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THE WEEKEND OUTLOOK February ml Page Features February is Heart and Stroke month Hills Heart and Stroke Foundation will be launching its local campaign with the annual luncheon at North Halton Golf and Country Club this Tuesday with wellknown Georgetown resident Laurent as Mr is an economist and President of the Canadian Manufacturers Association We hope hell attract manufacturers and local residents to hear him speak about what lies ahead said Carol McMurray whos co- chairing the luncheon with Steamer Emmerson residential chairman for the local foundation Last year over 80 people at tended the luncheon raising over for heart and stroke said Mr Emmerson a former mayor of Georgetown and current col umnist with the Hills Herald With the luncheon kickoff other local events will take place in Halton Hills to raise money for Canadas number one killer The Heart and Stroke Founda of Ontario is hoping to raise million throughout the year The money raised will be used mainly to fund critical research and education programs for heart disease and stroke which more lives than any other disease in Canada One of central western On tarios biggest fundraisers is a health and fitness centre in Georgetown Work That Body owned by Laurie Burns Last year through her annual she helped raise for the foundation which in turn awarded her for being the top fundraiser in central western Ontario This year the will be held Feb with two sessions The first one begins at a m lasting to 15 a m and the se cond from to 9 Participants in the aerobathon raise the money through straight donations There is no sponsoring per hour explained Ms Burns Local schools also help raise funds for heart and stroke by part in Jump Rope for Heart Z Bennett Public School in Ac ton kicked off its jump rope with the Burlington Bouncers a team of talented skippers from E Brecken PS in Burlington Ac tons Jump Rope will be on Feb 27 JosephGibbons P and George Kennedy in Georgetown participated in the event last year Money is also raised by volunteer canvassers of which there are about in the area Each canvasser receives a kit giving helpful hints on canvass ing and vital information about heart disease and stroke said Mr And the statistics are frighten Heart disease and stroke claims lives each year which means more than four deaths in 10 are due to heart disease and stroke Of these numbers 27000 deaths are due directly to heart attacks 14000 to stroke and 38000 to other cardiovascular conditions One of the greatest risks associated with heart disease and stroke is smoking High fat dairy products and foods are other risks Proper diet in eluding regular consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables whole grain breads and cereals help reduce the risk The Heart and Stroke MIRACLES OF MODERN HEART AND STROKE RESEARCH J Djmli of Ontario says lives are saved each year due to im provements in diagnosis and treatment and research has helped to reduce deaths from heart disease and stroke by per cent over the past four decades Mr and Ms Improving your odds against Canada killer know how important it is to support the foundations Thats why they are volunteer ing along with hundreds of other local their time to raise funds to help promote new ad vances and lifesaving breakthroughs Firstperson account of heart problems trauma I always thought I was healthy and active person recalls Hamiltonian Derek Hart- well The first inclination I had that anything was wrong was when I had surgery on my lower back in I kept coming in and out of hospital When I went back into the hospital for about the se cond time this was within days of coming out I took a turn for the worse and it was then that my doctors realized that there was something drastically wrong They gave me a lung scan and found the blood clots These were not ordinary blood clots Derek and his doctors figure that the clots were the result of a broken leg sustained decades earlier in a parchuting accident The blood clots had become calcified and were block his pulmonary arteries They gave me a drug called cumidlne for a while but it wouldnt dissolve the clots Derek explains I had this real shortness of breath pains in the chest and very little energy After a lot more lung scans and tests my doctors decided that there was nothing else they could do for me They took me off the blood thinners and sent me home That was alright except that I was very short of breath I still managed to function and go to work though any exertion was an effort as far as breathing was concerned Over time Dereks conditioned worsened By he was unable to do the things hed always en joyed like playing golf or work ing on his cottage Life had become a struggle a continual battle between what he wanted to do and what his body could tolerate Moreover the struggle was taking an enormous toll on his heart Because I couldnt get enough oxygen in the blood the heart was like a pump pumping against a closed circuit The heart was enlarging on one side only It got to the point where it just collapsed and that wouidve been the end The heart couldnt generate the pressure for more than a couple of years By this time Derek was under the care of Drs and Ander son at Hamiltons Henderson Hospital Due in large part to research funding from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of On tario Hamilton is a world recognized centre for the study of blood clots means of diagnosing them and the drugs used to dissolve or prevent them Despite the many advances research has brought the doctors found that there was nothing they could do for Derek His problem one of the many that Canadian resear are still trying to solve The Hamilton doctors were not without hope They knew that research in this problem had resulted in a treatment an ex perimental one in San Diego Through a vast series of tests Hirsh and Anderson decided that It was an operable thing but that there was a certain amount of risk And besides it wasnt even being done in Canada Well at that stage I had nothing to lose and everything to gain because they had only given me a certain amount of time with the strain on my heart So I jumped at the op portunity to go The University of California in San Diego specializes in this one particular operation Theyve developed a technique that nobody else has been able to copy The process that these doctors have developed is very much like open heart surgery where your body is cooled down to a certain extent and your blood goes on by pass explains Derek They open you up and they cut the pulmonary artery vertically along the line into the lungs and from there they have a process whereby they go and gradually work out these blood clots from the lining of your arteries They can get down to what they call the third level of branches Thats as low as they can go because everything gets too small Thats one level more than what theyve ever done in Canada Derek went to San Diego in March was operated on at the beginning of and was out of hospital and home by the end of April The first two months youre pretty weak he reports Youre on oxygen for the first two or three weeks until you can manage on your own From that point on however its nothing but rapid recovery Just recently Derek and his son reshingled the roof of his cot tage Theres no way I even thought of tackling that job prior to the operation Derek states More than just Dereks life was saved saved was the quality of his life Derek credits his recovery to two things the doctors involved and to research Ive supported research most of my life he points out A lot of money has to be spent in research to do anything In some cases the returns are not measured financially but they can be measured in other forms of spinoff benefits For that reason along I support research Medical research is very sive and they dont always come up with exactly what they want but in the majonty of cases they get something thats of benefit to mankind That I think is the name of the game Watch For KNECHTELS Weekly Specials on Page 7 then drop in to Georgetown Food Market Moore Park Plaza Georgetown Money Saving Coupons Available On Page 1 5 Under This Weeks InStore Specials The Burlington Bouncers from Public School in Burlington visited School in Acton to present their skipping routine in support of Jump Rope for Heart a fundraising public school kids lake part in for the Heart and Stroke foundation Bennett students will show off their own skipping skills on Feb which is their jump for Heart competition The Burlington Bouncers travel to various schools and enter skipp ing competitions Some of the skippers are dlan Skipping Champions Herald photo WITH TlflS COUPON SAVE OFF THE PURCHASE OF ONE BAB OF Mi 2 MILK with Coupon without Coupon Valid Only Target Georgetown L target food stores St GEORGETOWN