Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 90, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 December 1981 — Page 4

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 22,1981

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Kleptomaniac puzzled by neurosis seeks help

DEAR ABBY: I’m 15 and an only child. My family is upper middle-class and I guess you could call me a straightlaced conservative teen-ager. For the last six months I have been on a shoplifting binge. It’s not peer pressure. I’m always alone when I do it. I never go into a store intending to steal, but I immediately look for floor walkers and mirrors. I usually have enough money to buy whatever I need, so I can’t understand why I take things. (I will buy a pair of panties and steal a pair.) I’ve even taken stuff I have no use for. If I tell my parents, they’ll never trust me to go anywhere. Please don’t suggest that I talk to a priest. I just couldn’t. I’m getting scared, Abby. I hate to leave the house for fear I’ll go into a store and steal something. You may print this if you think it might help somebody else, but please don’t use my right name or town. LIGHT-FINGERED IN lOWA DEAR LIGHT-FINGERED: You could be a victim of kleptomania a persistent neurotic compulsion to steal without economic motive. Kleptomania can be cured with treatment. The fact that your conscience bothered you enough to write to me proves that you are not a common thief. If you absolutely can’t tell your parents, please talk to your school counselor. If you’re to be helped, you’ll have to reach out for it.

Sterilization

Birth control that is no longer 'tried and true'

(c) 1981 Chicago Sun-Times WASHINGTON Women were put on notice Friday that the sterilization technique sometimes known as “tying the tubes” does not always work. In an unusual step apparently occasioned in part by malpractice lawsuits, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) issued an official statement cautioning

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that “between 1,300 and 3,900” of an estimated 650,000 women who undergo tubal sterilization this year “will later find that they have become pregnant.” Dr. David A. Grimes of Emory University, Atlanta, a member of ACOG’s committee on gynecologic practice, said that women should understand that this type of sterilization is “almost, but not quite, 100 per-

DEAR ABBY: I recently ordered a birthday cake from a high-class, well-known bakery. It is famous for its beautifully decorated cakes. When I went to pick up my cake, it was setting on the display counter, uncovered no cellophane, tissue, or anything at all to protect it from the possibility of contamination. The bakery was crowded, and people were leaning over the cake as they were being waited on. One child, about eye-level with my cake, had a bad cough, and she was coughing and blowing her nose not six inches from the icing on my cake! Abby, I am not a fanatic about germs, but I do think this is a very unsanitary practice. I immediately lost my appetite for that cake, and when it was served that evening I couldn’t take even one bite. If bakeries want to display their work, shouldn’t they protect it? I haven’t mentioned this to anyone else for fear of appearing foolish. Also, should I let the bakery know how I feel? SQUEAMISH IN BALTIMORE DEAR SQUEAMISH: You would be doing the bakery a favor by mentioning it to them. I agree, bakery goods should be covered. And your complaint together with this item should cover it.

cent effective.” Grimes, who is also on the staff of the federal Centers for Disease Control, did the basic search of medical literature on which ACOG’s warning statement was issued. He said there appear to be three causes of apparent failure in tubal sterilizations. One cause, he said, is that the woman is pregnant but at such an early stage of gestation that she does not know it. This apparently happens in 2 to 3 operations out of 1,000, Grimes explained. A second cause, he went on, is traceable to “technical problems or abnormalities,” including “errors in procedure” in other words, doctor error. Third, “a reopening of the tubes may occur as a result of the body’s normal healing process,” Grimes added. Altogether, 2 to 6 women per 1,000 who are sterilized subsequently will become pregnant, the medical literature indicates. Women to whom this has happened have become “so upset that some have instituted lawsuits,” Grimes said. He disclaimed knowledge of the number of such suits that have been filed. “When women consider tubal sterilization as a method of fertility control, they need to be aware of the benefits, risks and likelihood of success of the proposed operation and its alternatives,” Grimes said. When asked if it was not the

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doctor’s responsibility to lay out all these factors to the patient in understandable terms before undertaking any form of treatment, Grimes agreed that this is indeed true. Two forms of tubal sterilization are most widely used. Both involve surgical entry into the abdominal cavity and the locking of the fallopian tubes, which are the passageways through which eggs pass from the ovaries to the uterus. One is called the Pomeroy method. A small incision is made in the abdomen and sterilization is then Accomplished either by tying off or cutting away a segment of each tube. The other is called laparoscopy. A small telescopelike device called a laparoscope is inserted through the abdominal wall, giving the doctor a view of the tubes, which are then either burned shut with electric current or clamped with a small ring or clip. Laparoscopy is considered the safest method of tubal sterilization, Grimes said. The risk of death about 1 death in 25,000 operations is less than half the risk of death from childbearing. But there is always the slight risk of pregnancy after any form of sterilization even when the husband has undergone vasectomy and women should become acquainted with this fact, Grimes summarized. END

By Bil Keane