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8 The Canadian Statesman, Rowmanvillè, March 17. 1976 Section Two Honored At Lions Club Meeting At the Lions meeting on Monday, March 8th, District Governor Ed Leslie made his official visit to the Bowmanville club, where he has been a member for the past 18 years. As well as being the evening's guest speaker, he was presented with gifts of appreciation by his 'home' club for a job well done. Also honored at the meeting were Ross Stevens, left, who received a plaque for contributing 40 years of service to Lionism, and Frank Cameron, the most recent member to be inducted into the club. Oshawa Seminar Told Fear of Strong Drugs Means Pain for Dying Too many patients in North With "don't worry," she said. through a coronary attack America hospitals are dying But the best way a doctor and know instinctively that they in pain according to Mary nurse can handie the questions are dying and do not talk to the Vachon, a mental health when they arise is to talk doctors and nurses because consultant with the Clarke openly about them with the they are in a state of shock, Institute of Psychiatry in patient. she said. Toronto. Doctors and nurses are reluctant to use strong drugs such as morphine to kill pain because they are afraid that the patient will become a drug addict, she said. Mrs. Vachon, RN, MA, was the speaker on March 8 for the fourth seminar in the Care of Dying and the Family series. Her topic in the series sponsored by the Oshawa General Hospitai's interdisci- plinary planning committee was "The Patient - What's it like to die?" "We must get over some of our hangups and meet the patient's needs," she said. "When a patient is well medicated, there isn't a lot of pain. I don't think we do a good job generally on medi- cation." People who are dying have a strong feeling of fear as they approach the time when they will die, she said. They are concerned with whether they will die, she said. They are concerned with whether they will lose weight, go bald, whether people will still care about them and how much patience their families will have with them. Their biggest concern is the amount of pain that they will have to face, Mrs. Vachon told the audience in the hospital's cafeteria. Many nurses will answer the patient's questions about pain When they talk freely about the patient's condition, it can sometimes help prepare the person for his eventual death and may mean less suffering later, she said. The attitude of the doctor and nurse could be especially helpful in cases of patients who lose bodily func- tions such as walking, and who begin to think "now that I know I can't walk, I can't stand to be around a hospital," she added. The speaker advised people with relatives who are dying, to stay with them as much as they can because another problem the patient faces is "tremendous isolation." Cancer patients, she said often complain that they are ignor- ed by their relatives and friends. "Don't stay away from them", she said. "Go and see them. Ask them if they want to talk. Always be available if they call for help." But she also recommended that people closely associated with a dying relative take a break for a day or two sometimes, to come back to the patient more refreshed. In some American hospit- als, as therapy treatment for cancer patients, they are given greater privileges such as the Ireedom to use the communal dining room, wear street clothes and make their own beds, Mrs. Vachon said. Some patients who are going "Those who live to talk about it say that they had their whole lives flash before them instantly," she said. As an example, she describ- ed the experience of one woman who suffered a serious haemorrhage and claimed to have died for an instant. She said she felt herself going into "a beautiful place with green grass, lilting music and blue skies," when she was pulled back by someone who gave her a drug," Mrs. Vachon said. that "they were trying to pull me out of this beautiful place and I objected." Also commenting on the subject of homes for the aged, the speaker told the hospital gathering that an elderly person can enter a nursing home for two reasons, either they can choose to go freely or they are forced into it. If they are motivated by the former reason, there are fewer problems than when they are sent to a home forcibly, she said. Older people in nursing hores can develop serious problems when they are ignored by their friends and relatives. A recent survey in Toronto involving 175 widows, indicat- ed that funeral directors were more helpful to them in their bereavement than either doctors or clergymen, who made up only 47 per cent of the WE HAVE THE BET DG-IT-YOURSELF B00K AROUND. Your 1975 Income Tax Guide has been written to make completing your tax form less difficult than you might think. In most cases, all you have to do is follow the blue section starting at the front of the guide. It will lead you through the tax form and schedules step by step. visits to them, ¯Mrs. Vachon said. In her observations of dying people, she has seen that people who believe in an afterlife appear to have less difficulty dying than others do. Agricultural Calendar March 17 - 18 - O.P.P.M.B. Annual Meeting, Inn on the Park, Toronto. Wed. March 17 - Ontario Potato Conference - Holiday Inn, Cambridge. Wed. March 17 - Ontario Apple Conference - Airport Holiday Inn, Toronto. Thurs. March 18 - 7:30 p.m. Food Forum, "Round the World Dining" at Maple Grove United Church Hall. Thurs. March 18 - 10 a.m. General Eastern Breeders Meeting, Kemptville College. March 19 - 21 - Provincial Junior Farmers Meeting, Prince Hotel, Willowdale, Ontario. March 23 - 26 - Ottawa Valley Farm Show - Ottawa. March 23, Tues. - Ontario Beef Cattle Performance Annual Meeting 6:30 p.m. Holiday Inn, Oakville.. Tues. March 23 - 7 p.m Durham F.A.O. Annual Meet ing and Banquet. Cartwrighi Community Centre. Wed. March 24 - 10 - 3:30 4-F. "Action Day" - Registratior for the 4-H Agricultural Pro gram at Kirby Public Schoo. (west of Hwy. 35 and 115 ai Kirby). Thurs. March 25 - Statior Tested Boar and Home Tested Gilt Sale 2 p.m. Stratford Fairgrounds. Regular Boai Sale R.O.P. Station, New, Hamburg at 1:30 p.m.' Thurs. March 25 - Durham Holstein Club Bus Trip - Meet at Agricultural Office at 8:30 a.m. March -2e - 27 - Canadian Swine Breeders Assoc. Annual Meeting Edmonton, Alberta. March 28 - 30 - Ontario Institute of Agrologists Annual Meeting - at Gulliver's Travels Motor Inn, Stoney Creek. April 1- 2 - Test Station Open House and Private Treaty Bull Sale, Arkell Bull Research Station. April 1, Thurs. - 9:30 a.m. Swine A.I. Course, OMAF Building, Brighton. Thurs. April 1 - 6:30 p.m. Durham Milk Committee Annual Banquet and Dance, Newcastle Community Hall. Tues. April 6 - Durham D.H.I.A. Annual Banquet, Meeting and Awards 12 NOON - Orono United Church. April 6 - 7 - Egg Producers Annual meeting at Inn on the Park, Toronto, Ontario. April 9 - Eastern Breeder's Beef Day - Kemptville College. April 9 - 9:30 a.m. Regional Milk 'Committees meet at Peterborough. April 10 - Central Ontario Rabbit Breeders Show - Lack- han Centre, Port Perry. April 17 - Millbrook Lion's Club Pancake Festival - Russell Kennedy's Bush - Millbrook. April 21 - 6:30 p.m. Durham Central Agricultural Society Banquet - Orono United Church - L.G. Brown, guest speaker. When you finish, check your calculation for accuracy and include all your receipts with your return. Go on. Do it yourself. See how difficult it isn't. Revenue Canada Taxation Hon Bud Cuten Minister Revenu Canada Impot L'hon. Bud Cullen Ministre People once believed that goats had their beards comb- ed by the devil once a day.