Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 24, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 40paoe8 vol 122 no 143 publications mail registration 0286 free press St Post get t Post outside oily weekly Home delivery my Post in Winnipeg wkly outside City april 1994 by Tony staff writer Davit Katherine recalls the first seven years she suffered a panic attack at a she Felt dizzy and nauseated and was certain everyone in the restaurant was waiting for her to spill food on she fled in terror and was taken to Grace locked in a Deaden d8 general i was there for four hours a doctor came and took and said go youre but she want now Katherine later discovered she suffers from social a widely misunderstood disorder where people become deathly afraid of almost any kind of social Katherine even trembled with fear just writing a Cheque at the afraid someone would ridicule her for misspelling a Murray medical director of Boniface hospitals anxiety disorders helped conduct a recent University of Manitoba Survey which found that social phobia is More prevalent than once f Lif it used to be thought that two per cent of the population suffered the but the Survey indicated the rate is As High As eight per that Means As Many As Manitoban could be social a lot of these people have a severe Stein but because they Arent causing obvious problems for there not out in the streets going not going to get photos by Windell free press Crews sort through debris after the blast As Homeowner Brian Vanoutrive talks to a police officer lower blast sprays bricks across leaves Home looking like Tollhouse by Nancy Westaway free press correspondent an explosion yesterday morning blew the front Wall off a House in spraying bricks across the Street and leaving the Home looking like a giant nobody was the blast occurred at about a neighbor said Homeowner Brian Vanoutrive had driven his son to when he got Home an hour the second floor Wall had blown off and the fire depart ment was on the it sounded like something had fallen on the said neighbor Heather who lives across from Vanoutrive Home at 461 de la Morenie the fire department came three minutes after we i thought someone had planted a the Gas company also arrived on the scene and inspected the sur rounding but did not ask anyone to debris shot up to the curb on the other Side of the but no cars were said neighbor James like the rest of his did not see the sex and while the explosion shattered Vanoutrive the houses on either Side were not Emile chartier was driving Down the Lane behind the House when he heard the i heard a bang and thought it was a car said Charti then i heard i came Back to take a look but i didst see any i had left the House for 15 min utes and when i came Back the explosion had already said Alda who lives beside the Mark said he was glad his brother want out on the Street at the time of the my brother was just about to go out to play Street a fire in the basement led to the explosion which caused in damage to the the fire department is investigating the cause of the the assistant fire commissioner has ruled out natural Gas said Centra Gas spokesman kids waiting to stay alive helpless doctors watch children die before transplants can be done byte Senaphan staff reporter its an agonizing wait for anyone on an Organ transplant but its far worse for in most they must wait for another child to children just dont die in the same or in the same As said Cathy a transplant coordinator at the health sciences Small children cannot take adult or live Bowel combinations into their said Rob transplant coordinator at University Hospital in one of the major transplant centres in they need Small children can take adult and Large livers can be Cut Down to fit smaller not All families of dead children or adults consent to Organ reducing the number of potential donors even inside Story i no Miracle for a9 last eight children received liver and live Bowel transplants in eleven children died waiting for Organ at the same 152 adults received transplants there but 23 died on the waiting list it can be very said All we can try to do is encourage the consent rate across Canada is about 60 per cent for child and adult Whitehead said at the paediatric intensive care More than half of the families asked to donate their childrens organs say said Murray for some it May just be the emotion of the he families should discuss the Issue of donating organs before a Whitehead once a person is declared brain a family must give consent within a few hours if an Organ is to be removed from the body for a when someone a family has to Deal with its already been that one less thing to worry Whitehead physicians dont always ask families about Organ Symons its not he we Are trying to educate medical health chaplaincy and social workers to childrens organs do not always go to other depending on their they can be transplanted into George and Nora Fontaine of Brandon donated their 12yearold son Joels organs in october they All went to because he was an his organs were big enough for Nora his heart went to a Little the Fontaines said they didst hesitate to consent to the and they even found it helped family and friends Deal with Joels while the health sciences Grace and Boniface hospitals All have anxiety disorder the waiting lists at those hospitals Are Katherine she got much of her help from the anxiety disorders association of Manitoba a self help group where she now teaches a 14week course on anxiety she also took group cognitive behaviour therapy at the Grace where she Learned to set goals for herself and then break them Down into smaller Steps to achieve to get Over her fear of Katherine went to fast food restaurants and just ordered soft after six or seven such she ordered food As eventually she worked her Way up to full course meals in fancier envoys families escape canadians head to Hungary serbs begin pullout from Gorade from the news services Ottawa spouses and children of diplomats at Cana Das embassy in Belgrade were evacuated to Hungary yester Day As nato commanders Drew up plans to bomb serb gunners in the besieged bosnian town of at least 10 dependants left Bel Grade while 18 staff members stayed said Denis a spokesman for the foreign affairs Canadian authorities have also told the 350 canadians Liv ing in Belgrade that they should con Sider leaving the Belgrade is the capital of yugoslav which is dominated by while the Belgrade government is not directly involved in the War in the breakaway Republic of it is closely tied to the serbian Side in the ethnic Early in soldiers began deploying Between serbs and mus Lim defenders of Gorade after serb fighters began their withdrawal from the battered Muslim the serbs had appeared Bent on pushing the 16nation North Atlantic treaty organization to deliver on its threat of air strikes by firing on the town up until the Nat imposed deadline for their serbian backed by heavy moved deeper into the pro claimed withdrawal zone from the North just before noon in what one in observer described As blatantly increased aggressive a prompting nato to seek in authorization for bombing strikes against the in turned Down the what followed was what appeared to be a grudging serb pullback at the voices Tell world of horror a4 Brinkos nato sources in Brussels said yesterday that nato Secretary general Manfred Woerner was Furi Ous with the chief in representative in Yasushi after the two disagreed Over whether to bomb serb guns that had continued to Shell Gorade throughout the the dispute highlighted continuing troubles Between the United nations and nato Over which May authorize air strikes in nato on Friday had threatened the air strikes if the serbs did not immediately end their assault by 2 today pull Back to a Dis Tance of three Kilometres from the cites Centre and permit in troops to by the serbs Are to move their heavy weapons 20 pm Gorade is a strategic Crossroads whose capture would allow the serbs to link to neighbouring Serbia territories that they captured ear Lier in the two year bosnian after violating one ceasefire yes the bosnian serbs at a meeting in Belgrade with Akashi and their serbian president Slobodan to comply with the nato ultimatum and withdraw their forces in and around late sources at the in command said Aerial reconnaissance showed initial signs of a serb pullback to outside the three kilo metre another in military spokesman the serbs Are going dragging their quote of the Day Guys a just let him rest in Matthew a new York former president Richard Nixon death in w Tome Row mainly afternoon my inside Ann Landers d5 Bridge 015 crossword editorials entertainment 014 05 in births is sorta Boord b4 d14 lotteries i ;