Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free september Lawrence fights cancer As he carries on with life want Feltt by Brian gory Lawrence shovels pizza into his Mouth with the Arm that int hooked up to a plastic bag dripping cancer fighting sitting with him on his bed Are three women his who is prob ing for a fatter vein his who is dishing out ice Cream and sym Pathy and his liven who is poking through newspaper want ads to find an apartment so she and her baby can move away from the injected with drugs this is Ward e2 at the health sciences where cancer patients Are injected with drugs to stifle the growth of but this Long room with a Row of Beds looks no different from the physiotherapy Ward a few Steps Down the except that one Ashe faced woman is wringing her hands in a particularly despairing nerve endings damaged she is waiting for treatment beside a comfortable Man in his late 50s when Days numbered a silent Lawrence ladies five children from four Breeds and trains race raises show advertising for everything to live symptoms lumps in the Arm neck and Crotch diagnosis advanced cancer of the Lymphatic prognosis perhaps 18 months to two christmases and one who has been coming to this Ward off and on for the past the drugs damage nerve causing his cancerous cells travel Lymphatic Highway the Lymphatic a network of tiny vessels throughout the is usually our Friend where cancer is its our worst in a healthy the Lymph system carries fatty nourishment to our cells and gobbles up disease causing Bate but it also is the Highway Down which cancerous cells travel from a diseased Organ to a healthy where they continue their dirty wildly Multi plying and crowding out Good the main staging areas for the Lymph fluid Are in the armpits and when you have a sore your neck glands May become which is an indication that your antibodies Are rallying in their War against the Bate but when a gland swells for no apparent such As those under lawrences armpit several years a doctors advice should be Lawrence didst visit a doctor until lumps appeared in his neck and Groin and he began feeling an xray of a purple Dye injected into the Lymphatic system showed the worst it was totally swallowing or receiving injections of drugs a treatment called chemotherapy May slow Down or postpone the multiplication of cancer cells before they take Over a vital Organ and cause dots show Lymphatic hands to become too numb to work at his machinist he 1 dont worry about t take it As it and goes Back to his two younger one Are amicably playing inspirational posters line the tops of the Walls can because they think they reads the caption below a picture of two soaring this is the second week of six months of chemotherapy for whose Lymphatic system cancer was ignored so Long that it reached the critical stage stage 4 is the final stage where the cancer invades a vital Organ such As the liver or spleen and Little the machinist has cancer in the same but he visited a doctor in its Early stages so chemotherapy could be More Lawrence takes drugs for two then stops for two then repeats the the layoffs allow Normal cells to while cancerous cells grow More or Stop Multi plying treatment consists of daily Pill Tak ing plus a Strong dose Given intravenously at the Hospital for two hours each the drug is so potent that it causes the bladder to so extra fluids Are pumped into his body one of the is derived from a common flowering the periwinkle the Mode of action is reads the drug de scrip it May cause an arrest of cell division at a certain hair loss is common because hair cells grow More rapidly than other cells and hence Are first to show the effects of any interference with cell Lawrence still has a full head of hair and he feels healthy except for a con Stant pain deep in his which started when he began taking the he tells his sister and Girlfriend that when he Dies he wants some of his estate Money to used for a big party for his just come to the he tells ill do my own Farewell on video a horse into the Sun sister having Tough time Hes interjects his Daria who is an operating room technician at the health sciences when Lawrence leaves the Ward to catch up on his appointments As an advertising Salesman for she Lin Gers to despite her medical Shes having a Tough time accepting her Brothers i dont see him being very i dont see him lying there my god weve always been so Why City Calendar there will be a country and Western concert from noon to 6 tomorrow behind the main Pavillion at Assiniboine the six hour show will feature More than 15 singers weather h High l Low pressure cold from worm from Winnipeg area forecast mainly sunny today with Southwest winds gusting to 40 late this morning and High today near 28 and Low tonight near sunny with a brisk Northwest wind tomorrow and a High near extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mostly sunny tuesday and wednesday with temperatures near Normal readings of 18 and Northern Manitoba mostly sunny with temperatures near Normal readings of 15 and 3 tuesday and wednes except in Vicinity of Hudson Bay where it will be Cloudy with below Normal Northwestern Ontario mainly sunny with temperatures near Normal readings of 17 and 6 tuesday and temperatures Canada and the world country concert in Park and including bitter Creek Bill Wagon Beau Russ red Sherry and elderly residents from several senior citizens Homes Are being brought to the concert Courtesy of its Imperial towing and the Grad choir will hold an organizational practice at tomorrow for Young adults wanting to keep up their musical the practice will take place at Andrews United King Sway Avenue and Oak Paul a former Cuso worker in will speak on human rights in the third world at tuesday in 362 Manitoba University of the sponsor is the Cuso Winnipeg Urban provincial Toronto up the winning ticket in yester Days provincial lottery is there Are also subsidiary our mistake a Story thursday said wrongly that the construction company paving municipal Road in Charleswood is charging a Square foot to surface the approaches to homeowners in the company is charging per Square deaths classified death National 21 10 20 la 27 10 23 5 30 12 25 14 12 3 24 15 28 16 27 18 Thunder 21 7 21 9 14 12 16 10 17 10 International 30 18 32 17 new 19 24 17 23 15 30 is 23 13 16 10 26 18 24 14 i 30 14 20 13 16 12 26 16 20 9 Tel 29 24 spots los Cloudy 23 18 Las Clear 38 22 Clear 39 27 Clear 31 21 Clear 31 22 Clear 32 24 29 24 talk 33 21 Clouds 31 24 31 26 31 25 Winnipeg Tempero vre com Writon mean last on record in 1931 lowest in record in 1940 precipitation total for april of wife of Hormidas of 972 Dominion husband of Nettie Harold husband of Peggy of 582 Dufferin Leonard of husband of june of 1 Burnaby widow of Pietro Fernando of husband of Eliza Sydney of 500 Mandalay wid Ower of Kathleen of de formerly of wife of Norman of widow of Harry wid Ower of Margaret of wife of Victor he Harold of 39 Vavasour Hus band of Margaret of of husband of Jean widow of Michael Maurice Ian widower of Cecile Gordon of 387 Lyle husband of Marelle of rus widow of Albert of Glas husband of Maude Allan of husband of Evelyn of mid formerly of Winni Peg and husband of Mary of husband of Mary Rafa of glad Henry Hus band of Kathleen Teresa widow of Edward George 331 Blake suite husband of Linda Lawrence is Given an injection of cancer fighting drugs by a nurse at health sciences didst he Tell me when he Felt that Lump under his Arm she fights adjusts her tightly fitting operating room Bonnet and Hur Ries off to help other patients get a new lease on Odd a whippoorwill laments the Early morning brightness and horses whinny for attention on shed Row at Assiniboia Downs As Lawrence unloads 80 Bales of Straw and Hay from an old flatbed his face seems More deeply lined than usual and he admits to having gone through an agonizing weekend of stomach upsets and Diar that marked the end of his first two weeks of but theres Little time for self pity the horses he trains Are demanding attention to their finicky Knacks gunner has been clumsily stumbling Over his own cutting his pique Dame needs a Metal Choker around her neck to keep her from sucking air and bloating when she Call me Breezy is recovering from near death after pulling herself up in a race and trying to kick herself in the prompt injection of a muscle relax ant saved her for another Day of Lawrence is surprised at her Friski Ness this see that what drugs can that Why i believe in his female partner and former Lover has now moved Back in with him at his farm is mucking out the stalls with a their Tough strutting helps mom rip open a fresh bag of shavings in a stall and gets to Roll in it before the horse what do the kids think about the fact their father May not be around in a couple of years the kids Are brought up where life and death is a common Lawrence referring to the activity around his old animals die and sometimes sick animals d d d in becoming More of a loner be cause no one is going to be dying with Lawrence exactly four weeks to the Day after he found out he might not reach his 40th that Why in trying to find peace in in doing More meditation and self evaluation than Ive Ever Doest sleep Well Hes much stopped smoking but bums a cigarette in Assiniboia Downs Backstretch cafeteria after Fin Ishing a plate of Ham and i dont sleep Well maybe four with i stay awake for the to always stays As the Day my stomach feels worse and i was totally knocked out on the i do anything one people phoned me since the first Story two weeks ago and told me chemotherapy would Burn me they said they beat it by not taking he estimates 70 or 80 Many of them telephoned him after Reading the first health food nuts Are the ones who seem to be making All kinds of people Are into eating Natu ral people Are telling me How Many chemicals there Are in White in White an Apple has been sprayed with pesticides an aver age of five 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