by my mother and by her mother before her Today a lot of the women my age have burned out on cooking But for many men my age cooking is a fresh new hobby And of course my wife wants to try fresh new hobbies of her own (I have encouraged her to take up lawn mowing and auto repair) Given that situation when your grandmother and your mother are gone there is only one way to smell those smells once more And when the chocolate chips are down we all have a baker in our body fighting to get out So I now have homemade bread once more And cinnamon rolls And fresh hot blueberry muffins The smell of brown sugar and the scent of cinnamon linger once more in my life And as those companions to my coffee come out of the oven the kids and the grandkids flock around They want to come to my kitchen the same as the grandchildren did to my grandmother's kitchen so many years ago But in truth I bake for me not for the children I do it not for the cookies and the bread and not just because it is an effective grandchild magnet I do it to feed the memories in my mind to bring back that time and that place and that small warm woman standing there dishing out the sugar in her cookies and in her touch Bill Hall is a columnist and edito- rial page writer for the Lewiston Morning Tribune Idaho a Salt Lake Tribune group newspaper at FOOD W-- 8 LINDA ELLERBEE W-- 7 SELF TANNING W-- 2 - 4' |