Show I 1 smiling youth has i had 44 operations actions bone disease develops from slight bruise MILWAUKEE the morning sun shines brightly through the east windows of milwaukee county gen eral hospital but the most cheerful corner of the room is the one mccu pied pled by eugene benin bonin 18 smiling veteran of 44 operations eugene hasteen has been lying in that bed for almost three years he may ne never leave t it wab was in the spring of 1935 that eugene euvene s troubles beg anthe moth erless boy and his father michael be believe eugene was a member of the high school track team while lumping jumping the hurdles at practice one day he fell bruising and scratching his leg soon after the fall it was dincov ered he was suffering ering from an ab icess in the bone doctors operated but the disease spread doctors di it as a dis ease wh ch slowly devours the bones bone since then his life has been a se nes ries of operations and blood transou doctors attending him at the hospital have lost count of the blood transfusions they have been so nu berous when hia his strength permits eu gene sits up in the bed and uses a razor blade to build model airplanes and trains his model locomotives have traced the development of the railroad industry from the earliest one horse types to the ultra mod ern streamliners his father knows that hoping for the day when hen eugene will walk again is almost futile but I 1 e goeb goes on believing that perhaps some day comet something hing will happen to turn the tide of ill fortune doctors experimented experiment ea with guinea pigs believing that perhaps they could find some solution to the ail ment thus tar far they have not been successful almost every bone cladist in the city has examined eu gene his doctors said none has been able to offer any assistance however eugene himself attempts ito to minimize the difficulty he elpe bences through the affliction aw they aren t so bad he says when he tells of his many opera eions I 1 some of them were just little ones |