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I f t # ••MM MMW NORTHWEST HERALD Section B WMNMtly, S«pt*mb«r 15, IMS Pag* IS Nation/World ! » ?*£ • Man survives four-day burial Manhattan mane New hair styles were presented Monday in 'Cannes, France, during the world festival of i J ' < . •' Parents just learning ABCs of school phobia UPI photo hairdressing. Here, the future with the "Manhattan haircut" By William H. Inman United Press International MEXICO CITY - "I felt I had emerged from the womb again," said Ruben Vera Rodriguez, hours after he pulled himself from a tomb of earthquake rubble where he lived off his saliva and urine for four days "And that's what the workers said," Vera Rodriguez said. "They joked about how I,was born once again, given new life. And it was true. Vera Rodriguez escaped from the heart of a shattered building Mon­ day four days after its collapse. Res­ cue workers had given up hope there was life inside. "You think about a lot of things when you are deep in the ground, buried, given up for dead," he said Monday. "I thought about my wife and my children. I have two little daughters and a boy. They kept me warm, thinking about them. "I wondered if they might have been killed in the horrible shaking," he said. "I worried more about them, than me." They lived. And so did he -- barely. "Maybe I was blessed by God. I'm alive when I should have died," he said. "But if God had really liked me," he said, half-]oking, "(God) would have pulled out on the first day." On Thursday/when the Quake hit the Labor Ministry where Vera Ro­ driguez worked as a file clerk, he threw himself onto the floor. The falling ceiling crashed to a halt 2 feet above the floor. "I couldn't raise my knee. I couldn't raise my arm. There was too litUe room," he said. "I was buried alive." It took hours before he heard the metallic clang of rescue workers trying to clear rubble. He heard the office workers cry out for help. He heard rescue workers reply. He felt he would be rescued quickly, but help did not come. "I was very cold at night and very hot in the day. My leg was broken. It must have been smashed when 1 went to the floor the first day. I was in great pain and had to move in many directions before 1 could get comfortable." At dawn of the second day -- he thought It was dawn, but his tomb was pitch black - Vera Rodriguez tried to escape. "1 dragged my leg behind me, wiggling slowly, painfully," he said At last, he managed to find small opening between the floors smashed like a sandwich above him. He wriggled his way through, gash­ ing and tearing his flesh. "I prayed and I prayed and 1 prayed," he said, clutching a packet of coins that had been blessed by a priest and pinned to his heart by relatives visiting his Cruz iRo^a bed­ side. "God must have heard me from the deep below." &y Gayle Y< [science NEW YORK -- Terese Denehan told her 6-year-old daughter Tara to stay put in theL sw York City ipartment for two minutes while she *an out to buy sugar. Two minutes later, Tara had )anged on all the third-floor neigh- >ors' doors screaming hysterically hat her mother was missing. By the ;ime Denehan got back upstairs, the >olice were on the way. "1 didn't know what to do with ter," said Denehan last week in her Jpper West Side apartment. "Tara uldn't leave my side for a minute, first day of school she was on floor crying with diarrhea." Tara Denehan was diagnosed a months later as suffering from chool phobia, a separation anxiety lisorder that pyschologists say af- ects up to 5 percent of all children ationwide, 1 percent to 2 percent of nose severely. Psychologists have recently be- ome interested in school phobia be- ause some studies indicate it may e the first manifistation of agora- hobia, a crippling disorder whose ufferers panic whenever they leave be safety of their homes. Children with school phobia be- ome extremely anxious when sepa- ated from the family because they ave an irrational fear their par­ ts, siblings and even pets will die hilethey are away. The irrational fear is seldom ex- essed by the child, who instead mplains of stomach aches, diar- , sore throats and headaches -- ything to get out of going to 1, camp or even the corner re alone, say psychologists. The ies and pains are real, induced by tfie extreme stress from which the fiiild is suffering. 3 "Kids realize they are being irra- inal, so they cover up," said Ra- lel Gittelman, who heads the only >1 phobia clinic in the country, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital New York. "They are taken from le doctor to another. Only about 10 ;rcent are properly diagnosed and eated." The disorder strikes both boys and Is at alleges, but most cases ir in 12*yeap«lds, said Gittel- an. Often a trauma, such as an ident or a death in the family, touch off the problem, she said. .Julie Kime, a pretty green-eyed tflenager, bore up well when a close fpiend of the family died one sum­ mer a few years ago. But she pan­ icked that fall when she started her sophomore year at Pachek Valley High School in New Jersey. Eventu­ ally refusing to attend a single class, the straight-A student followed her mother to work every day, doing homework while Marcia Kime did bookkeeping for her firm. "We couldn't get her into the school building because she was so sick when she got there," said Mar­ cia Kime. Both Julie and Tara were success­ fully treated at Gittelman's clinic, where they first learned to articu­ late their fears and then overcome them by taking increasingly longer trips away from home with the reas­ surances of their parents. Julie Kime telephoned her father several times a day from school to "check up," said Gittelman. Some children are medicated with the same anti-depressant drugs pre­ scribed to adults who suffer from phobias and panic attacks, she said. Without treatment, most children with school phobia will eventually "grow out" of the problem, she said. But recent studies have shown a high number of agoraphobics suf­ fered from school phobia as chil­ dren. The results are inconclusive, but some psychologists believe school phobia holds the key to se­ vere adult disorders. "We believe many of these disor­ ders may be genetic because they seem to pass from one generation to another," said David H. Barlow, di­ rector of the Phobia and Anxiety Disorder Clinic at the State Univer­ sity^ New York in Albany. "We have to pay a lot more atten­ tion to anxiety disorders of chil­ dren," he said. "It's been a neglect­ ed field." Tara Denehan's mother Teresa can remember suffering from school phobia when she was a child in her native Ireland and has recently sought help for anxiety she feels as an adult. "I am hoping with Tara we can stop it now, when she's still little," she said. "It is so misunderstood. The nuns (at her school) were just terrible, calling her spoiled, and (they were) very disgusted. It would be so help­ ful if people, especially in the school systems, were aware this exists." Tara now attends third grade dai­ ly at a Catholic school near her home and she recently went into a store on an errand by herself for the first time. Final Close Out Sale Tami's Juvenile Furniture 4605 West Route 120 - McHenry, III. 50% of f Cribs. Play Pent. Cradles. Dressing Tables. Car Seats. 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