The Olathe Daily News from Olathe, Kansas • 16

W-iiiS Vt --A kaMCl rf-'j sv PAGE 8B Aw a- if w' THURSDAY July 4 1991 The road backto respect Tom Hynes Daily News Columnist You may be feeling your age this Fourth of July if you still remember how people in positions of authority used to be held in respect by most everyone Tm thinking about school teachers police clergy and other public figures This decline of respect may have come about in the 1960s or maybe it just happened so gradually it be pinpointed Yet a change did occur in how the public looks at these positions and die people who hold them A few of these people still command respect but this is an exception rather than a rule arid is usually limited to certain individuals rather than for all those in such positions We have seen the change of respect for candidates for office in the dirty tricks and negative campaigning of recent elections evidence from the public arena but look closer at the home school and community levels Remember the respectful attitude children used to have for their parents? The home may still be the father 'seas tie but he sure lost his kingdom when it comes to reaction from his children Far loo often pure and plain disrespect If the family is still considered the basic building unit for society better start looking for a more substantial foundation because in trouble Authority and respect for that authority are important parts of society Just beyond the family level our leadership exists by virtue of the authority we give it If more and more members of our society continue to lose respect for that authority figure we have a fracture in the strength of society Churches have always supported the family as a basic building blodt both of society and the church itself It seems the family and church can never exist without an interaction of respect and support between them Yet seen things happen in the clergy which have turned many away from old-time respect Public figures both those elected and salaried by their actions have given cause to question their integrity and worthiness of trust Maybe this is one of the factors contributing to the lack of interest on election day Someone or some group needs to come forward to aid in getting us back to healthy respect for authority Older citizens can begin to set an example You may see a few smiles of you really serious?" but the results would be positive i' "v'- 'i1 DwKnpfThtMyNww Inatnictor Nancy GabrM (MQ raada a atory about toddy boars to (from left) Tyrone DanMs a Ranlaha Watson 5 George Brown 8 and Jamie McCarley 8 as atudentobeerver Linda Rogero and family coordinator Mary Kay Scanlon look on JLhis is not a survival budget With AFDC medical and food stamps she still does not have an income that cones up to what the government calls survival level 9 Shirley Kelso Catholic Family Services director a client Family THE OLATHE DAILY NEWS l' V'- v' iy than Betty is trying to survive on an annual income of $6540 "She has food stamps which translates to $300 a month but she buy diapers tampons shampoo toilet paper or anything non-edible with food stamps" Kelso said average one-bedroom apartment in Johnson County is $420 per month She has a medical card through SKS but you can still see the shortfalL This is not a survival budget With AFDC medical and food stamps she still does not have an income that comes up to what the government calls survival leveL" While Betty studies every Thursday morning her children attend a new headstart-type program of early literacy and social skills in an adjacent room at Catholic Social Services -VISTA volunteer Dot McCaskil who has been assigned to Project Finish works at CSS each week with other volunteers to teach about 10 children while are trying treatment! aa varied aa pressurized oxygen red pepper extract and bright Ighto to oaae the pain fear of the next said Dr Ninan Mathew chairman of the organizing committee He called dusten most excruciating fixm of headache Standard treatments include drags such as lithium and ergotamine as wen as oxygen inhalation so abort or shorten attacks Patients also may be advised to control their anger and avoid alcohol volatile chemicals excessive exercise and changes in their sleeping habits However about 20 percent of patients "A 'a 4' continuation grant for 1991 The program provides basic education and GED preparation for homeless adults on site at Catholic Social Service and provides life skills training to CSS staff After-school tutoring is provided for children of homeless adults and a family coordinator trains adults in parenting skills 1 Betty now lives in a home provided by Hands of Hope a transitional living program of Catholic Social Services And she attends 12-step Al-Anon and other self-esteem building programs offered locally will eventually earn her GED degree and she and her children are participating in the new program which teaches basic life skills During die sessions Betty leans skills such as housekeeping grocery shopping and nutrition and how to stretch her limited budget According to 1991-92 data poverty level for household of five requires an annual income less 1 their parents study "Dot and I are working to develop a series of in-home support which will in- elude areas like budgetings home management enrichment with children and job Kelso said starting with one component at a tune with a 4- to 6-week lesson outline When in place role will be to recruit and train volunteers to teach the program" Eighty percent of the families who turn for help to Catholic Social Services in Olathe are like Betty single mothers without jobs educations support or homes The Hands of Hope Rinsitianal Living Program of Catholic Social Sendees pro- vides seven units for homeless families in Olathe Two of the units are owned by the City of (Bathe at a duplex called Hope House which opened in December 1968 The other five are leased through die federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) year we had a mom and dad and three little boys living in a Pontiac Sun-bird at Cedar Lake" Summer is the most critical time for homeless families with children are out Of school and are without the nutritious meals they were served during the school year Their families are on the move trying to better their ritiwriniw During the summer it gets really crazy around here in the Kelso said seem to respond to any of these treatments and surgery may be recommended The experts presented a series of reports Wednesday on research into new ways to treat duster headaches Several examined the effects of capsaicin the active ingredient in red pepper In one study headache sufferers got dramatic relief when a capsaicin solution was applied to the nostril on the side of the head where the headache occurred When it was applied to the other nostril there was no similar relief In another study patients who had capsaicin ointment applied to their temples were headache-free during days when they normally would have had pain The ointment raised the temperature at their temple which normally experiences a heat loss during duster attacks Ninan said it was too early to tell if capsaicin would be effective in treating duster headaches but that it deserves further research Capsaicin cream is sold over the counter under the trade names Zostrix and Axsain for the relief of chronic pain from conditions including shingles diabetic neuropathy and arthritis Another study found success with use of a pressurized oxygen in cases where normal-pressure oxygen foiled Patients who inhaled the hyperbaric oxygen got pain relief within an average of six minutes Researchers cautioned that the hyper and Well-being Lesle Frost Few people consider the needs of the homeless to be a Johnson County prob- Ian But in one month alone Catholic Social Services (Bathe was approached by as many as eight homeless families and 23 families living with friends or rel-adves And in the summer months the numbers of homeless families needing help increase Betty is the single parent of one of these families She has four children ages 2 4 5 and 14 She has been out of the battered shelter for 12 months and receives monthly aid of $525 per' month which will increase this month to $545 She has no education no Job skills and no home But she ha one thing that will help her eventually make it on her own She has a willingness to learh what our program is all about" said Shirley Kelso director of Catholic Social Services in (Bathe an agency which recently joined forces with Johnson County Community College Project Finish to educate homeless families in basic life skills with the help of a federal giant The Case Management service of Catholic Social Services and the Family Literacy program of Project Finish were funded by a McKinney Adult Education Orant in September 1989 and a Your Health Vacdne linked to health risk IkitaalMnai WASHINGTON DPT a common childhood vaccine may be related to rare cases of acute allergic reaction protracted crying shock and seizures experts say in a report released Wednesday by the Institute of Medicine The study said there was enough evidence to establish a relation" between the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus DPT vaccine and a sudden rare and life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis A causal relationship also was found between DPT short and what the committee called protracted inconsolable crying The reaction has been described as screaming or cerebral cry" that infants may start a few hours after the inoculation and continue for up to 24 hours The committee also found a causal relationship between vaccines for rubella or German measles and acute arthritis a transient type of joint disease There was leu strong evidence the committee said connecting rubella vaccine with chronic or long-term arthritis Eleven experts on the committee spent 20 months reviewing studies on the relationship between DPT shots and 17 adverse reactions They also studied the effect of rubella vaccine on three adverse reactions the a of the the a Progress made treating painful duster headaches baric oxygen treatment is expensive and-must be administered in a special com-press ion chamber but said it might be useful for patients who respond to I anything else Dr Lee Kudrow of the California Med- ical Ginic for Headache in Encino ffriif- reported some good results after altering I sleep cycles by exposing headache patients to bright lights But he cautioned it was too early to tell if the results were due to the light therapy or mere coincidence Kudrow said he suffers from cluster headaches himself but his problem has been in remission for six years now Mathew said surgery is a last resort One operation involves using radio frequency waves to heat and destroy the pain-carrying fibers in the brain's trigeminal nerve while -leaving other functions of the nerve intact Of 60 patients who underwent the 1 operation 75 percent had excellent results although some lost sensation in the forehead and eye area better than having four or five duster headaches every day for the rest of -their Mathew said I Certain characteristics are common among duster patients researchers say In men these include a lion-like bee large body and ruddy complexion Sufferers also -may be hard workers passive in demeanor and rarely express their feelings Many -male cluster patients are moderate to heavy smokers TtalaMBUMPiOT WASHINGTON Hie worst headaches migraines the piercing cluster headaches that most often strike men sometimes day in and day out for weeks or even months The cause of the condition continues to baffle physicians 150 years after it was first identified But doctors at the International Headache Congress reported Wednesday some success with new treatments using everything from pressurized oxygen to red pepper extract and bright lights pain of duster headache is one of most severe pain conditions known to mankind Dr Karl Ekbom of the Karol inska Institute in Stockholm told the congress a gathering of 1000 headache 'experts from 43 nations and the largest conference ever on the subject suffering of the patient is Ekbom said better treatment is challenge for an of Cluster headaches affect about 1 percent the population and about 80 percent of victims are men Severe pain is felt on one side of the head usually in and around eye Attacks last 30-45 minutes and occur several times a day for weeks or months at time The pain is so intense sufferers have been known to consider suicide during attacks Some patients suffer from chronic cluster headaches that can last for yean at a time Between attacks live in mortal 3 i.