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Page Twelve Section fflbf Arizona Dailo Star Tucson, Saturday, December 21, 1991 DR.GOTT Crohn's disease is a chronic disorder of the bowels 1991 Newspaper Enterprise Association pathy, not amenable to drug treatment, may be considered for cardiac transplants as a last resort. Q. I'm on a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet and my reading Is below 200. I suffer from severe myofacial pain and during a recent urinary tract infection, my cholesterol level jumped to 266. Since I did not change my eating habits, I wonder if stress and pain could cause the abnormal reading.

A. The cholesterol level can be affected by many factors, including exercise, diet, pain, stress and illness. Assuming the lab didn't make an error, an Increase of more than 66 points would be highly unlikely but possible. Once your infection has cleared up, ask your doctor to check your cholesterol level once again. I Q.

What can you tell me about Crohn's disease? A. Crohn's disease is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of unknown cause that typically (but not invariably) affects the colon and the last portion of the small intestine. The disease affects both sexes equally and usually begins before the age of 40. or biopsy. Treatment consists of cortisone and in some cases drugs, such as cyclosporin, which suppress the immune system.

Antibiotics are useful only when bowel abscesses complicate Crohn's disease. Surgery is occasionally required if intestinal obstruction occurs. Although a few patients recover completely after a single attack of Crohn's disease, the affliction is usually chronic and flares up in cycles. For further information you can write or call the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, 444 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor, New York, N.Y. fl)018; (800) 343-3637.

Q. Please discuss cardiomyopathy. Is this a common disorder? A. Cardiomyopathy is a general term that denotes a disorder of the heart muscle. The affliction is associated with many diseases, including coronary artery disease, hypertension, infections, metabolic disorders (such as diabetes and thyroid diseases), malnutrition, autoim mune diseases, tumors of the heart and alcoholism.

Any disease that affects the heart muscle either directly or indirectly can lead to cardiomyopathy. Thus, this disorder is common. Symptoms, such as weakness and breathlessness, appear when the damaged heart muscle can no longer perform normally. It becomes flabby, stretched and weak, with resulting accumulation of fluid in the lungs, liver and legs. Unless the underlying disease is treated, cardiomyopathy carries a grim prognosis: More than 70 percent of these patients die within five years.

However, with modern drugs (such as Vasotec) to improve the strength of the beating heart and to reduce the cardiac workload, patients with cardiomyopathy can be helped to lead relatively normal, albeit restricted, lives. As I mentioned, control of the causative disease is a prime priority. Patients with advanced cardiomyo- Peter Gott, M.D. Symptoms include chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, weight loss and a tender abdominal mass (the inflamed bowel). Arthritis, mouth ulcers and acute skin inflammation may accompany the bowel disorder.

Crohn's disease is diagnosed by X-ray, colonoscopy Send your questions to Gott at Box 91428, Cleveland 44101. Because of the volume of mail, individual questions cannot be answered. Questions of general interest will be answered in future columns. These 2 families, and others, need help Funerals 1 Seek Find Funerals 1 TEETH The Holiday Sharing Center, housed at El Con Mall, 3601 E. Broadway, is still collecting food boxes and toys on behalf of more than 30 local service organizations that are assisting about 2,000 families.

We'd like to introduce you to two of those families. Neither is in the street, but they are dreadfully close, just as hundreds of families are in Pima County. Both of our families are fortunate to have supportive relatives, friends and neighbors nearby. But times are tough. Their supporters haven't enough money to help make the holidays more secure for Bernice and Victoria, Bertha, Felipe, Michelle and Robert, or for Lise Ann and Jorget Henri and Josephine.

Shirley Pevarnik, Sharing Center coordinator, said gifts and other offers of assistance specifically for Bernice and her family or for Lise Anne and Jorge and their children can be channeled through the center at 795-2532. And please remember that these two families represent the about 78,000 people in Pima County whose family income falls below the federal poverty level. They could use a little help, too. LUNDY, Jonathan Richard David, age 10, of Waco, TX, died December 17, 1991. Survived by parents, Jeff and Tina Lundy; maternal grandmother Carol Reams of Tucson; paternal grandmother, Virginia Lundy of Tucson; sister, ReNee Murray of Waco, TX; brothers, Andrew and Daniel Lundy of Waco, TX.

Graveside service, Saturday, December 21, 1991, 2:00 p.m., East Lawn Cemetery, 5801 E. Grant Rd. Family requests remembrances be made to Jonathan Lundy Memorial Fund, co Bank One, Box 7554, Waco, TX 76714. Arrangements by EAST LAWN MORTU-ARY, 5801 E. Grant Rd.

BALZER, Leo Joseph, born May 18, 1934, in Bettendorf, IA; died December 17, 1991, in Omaha, NE. Me was a former resident of Tucson. Survived by son, Leo of IL; three sisters, Barbara Ma-day ol Tucson, Joanne Mizlo of Arlington, TX, and Mary Ann Parker of Davenport, IA; three brothers, William of Omaha, NE, John of Peoria, IL and Edward of Davenport, IA. Preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Gerald. Private graveside services were held Friday, December 20, in Davenport, IA.

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Interment, Holy Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at ABBEY FUNERAL CHAPEL, 3435 N. 1st Avenue (888-1111) Friday, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. HIDOEN WORDS, LISTED BELOW, RUN FORWARD, BACKWARD, UP, DOWN, DIAGONALLY IN THE PUZZLE FIND EACH WORD. BOX IT IN, Canine Denture Eyetooth Rake Tusk BROWN, Doretha 69, died December 17, 1991.

Sister of Willie Mae Taylor of Tucson, Catherine Reed of TX, Helen Wesley of CA; grandmother of Gregory, Carlton, Vincent and Joey Powell, all of New York; aunt of Rev. Alex Powell, Arthur Powell. Carol Ausberry and Monica Doretha Le-nore, all of CA, Ida L. Crosby of FL and Willean Wilson of Tucson; sister-in-law of Alex Powell of MS; also survived by adopted daughters, Patricia Ann Smith and Alberta Rutledge, both of Tucson. Funeral services, 11:00 a.m., Monday, December 23, at Southside Baptist Church, 1330 S.

2nd Ave. with Rev. Albert Molett officiating. Burial, TMP South Lawn. Mrs.

Brown was a member of Bethlehem Star Chapter 15 O.E.S. and Heriones of Jerico Court 135 P.H.A. Friends may call from 1:00 to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, December 22 at BRING'S MEMORIAL CHAPEL, 236 S. Scott. Fang Cuspid Harrow Wisdom Tooth Sprocket Bicuspid Molar Bridgework Comb Snaggletooth Tomorrow: Play Ball WILCOX, Curtis 79, of Benson, passed away Tuesday, December 17, 1991 in Tucson.

Funeral service, Monday, December 23, at RICHARDSON'S MORTUARY CHAPEL, at 10:00 a.m. Burial, Pomerene Cemetery. Under the direction of RICHARDSON'S MORTUARY. Benson. (C) CS1 191 she said.

"Oh, boy, did he have a drinking problem. He tried to kill me three times, once by getting his dog to attack me, once by stabbing me and once trying to choke me. That's when I hit him in you-know-where and got out of there for good!" Cindy Lou is developmentally disabled. She is in a special school in North Carolina, her mother said. Jorge was born in Nicaragua into a family of mixed nationalities.

At 5, his family moved him to New York City. At 7 they went back to Nicaragua. He was back in New York at 12, in Nicaragua at 17. Finally, at 20, he moved to the States to stay. He married at 21, in Billings, Mont.

The marriage lasted less than a year. He came to Tucson in 1972 to join a brother who already lived here. He worked in various restaurants and for a floor-care firm until 1985, when he went back to New York to see his dying father and stayed awhile. The duplex is their fifth residence since 1988. They want to stay there.

The back yard is large and has playground equipment for Henri and Josephine. Bernice was born in Denver and grew up in the Yuma and Phoenix areas before the family moved to Tucson in 1972. One sister lives in New Mexico, another in Texas. Her two brothers live in the same mobile home park as she and her parents do. "One of my brothers, Calvin, takes us to places like Colossal Cave," said.

"He goes with Felip6 to buy clothes. He takes us camping. "I don't have a social life, really. My friends come here to visit me, but with five kids it can get sort of stressful for them after awhile. "My older kids are my biggest help, especially Victoria, my oldest," she said.

"Hey, I don't hate my life. Really. I just hate the fact that I don't have enough money to do the things I want to do for my kids." Jorge paints small canvases to relax, especially butterflies for Henri. Lise Anne produced a box of bright paper flowers and Christmas decorations that she makes to relax, she said. A grocery, drugstore, hardware shop and variety store are within an easy walk from the house.

But there is no nearby Laundromat, and the family washing machine, bought secondhand when they arrived, has suffered through all their moves. "We like to walk. Walking is good for you, right, but not carrying the kids and loads of laundry. No way," Lise said with a laugh. "When I get really frustrated, I throw things around, break them against a wall," she said.

"I'd rather do that than hurt somebody. I've been hurt too many times myself." "I know my future's going to be better," Bernice declared, "because I'm going to make it better. I won't raise my kids forever like this. I don't know how I'm going to do it yet, but I will do it. "I just can't raise my kids to be AFDC-dependent," she said, referring to Aid to Families With Dependent Children.

"I have a choice, if I go out there and make it. "But I've got a lot of steps to go to get there," she said with a sigh. Continued from Page 5B ter in private homes. She could get back to that, she said, if she could find affordable day care. The state has a program for single mothers that provides them low-cost day care if they're in job training, working or actively looking for work.

"They only take so many applications a day and it's first-come, first-served," she said. "You have to line up at 7 a.m. right near the Salvation Army soup kitchen. I don't have a car and there's no bus from here (Benson Highway near Drexel). "I could go with my mom when she takes my dad to work at 5 a.m., but they don't want me standing outside with my little ones all that time.

I will get there, though. I have to." She has never been so short of money before in her life, she said. She dropped out of high school in Tucson and got married when she was 16. "I wasn't pregnant. As an adult, I don't know why I did it; as a child, I thought I was in love." They separated four years ago, and later she began a relationship with another man.

Until this relationship broke up nearly a year ago, she and the children lived in a comfortable near-northside apartment with Jacuzzis and housekeeping service. They now live in a sparingly furnished single-wide mobile home, next door to her parents, where the rent is $250 a month but the landlord is patient. "I couldn't afford a car, the maintenance, insurance and stuff," Bernice said. "When I can go to work, I'll have to find a way to get there and to get the kids to the day care. "I don't like to get into things, like a car, that I can't take care of right.

Obviously, I never dreamed I'd have this problem when I had my kids." An old car sits in the carport of the duplex across town that Lise Anne and Jorge rent for $350 a month. "It's not ours; that's his brother's car," Lise said, nodding toward Jorge. "I'm getting used to being in it, you know, behind the wheel, so someday I can learn to drive. But I'm not taking it anywhere. No way." Jorge lost his driver's license last April when he had a seizure at the wheel and caused an accident.

"I haven't had a seizure for two years," Lise said. "My medication works. It's epilepsy. Doctors think maybe it came on when I had a really high fever as a child. "That's why my dad took me to France with him when I was 9," she explained.

"He put me in a special school for kids with epilepsy. It was run by nuns. They took me off all the medicines, and I didn't have sei- zures for 10 years, no kidding. "They didn't start again until my older daughter was born in 1979." The daughter, whose father is Pakistani, was born in New York about three years after Lise came back to the States for her grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary and moved in with her mother to stay. She didn't marry Cindy Lou Marie's father, but a man she met shortly before Cindy Lou was born didn't mind being father to someone else's baby and Lise married him instead.

"He had a heart condition and a drinking problem," The World Almanac Crossword Puzzle Answer lo Previous Puzzle 1 In In le In li It I A i i la 1 tl HUEMMER, Kenneth, 42, of Scottsdale, AZ, passed away December 17, 1991. Survived by his beloved wife of 14 years, Ardie; two young sons, Kenny, age 9, and Brett, age brother, Johnny Huemmer of Tucson; sister, Ellen Huemmer of New York. Kenneth and Ardie resided in Arizona since 1975. He was a salesman for Showcase Pontiac in Phoenix, and was formerly employed by Don Mac-key in Tucson. A good Christian and a loving father, he belonged to Grace Chapel Church.

A memorial fund has been established for the family through Grace Chapel, 3214 N. 70th Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Memorial service, Monday, December 23, 11:00 a.m. at Grace Chapel, Scottsdale. Daddy, we love you and we miss you your sons.

CARRILLO, Samuel, 66, of Tucson, passed away December 18, 1991. Mr. Carrillo was married to Betty Carrillo for 43 years. Father of Terry (Albert) La Duke of CA, Mary (Ray) Gore of MO, Ann (Richard) Librado of Tucson, Stella (Tim) Klein of CA, Sam (Irma) Carrillo Jr. of Tucson, David F.

Carrillo of Tucson, Jim T. (Vera) Carrillo of Tucson; also survived by sisters, Minnie (Ray) Padilla of Tucson, Rose Bier of Rl, Inez (Bernard) Klemkoski of Oklahoma City; 17 1 1 iv IE I I 1 1 htMm li IlUiIcIaInIoIi IpIa It grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Visi ACROSS 45 Skier Jean Claude 1 Methods 48 Firearm part 5 Electrical 52 Layer of eye unit 53 Machine part 8 Billow 54 Plaintiff 12 Make well 55 Undiluted, 13 Motorists' as liquor org. 56 Mother of 14 Inheritor Mile. 15 La 57 Popplns Douce 58 Circular 16 UK time motion 17 Merest bit 58 Truck 18 Chats 60 God of love 20 Record of venU DOWN 21 polloi 22 TV co.

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Augustine's Cathedral on Monday, Decem 22 Milk producer 23 Wax 24 Angle of a leaf 25 Sly trick 27 Billy or nanny 28 DID seed 29 Actor Randall 30 Abstract being 32 Draftsman's pattern 36 Year(Sp.) 37 Enthusiasm 39 Actor Ron ber 23. 1991 at 9:00 a Interment to follow at Holy Hope Cemetery. ELLIS, Earle 45, of Tucson, died December 20, 1991. Sur LANE, Frank Joseph, 76, of Tucson, died December 19, 1991. Dear husband of Eloise; dear father of Bill and Elizabeth, Peter and Peggy, Thorn Sr.

and Patrick Lane, Sue and Mark Landy; dear grandfather of Jackueline, Tom and Sheri, Michelle, Mark, Jill, Ashley and Zachary Lane and Kelly and Pamela Landy; dear brother of Winifred and Leo Crause; dear uncle of Peggy and Guy Arant and Pat and Don Miller, all of St. Louis, MO. Memorial services, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., December 21, at VALLEY FUNERAL HOME, 2545 N. Tucson one block north of Grant. 327-6341.

vived by loving wife, Vikki; children, Dawn, Melissa, Donnie, Dean, Kristy and Samantha; four grandchil For Answers Touch-tone or Rotary Phones STUMPED? Call 900-454-3535 ext. code 100 95 per mmun Weston dren; brother, Barry and sister, Lynn. Memorial service at 7:00 p.m., Sunday, December 22, 1991 at HEATHER MORTU ing from 2 y4 -inch-square negatives. He has thousands of them, which he did not destroy but, she said, he intends to one day. "The prints are posterity, not the negatives," Weston told The Associated Press on Monday.

"This is not photojournalism. It's not commercial portraiture." He said he had no regrets about destroying the negatives. "Make that clear," he said. "It's my work." ARY, 1040 N. Columbus (near Speedway).

Continued from Page 5B She is not sure when he took his last 8-by-10. Weston is still a "phenomenally productive" photographer, she said. Since the 1970s, he has been work Audio Another good reason to subscribe 1 5 3 1 5 IS It ift IS MA TJ 73 T5 15 17 jj- 11111 -n sr arprpr if wwrtr si vr 33 35 35 3i Tl 41 tr 4rp 1 '4r irrsrjsr 55 It T-5I 55 55 "57 53 35 "S3 William Least Heat-Moon read by Keith Szara-bajka. Both Books on Tape and Recorded Books have unabridged readings of Heat-Moon's fascinating, trip around the country in his camper, nicknamed "Ghost Dancer." For about the same amount of money it costs to buy Simon Schuster's abridgment, you can rent unabridged versions. And, you do indeed lose a lot in the edited version not just whole towns are gone but the interviews included are usually briefer.

Still, if you haven't got 16 hours for Heat-Moon's quirky, savvy travel observations, three hours is better than none. And don't forget our own Dave Barry's "The Only Travel Guide YouTl Ever Need" (Random House, 1 hour, $11) read by the author. It's pure laugh-out-loud Barry, language clean, imagination irrepressible. My favorite bit was, in a discussion of the long, long lines at Disney World, an identification of the group at the head of the line as "a Cro-Magnon family." Finally, a classic has been released In time to be considered as a valuable gift "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (Harper Audio, 3 hours, $17) read hy Ruby Dee. First published in 1937, Hurston's novel detailing the life of a black woman in the South, is thrilling, disturbing, funny, and real.

Dee's reading is superb. Continued from Page 5B a former advertising executive, and his wife, a generous, joyful cook, bought a farmhouse in southern France and settled in to join the natives in celebrating good food, good wine and good friends. The Mayles are clearly special people, gifted in making and keeping friends. Everyone seems to like them, and so will you. Having said all that, it would seem only reasonable to give another rave review to a continuation of the good-natured accounts of life in rural France: Toujours Provence," (Audio Renaissance, 3 hours, "Toujours Provence" is written by Mayle, but alas, this time, read by Patrick Macnee.

And I say that only because Macnee isn't Mayle, who, more than most author-readers, brings a particular quality in this case wry warmth to his work. If by some chance you started out listening to volume two first then you could be pleasantly surprised when you got to volume one. The other way around, there is a major missing element Mayle himself. More travel for the holidays, Simon ft Schuster has put out a 3-hour abridgment of "Blue Highways' by (e) 1991 by NEA, Inc. 21 $lc Arizona lailn Slar Tucson Citizen.