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can JFranttero Examiner TTiursday, February 14. 1985 Cfl Jj -Hit ri.i p.vwjr Whaddya mean there's nothing good on I Dwight Chapin TV? Love that endures HIS VALENTINE'S Day, let us celebrate a husband and wife named Margaret Chase and Giovanni Camajant. They aren't young lovers. Both will be 80 this year. And they weren't childhood sweethearts.

They were married when each was 60. ilt was her first marriage. But from the start, it's been a special union, and never more so than in the last four months, vhen their relationship and their lives have been severely tested. Cama jani is a musician and music teacher; Chase 1 ''I 'ii immmmmtmmin am i idkmfggfmmi TrAIDIRS Of THE ICST AS 'l was an English and history teacher at Lowell I ligh School and a Red Cross nurse during World War last year turned her experiences into a book, "Never Too Late." They live quietly In The City and had aged gracefully, until November. That's when Margaret elected to have an implant done in her left eye.

"I'd had trouble with my vision since the early she says. "Glaucoma at first, and then I developed cataracts on both eyes. Last fall, my doctor told me I was legally blind. I decided to have the cataract removed from my left eye and an interocular lens implanted. It's a routine operation.

More than half a million of them are performed every year." But it was not routine surgery for Margaret Chase. She was feeling fine for the first two weeks afterward. She went to the opera and saw more than she'd seen all season. But then she developed the worst headaches she's ever had. Eye specialists II Kyfr Stuff 1 1 1 l.

finally determined she had developed a rare fungus. "Years ago, there was a serious outbreak of this fungus in China Basin," she says, "and there were 13 cases reported in Los Angeles in the mid-70s. But I'm the only person in the country who has it now." There was no comfort in knowing she was a case study. She went back to surgery, in December and again in January, and in the last operation, doctors removed the interocular lens. "I was told that would be very difficult," Chase i says, "but the infection had apparently loosened the plastic lens and it came out rather easily.

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"It's like a miracle," Chase says. The doctors are very hopeful they not only can save the eye but perhaps some of my vision as well as do something about improving my other eye, short of an operation." For that, Margaret Chase thanks not only the Miami researchers but the Presbyterian Hospital trio she calls "the A Drs. Arthur Allen, Richard Abbott and Mark Abrams. They've not only battled with every bit of know-how they have to save her eye, they've done it with compassion. "They've been so committed and concerned, on a personal basis," she says.

"They even came in to see me on Sunday morning." She can see colors and shapes with the left eye now, and can read a little with a magnifying glass. "I was finally able to balance my checkbook yesterday for the first time in three months," she says. Adjustments in lifestyle have been enormous, however. She has been a bookworm all her life, but most of i 1 I ml 1 "A the books are closed to her now. Watching television (iGANDHI (Gandhi "i rH A I I I A irritates her eyes, although she does listen to the MacNeil-Lehrer Report Driving her 15-year-old Volkswagen bug to the grocery store is just a dream at the moment "All of this has been very hard on Giovanni," she says.

"He has to do all the errands for me or with me." Giovanni responds, "All I'm doing is being her seeing-eye dog," and you can tell he cares cares a lot, cares the way he always has. He has bad eyesight, too three-quarters vision in one eye; only peripheral vision in the other but he's the protector now, the stability for Margaret until she recovers. When she leaves the room for a moment, he says, "Frankly, I think she has more guts than I have." And when he leaves the room for a moment, she says, "I have a husband who just couldn't be replaced." Family Circus I- i -1 I i 1 i -ylH' i 5' i --i "Oh no! He brought flowers 'stead of candy!".