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18 The Canadian Stalesman, Bowmanvillc, Wednesday, November 30,1994 St Stephen's Fundraiser Nets $10,000 Historic Gall Bladder Operation at Hospital The 1994-95 Parent and Teacher Association fundraiser at St. Stephen's Stephen's Elementary School was a tremendous success, having raised close to $10,000. Pictured above with some of the seasonal items sold are students Alisha Carrington, Nicole Xavier and Travis Dal- lairc. More Four Way Stops For Busv Intersections by Laura J. Richards Two all-way stops will be put into place along Clarington roadways roadways soon. The first will be at the intersection intersection of Hancock and Nash Roads and die other is to be at Leskard Road and Concession 7. Public Works Director Walter Evans told The Statesman on Tuesday Tuesday afternoon,'Nov. 29, the last fatal accident at the intersection of Leskard Leskard and Concession 7 happened in 1989. Soon afterwards, crews from the Public Works Department "lightened "lightened the comer" by cutting back trees to increase the visibility. They also placed over-sized stop signs for north and southbound traffic on Leskard Leskard Road. A recent collision occurred between between an east-bound vehicle on the Seventh Concession and a northbound northbound vehicle on Leskard. Clarington Council voted to have two extra stop signs erected, as well as a flashing red warning light overhead. overhead. In the Courtice area, there will be a four-way stop at the intersection of Nash and Hancock Roads. On Monday evening, Ed Theriault, Theriault, a resident of Nash Road, appeared appeared before council to inform the members about the traffic on the road. He told councillors the traffic problems are "getting worse." A number of precautions taken to prevent collisions have led to other difficulties. Theriault noted when the Public Works Department raised the level of the road 18 inches "it flooded my driveway." Then, "a couple of weeks ago when I was checking my mail box, a car drove by and flipped." A number of close calls for nearby nearby neighbors and accidents for "seven "seven cars in the last five years" have prompted Theriault to approacli council. "It is a dangerous intersection," he added. He told councillors: "a caution light won't slow people down." He said they use Nash Road as a raceway." raceway." Theriault estimates that some vehicles vehicles hit 150 kilometres at Hancock Road. One solution would be to make all intersections on Nash Road allway allway stops, lie suggested to Councillor Councillor John O'Toole when asked for a way to solve the problem. Before the councillors voted in favor of adding two additional slop signs at this intersection, Councillor Mary Novak noted: "The municipality municipality owes it to the residents of Nash Road." Also, the Department of Public Works has been asked to examine the traffic problems along the entire length of Nash back to council. Road, and report by Lorraine Manfredo Bowmanvillc resident Nina Beat- tie had the honor recently of being the first patient at Memorial Hospital Hospital to have her gall bladder removed on an out-patient basis. While joking that she wouldn't exactly "recommend" the surgery to anyone, she calls the laparoscopic procedure a relatively painless experience, experience, "not nearly as scary as she first thought." Laparscopic surgery is done via a television monitor, with cameras, lighting, and instruments inserted through small incisions in the inflated inflated abdomen. The procedure has Patients would stay in hospital for five days. Now the stay is one night or on an outpatient basis. been used at Memorial Hospital for about one year, but Beattie's case marks the first time a patient has gone home on the same day as surgery. surgery. Heading into the operating room two weeks ago, Beattie admits she was apprehensive. "I was shaking. Tears were rolling rolling down my face as I was going down the hall." Dr. Paul Hardy, the surgeon heading a team of three doctors and two nurses in the laparoscopic operation, operation, said such reactions are not unusual. unusual. While Hardy says recovery in hospital is very good, he understands understands that some patients prefer to recover in their own homes. Nina Beattie agrees, saying this may be especially true for independent types who don't like to be coddled. Her ■ own gall bladder surgery was performed at 8 a.m. "Later, I woke up in the recovery room and I was fine. I was amazed. I was home by six o'clock with a cup of tea." Three tiny entry sites arc now healing on her abdomen where the camera tubes and instruments were inserted. Her scars will be minor, compared to the eight-inch incisions common in gall bladder operations years ago. "Previously, patients would stay in hospital for five days. Now, the stay is one night or perhaps on an outpatient basis," Dr. Hardy stales. "The real advantage is in the recovery," recovery," he goes on to say. "Laparoscopic "Laparoscopic surgery allows the patient to go back to work quickly. Normally, after a big operation, it's six weeks before the patient can do any heavy lifting. Now, it's about one week." Nina was back to work at National National Trust the day after her operation. She was a little beat, but willing and able. "There's no loss of money this way. A five-day stay would have been really inconvenient," she says. The first laparoscopic surgery was performed in France about 1988, Dr. Hardy says. Since' then, the procedure has replaced open abdominal abdominal surgery as the alternative of choice. The $50,000 equipment at Memorial is used approximately twice weekly, mainly for gall bladder bladder operations. It could be used as often as three times a day. "Doctors look at a TV screen to see what they're doing with the instruments," instruments," Dr. Hardy says. The view is magnified and the light is better than in conventional operations. operations. A three-dimensional view is now offered via an updated laparoscopic laparoscopic unit where the surgeons wear special glasses and watch images created by a dual camera mounted on tubes. The price tag for this new machinery is about $60,000. Dr. Paul Hardy, surgeon, and operating room nurse Louis Swain Hardy predicts Memorial Hospi- show off the laparoscopic equipment used in abdominal surgery at tal's laparoscopic equipment may be Memorial Hospital. Recently, Dr. Hardy performed the first out- used for hernias and other abdomi- palient gall bladder operation at the local hospital. The patient was nal surgery in the next couple of back to work the next day. y 631 " 5 - v ; lf : fijlF if jfe 5 iy p r 7,-? wf We'll any competitor's price on exhaust by 90-Day Deferred Payment Plan Available! 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