Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free november 1987 female sex differentiation not always apparent at birth dear Ann Landers 1 have never seen this problem in your column and Hope you will be Able to help my husband and i Are terribly Dis nearly three years ago we had our first my husband was in the delivery room with me and when the doctor its a girl we were both the next morning the paediatrician came in to give the baby a when he told my husband and me that our child might be a boy we Landers were he said he want sure and was calling in a special i had noticed that the genitalia didst look right and i mentioned it to my he said it was probably swollen As a result of birth trauma and not to worry about when the specialist came in the next Day he examined the baby and in not we will have to do some further the ultrasound test at childrens Hospi Tal in san Diego revealed that our baby had no internal female they still would not say for sure if we had a boy or a a chromosome study was done and the results showed All male chromosomes but still a sex determination was not testosterone shots were Given at three week in and it was then decided that our baby was a since that time the child has had two operations and one More is scheduled for we were told that this condition is called ambiguous we had never heard of it we were also told that it was due to a recess Ive Gene that my husband and i when we asked about future they you run a 25 per cent Chance of having it Hap pen we Are still shaken up by All this and would like to know if there Are any support groups for parents like can you help dear worried i spoke with George Ryan professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Tennessee at Mem Ryan explained that All be both male and go through the same Early development bloodshed Doest shake woman Faith in multiple marriage Salt Lake City a at Rhea Kunz has eight More than 130 grandchildren and great and was one of four women to share the same she was once jailed for polygamy and says she suffered death threats from Power hungry none of it has swayed her belief in the High and holy calling that mormon fundamentalists Call the but she said she is alarmed by an outbreak of violence among rival polygamous marked by the 16 slaying of polygamist Leader Daniel Ben a Soninlaw and onetime Follower of convicted murderer and polygamous patriarch Erville was killed at a Utah Camp site in a shooting authorities say May have had religious Lebaron died in prison in 1981 after being convicted of master minding the 1977 murder of Kunys Rulon the Leader of a rival and conspiring to kill his own verlan who was born to polygamists and separated from her Hus band shortly before she served a few Days in jail in 1944 for refusing to denounce says the Vio Lence contradicts the tenets of mor Mon everything is out of she said last there is such a concentration of evil and the fundamentalists Are crying out for the setting in order of the House of god As much As anyone most in Utah authorities and scholars estimate that there Are to prac Tising polygamists in the with most in once a focus of police in Arizona and other Western prosecution of polygamists has virtually ceased since the in 1984 Elizabeth a polygamous ran for Kane county attorney and and her big water mayor Alex ran for the Kane county commission in 1986 on the libertarian charges were never filed against Joseph or any of his 11 prosecutors said society More Liberal attitudes toward marital relationships dissuaded them from pressing charges under the states cohabitation its kind of ludicrous to enforce that when you have people living together without said attorney Brent for the most the polygamous groups remain closed to but the More relaxed climate has persuaded Kunz to speak out to Correct what she sees As misconceptions about Good Folk the main run of them Are hard working just honest people trying to get said who has eight More than 80 grandchildren and More than 50 there just Good Kunz belongs to none of the four major polygamist groups that sprang up after the mormon As a condition of Utah officially abandoned the practice of plural marriage in but her roots run deep among the dissidents who braved excommunication and criminal prosecution to keep polygamy her father fled to Mexico in the late 19th Century rather than abandon his two in Kunz accompanied her Hus band and his three other wives to jail rather than renounce the she said that in the 1970s followers of Ervil Lebaron also threatened her life in a bloody bid to control two of the major polygamous but she said none of the trials have shaken her conviction that plural marriage was ordained by god for his most faithful people who Haven had any con tact or knowledge of these they get their own Kunz most of the inquiries Are super i such As who earns the who does the that shows their ignorance of a Beautiful and holy that Law was Given to bring the choicest spirits into the polygamy was introduced in the 1840s to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latte Day saints by Church founder Joseph who said god had commanded up photo curator Gil Hewlett uses voice activated computer to help Cope with Blind aquarium curator plunges into adventure Vancouver up Gil hew Lett says he has gone through some agonizing months since he became but he also has tried Learned to use a voice activated and plans to ski this i jumped out of the plane to prove to myself i could do says curator of the Van Couver Public i dont Ever want to say that i cant do anything because in in excited about my life now its he said in an Ive come a Long Way since january for a i didst know if i wanted to continue at said he wanted to talk about his experience to encourage other Blind people to learn to enjoy life with their Hewlett knew since he was 16 that he eventually would go Blind from a progressive and incurable disease of the Retina Retinitis i was devastated when i found out As a and the doctors said every Case is different but id probably be Blind by when youre 16 the age of 40 seems like 100 years so Hewlett got on with his he came from a Happy Vancouver Island family and always loved and the biology was a natural Choice for his University id had night blindness since i was a but i never liked to Tell he in Hewlett walked into the aquarium looking for a temporary Job cleaning he was Given a Tough science test by director Murray Newman who hired him As staff my heart soared when he offered me the Hewlett but he immediately told Newman about his Eye disease and what it would Lead Newman hired him in at age he was promoted to slowly my eyesight got and my failure was denying that fact for so finally he turned to the Canad an National Institute for the he Learned to use a White was taught and got a Feder Al Grant to buy a voice activated computer and learn to use first i went to the Barbers by he then to the dry cleaners and then to the super a watershed for Hewlett was taking the bus to work instead of the first Day he mastered the bus the aquarium staff greeted him with he is giving talks again and went to an out town conference accompanied by common cold most frequent ailment afflicting humans what disease occurs More frequently than dental sprains and bruises All combined upper respiratory tract nose and Throat infections of which the common cold occurs most fre flu like illnesses and other upper respiratory infections account for about 50 per cent of All acute my three Earold child has Al ready had three colds this is something wrong does he need blood tests your child is nor studies have shown that the average preschool age child has from six to 10 colds a an average adult has from two to four colds colds a nuisance How can 10 colds a year be Normal Arent recurrent colds dangerous colds Are a they dont they Are significant mainly in lost time from work and colds and other upper respiratory infections account for about 30 per cent of absenteeism from school and about 40 per cent of All lost time from How can i Tell the difference be tween a cold and influenza All you can do is make an educated guess based on whats known to be going around in your Community and the health Howard specific symptoms that youve the mos common cold symptoms Are plugged nose and sneeze both these symptoms Are less common and severe with sore Throat is common with both hoarseness is More com Mon with cough occurs with but its worse with if predominant symptoms Are muscle High burning and red and youre More Likely to have influenza or a flu like colds Are caused by viruses right six virus families with some 200 different strains of virus cause symptoms which wed classify As the rhinovirus family seems to be the greatest especially in colds occur when people Are exposed to cold or draft environments this myth goes Back to the Days when Learned peo ple thought that mice came from rags and wheat sacks which Are stored in dark studies have shown that standing naked and wet in a draft Doest increase your chances of catching a which of course Doest mean that you should stand naked and wet in indoors More that Doest make any if its How come colds occur More frequently in Winter because colds Are spread by people and during the fall and Winter months because were indoors we come in closer Contact with More school is another major most colds Are caught at school and then brought Home for the rest of the family to artificially heated and a humidified dry air May dry the linings of the nose making us More susceptible to cold which reminds have you serviced and cleaned your Humidifier yet we catch colds because inconsiderate snotty individuals sneeze and cough on up not studies done with the rhinovirus indicate that spread occurs with prolonged con the kind of stuff youre not Likely to encounter at the office or grocery while it is True that most of the worlds col causing Rhino viruses inhabit the noses of there is Little evidence sup porting the notion that aerosols created by sneezes and coughs spread sneezes and the like contain Little virus and the aerosols dont travel very since the lips and saliva Arent Laden with kissing int a big spreader of its thought that most colds Are spread via hand to hand people Are constantly touching their noses and eyes especially when Treyve got the virus on hands is then passed on to others by touch in one Only five per cent of people caught colds after expo sure to seventy three per cent got them after hand to hand Stop shaking hands and Start fevers Are bad and should be treated mild elevations of body temperature will make your cold go away Many cold viruses thrive Best at around having a mild fever thus May then decrease their ability to so sweating it out int a the views expressed Are those of the a practising while Seiden welcomes suggestions for future he cannot treat specific problems by readers should consult their own Send your column ideas to 145 front Street m5a Tal but the male develops differently in later stages of preg in some this differentiation is not apparent at for this reason All newborns should be examined at if there is any question regarding a Rediat Ric gynaecologist or an endocrinologist should be called write to Ann Landers care of the Winnipeg free if you request a personal include a stamped self addressed los Angeles times Syndicate Horoscope by Jeane Dixon politics might assist Aries career for november Aries March 21april a secret May be revealed to get involved in a political Campaign or Community the contacts you make will help your business and make you feel limit entertainment Taurus april 20may gifts and favors come your Way this a stroke of Luck inspires you to do something great for your you get a second Chance with someone who can boost your financial for gemini May 21june cooperation May not be but you have to Good organizational skills can shorten a difficult children deserve to make some of their 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