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Show Lakeside, Community IWvt4 Tuesday March 18. 1 997 j SENIOR CALENDAR Triday at 1130 am. Rcvcna' lions are required. The Quilt Spinners will meet 773-706- 5 at 3 p m. on March 26. The foot clinic is March 2 Blood pressure clinics are noon. at Appointments are necthe first Thursday and third The cod is SI0. That essary. Tuesday at 10 a m. from 10 to w 1 1 :30 a.m. evening there will be a trip Theaier Memorial The Rodgers Tax arpoimmem are every in Centerville to see "Servani of Wednesday and Friday until Two Macicrs. The cost is 51 9. April a person. Reservations shoutJ There will be a surprise parbe made by March 25. on All are senium ty Thursday. The Easier party is on encouraged to attend. 28 wuh treats and bingo. March Lxercises for arthritis will be next 55 Alive defensive The 11:45 on March 26 at taught class will be April 9 and driving am. 10. Call the eenier for registraThe Lister party will be March 28 with fun surprises tion. A volunteer porcelain teachand gifts. The March birthday party is er is needed for a clast 11:30 March 31 at 1 1:30 a.m. Call for Wednesdays from 9 to a.m. T hose interested in the poreservations. should call the center. Joys of Proper Nutrition will sition be taught April 2 at 11:45 a.m. Senior Association, Davis The foot clinic is Apnl 3. 1600 W. Joys of Recreation will be Hospital Chapter, Antelope Drive, Layton, April 7 at 11:45 a.m. The Wcndover trip is April 774-708- 0 8. The cost is S12 with an SI I Low-impaaerobics for cash back. members only arc every TuesJoys of Car Problems is day and Thursday at 9 a.m. and April 9 at 11:45 a.m. Joys of 10 a.m. The cost is SI per class Syracuse History is April 16 at in the Womens Center educa11:45 a.m. 0 tion classroom. Call A free glaucoma screening is for more information. slated for April 14 from 1 1 a.m. Health screening is done to I p.m. No appointment is twice a month, on the first and needed. third Wednesdays in the classwill The Joys of Foot Care room area of the hospital. be April 16 at 11:45 a.m. Blood pressure and blood testA Joys of Volunteering Soare done. For a blood gluing cial will be April 18 from 3 to 4 cose test, dont eat for two p.m. hours before being tested. A group of children will sing is no cost. There April 21 at 11:45 a.m. Tax assistance is offered to Clinton of Roy Thompson Senior Friends members at no will be entertaining each Mon-dj- y on Mondays from 8 a.m. cost from II to 11:30 a.m. He noon. Appointments are rehas presented many programs to walk-in- s will be acof his piano music through the quired. No cepted. years. Please RSVP for all activities The Old Time Singers enter0. or by stopby calling tain each Tuesday from 10:30 ping at the office Monday a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday between 8 a.m. The center needs an art through have If an hour or two one you teacher. If you know of anyone a week to volunteer, call who can teach art let Paula day Lora Kicr at know the center. Heritage Senior Citizens Center, 562 S. 1000 Cost, Clearfield, ct 774-708- XWirv CavanO SiiTxwa Lurnrm C0UICT1QN THAT COVERS: A smiling JoAnne Asay. who lost month underwent a cell transplant operation to fight her widespread cancer, shows of the hats she likes to wear. Asay is bald now due to chemotherapy. She's staying now with her parents in Bountiful to recover. some Hats off to cancer victim QHuge collection just one way Farmington woman shows her positive attitude BLOFHJ. NAKAYU Safoard Enamner corespondent Farmington As she puts it. - Not everything to JoAnne Asay as a Te has been bad. had some wonderful experiences." Asays battle with breast cancer began six yettrs ago. and through it all she's had many ups and downs, but she's always tried to remain positive. Although bald now because of the chemotherapy treatments, Asay doesn't like wearing wigs. They bother me, and wig all the time and I feel like Im in a it's not me," said Asay. "It doesn't seem natural. Her answer: Hats and more hats. Ive chosen to wear different hats. I wear hals to everything." Asay, 49, said she probably has about 50 hats that she wears to go with different outfits and moods. She also has several hats for holidays or seasons, including a Valentine's hat, a Sir Patrick's Day hat, a flag hat for patriotic occasions, and a hat covered with pansies for spring. ; One of her favorite hats she received while dining out one night. Her waiter was Tyler Byington, a senior at Davis High School. He was wearing a cute little golf hat," Asay said. "It was black and white checked. I told him, 'Ooh, I like your hat. He said he liked my hat as well. He asked me how I lost ny hair, and I told him it was cancer. Asay said the young man proceeded to tell her that his uncle has cancer so he knows a little about it. Through the meal they talked, then at the end of the meal Byington brought Asay a Susan B. Anthony dollar. ; He told her he wanted her to take it and keep it with her. Its been my lucky coin, and now I want it. to be your lucky coin, Byington told her. Then he also gave Asay his hat. ' "Its become my favorite hat, said Asay. 7 I took the dollar with me to the hospital. I still have it. I told him that when Im through with everything and Im all better, I'll take the Susan B. Anthony dollar back to him and it can be his lucky coin again, Asay said. jShe found it refreshing to be around someone like that. It gave me faith again in the youth in this world. He was so kind and so sensitive and had enough character that he wanted me to have his lucky coin, and here I w4s a stranger, Asay said. Asay was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago, and went through cancer treatment and a mastectomy. After she went through chemotherapy, radiation therapy, more che- -- mo. and had a second mastectomy, she was doing pretty good. Asay was 43 year old when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. "My three children, who were 18,16, and 12 at the lime, were still living at home, so it was very hard on my husband and my kids and myself," Asay said. Then about a year and half ago. Asay's saliva glands stopped functioning. "We found that the radiation I had had from my breast cancer treatments had burned and destroyed my saliva glands." said Asay. I had to have my saliva glands taken out last year, so I have an extremely dry mouth. Asay said she thought she was doing remarkably well until September of last year when, during a visit to her oncologist, she learned her cancer had spread to her skull, her back and to lymphnodcs in her stomach and chest. "That automatically put me in a stage of cancer which is terminal," Asay said, "and my oncologist recommended that 1 have a stem cell transplant." A stem cell transplant is similar to a bone marrow transplant, except the cancer patients own bone marrow is harvested, rather than using a donor's bone marrow. To make the decision to have a transplant is a decision thats very, very hard to make," Asay said. "Sometimes I would think, I dont know if I can go through it. I don't know if I have it in me to be laid up for six months." A transplant can cause many side effects, and some patients get very sick, Asay said. There was so much to consider that she really had to put a lot of thought into the decision. Asay said that one night she was discussing it with her husband, and she told him that she didnt know if she could go through with a transplant. At the time her three children were in the kitchen, and her husband said, I can tell you three, no, four reasons that you have to do it. Three of them are standing in the kitchen and one is here with you. Asays husband, Dave, told her that not only did she need to have the transplant for them, but she needed to do it for herself. You would always wonder what might have been if you dont do it. Right then and there Asay knew she had to make the decision to go ahead with the transplant. I decided to just take the consequences and take it one day at a time. Asay began preparing for the operation, and last October she went on Taxol, a fairly new cancer-fightin- g drug, for four months. Then in January she was admitted to the University Hospital for an overnight stay during which she was administered chemotherapy for 24 hours. What this did was kill all my white blood cells, Asay said. Then they started giving me injections to grow new ones. When my stem cells started to grow, they hooked me machine, so they could up to a dialysis-lik- c harvest, or take oIT, the stem cells out of my blood. Sometimes LAYTON - Saturday brings ai opportunity for employment and for finding out about what tyies of jobs are available. ,'The Layton Employer Spotlight and Job Fair will focus on matching people seeking jobs wjth hiring employers. The fair will feature 50 area businesses sharing the qualifications they are locking for in employees. Employers will also show their prod takes patients about four 774-708- 774-708- 0. at Also another porcelain doll teacher is needed. Call to volunteer. Mountain High students visit the center each Thursday for discussions and to help out. Grocery shopping is done on Mondays at 12:30 p.m. Autumn Glow Senior Citizens Center, 81 E. Center Street, Kaysville, 544-123- 5 Appointments are every day for free tax form help. There are openings are in the watercolor class, lapidary and wood carving classes. clinic The is Thursday. Reservations are required. The Layton Quilters will also meet at 10 a.m. The March birthday party is check-your-heal- th Menus Wednesday, March 19: roast turkey, potatoes, spinach, cranberry salad, pudding, wheat roll and milk. Thursday, March 20: pork chow mein, diced carrots, bean salad, gingerbread, dinner roll and milk. Friday, March 21: Parmesan chicken, barbecued rice, broccoli, salad, pears, banana bread and milk. Monday, March 24: cod baked potato, squash, peach salad with cream cheese, cheesecake with blueberries, whole wheat roll and milk. Tuesday, March 25: Swedish meatballs, buttered noodles, stewed tomatqes, carrot raisin salad, banana mandarin fruit cup, oatmeal roll and milk. FREE Report Reveals The little Known Secrets Of How To Get The Highest Price When You Sell Your Home! If you are selling your home, or thinking of selling your home, get a copy of this FREE Report today. It could save you thousands of dollars in profits. 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Within eight days after the procedure Asay's engrafiment had taken and her stem cells were grow ing into her bone marrow. She was taken off all antibiotics so her body could start reconstructing her immune system. The little stem cells are so brand new that they are just like a babys, Asay said. They dont know what to do. They dont know how to fight. So I'm being introduced to things very slowly so that my stem cells will learn how to fight off disease and infection. She was released from the hospital only 10 days afler the transplant. Asay is now recovering at her parents home in Bountiful, as the doctors thought Farmington was too far from the hospital. Although Bountiful isn't that much closer to Salt Lake than Farmington is, the extra five to 10 minutes can really make a difference, Asay said. Asays dad, Donald Kreutzer, said, if any complications result, they can get her up to the hospital in 30 minutes. I think its wonderful that she has the opportunity to have this treatment that can buy her some more time in her life, said Asays mom, Clara Kreutzer. Its been a privilege to have her come here. It's a small thing that we can do. All of our lives are on hold, Mrs. Kreutzer said. They don't want us to go around crowds either because we might bring germs back to her. But no matter how old she gets she's still my little girl, and this is the least we can do. Since being released from the hospital, Asay has taken an experimental drug called Interlocken 2. Shell take that for 18 days, and then be monitored closely for infections or other complications. Asay said it usually takes six months to get back the immune system that she needs. Then she will be given all of her childhood vaccinations again. After she fully recovers from the transplant and the doctors tell her its OK to go back to work, Asay hopes to return to her job at Carols Personal Boutique in Salt Lake. The shop sells silicone prosthesis and other breast carebreast wear products such as mastectomy bathing suits and bras. SERVICE IS OUR MIDDLE NAME' CHANGE OF SEASON SALE! END OF SEASON FURNACE SALE COOLER PRE-SEAS- ucts and services offered. Attendees will have the opportunity to place resumes with employers. Information presented will include employment forecasting and education goal setting. It will be held at the Layton LDS Stake Center, 60 West Gordon Ave., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information call David Workman at Featuring SAVE ON ALL SIZES A Romantic Heartwarming Drama Special Lighting and Effects Stirring Music and Dramatic Scenes Live Animals Work Guaranteed Legs On All Jobs Expert Installations Financing Available All NATURAL GAS FURNACE High Efficiency Energy Savings Work Guaranteed AH Fri. March 21, 1997 7:00 p.m. Sun. March 23, 1997 10:30 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Everyone invited! Free Admission! Free Estimates 547-122- 0. 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