Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1949 — Page 19

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~incased in an iron Jung, fighting the dread battle against polio? In this dispatch a father (who is also a newspaperman) tells a

story that has been a grim experience for thousands of U. §, parents this year, and makes it clear why the Polio Epidemic Emergency Fund must raise $14,500,000—~immediately, Bradley Joe Sveen, son of the Northwest editor of the Fargo, N. D., Forum, has been in a respirator since Aug. 17. Both arms and legs are Seriously involved, but he is slowly winning his. ight

Young

with the help of doctors, nurses, life-saving machinery—and the

Infantile Paralysis,

money to pay for it all—provided by the National Foundation for

By LLOYD W. SVEEN, Written for The Times and NEA Service

FARGO, N. D., Sept, 22.“

set the respirator!”

The doctor darts back to the hospital room where my 4-year-old son, Bradley Joe, stricken with polio, writhes in an oxygen tent, The iron lung is wheeled in as doctors and nurses carry Brad

from his bed.

His face is grey. There is no perceptible breathing.

My wife, Dorothy, stands beside me, hands clenched. “Hurry,

hurry, hurry!”

He lands a blow. You try to keep a step ahead of him, but you don't

‘know where he's going to punch

next.” ! " ” » THE IRON lung huffs on, Brad lives by Intravenous feedings until the wonderful day comes when again he can swallow normally. Penicillin shots are administered daily not to fight the polio virus,

for there is no known medicine -

which can comquer it-—but to ward off pneumonia, ' “This must be costing a lot of money.” 1 sald one day to the hospital administrator, " “There is no charge for the fron lung,” he said. "The respirators in Fargo were. purchased by the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and

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vs. Polio: ‘Thank God For That A Father Tells What

~~ heavyweight ehamp. EDITOR'S NOTE: What's it like to see your son—or daughter

Bulbar. polio only rarely is paralyzing to the limbs, but Brad sustained that also. Hot pack treatments began. “Where do you get the hot pack machines?” 1 asked a nurse, “The National Foundation,” came’ the oft-héard answer,

IT WAS the first of the month, The bills piled up. Hospital $418, for 16 days. Oxy-gen-—-$155, the private room needed: because a respirator. takes up so much space, $136, and other charges. i Special nurses every hour$550, They earned every cent of it, with constant devotion and vigilance to the patient. The doctor's bill isn’t in yet, but he, too, “deserves a life and death fee

it's only ‘one case of polio. In. this, the worst epidemic year in the United States, with £0,000 cases anticipated for the year, is it any wonder the National Foundation's funds are exhausted? What lies ahead for my son?” Long days of recuperation, of hot packs and treatment including special nursing. How many can pay such bills with-

out lowering their standard of |

living?

Anyone wonder why the Na- |

tional Foundation has been

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That bill. more than $1000, is only for the first 16 days and

The attendants snap the re. | spirator cover shut. Doctors fit the collar around Brad's little | [| meck. All you can see is the * curly head with the ashen face | #0 motionless. The electric cord is plugged in. The rhythmic huff and clank of the bellows on. the respirator begins, Fear seethes inside vou, until vou are breathing hard and fast, trying to help your boy's lungs get life-saving oxygen he . | needs so terribly fast, | | + You ‘are beseeching God in« coherently, * trying to sustain your wife at the same time. A doctor comes over. “I think | we are winning.” You look at the little head. A nurse holds: an oxygen mask above Brad's colorless lips.

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n » = LATER --agonizingly later the grey little face gets a pale pink. Then slowly the cheeks are the healthy tan you knew so well. Brad opens his eyes, feels oxygen tickling his face. ! “You dummy. You dummy, take the dumb thing off,” he says, ho «Your eves are bot. mais, ‘| |” The doctor 4sdys fo Brad: “Good boy,” then turns to you. “He's out of immediate danger, thanks to the respirator.” The respirator—the iron lung which first struck terror in your heart, becomes a close friend, because it is bréathing for your boy. Your boy who _has bulbar polio, | You take up your vigil outside the door, and thank God for that iron lung, and the doctors and nurses who are watching Brad as if he were their own. You remember how hopeless it seemed -until the Fargo |

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YOU REMEMBER the tele~ phone call you got that day ‘from the chapter: * “There are | two things we don’t want you L: to wort} about. Ones; the | medical care, it is as good here ( as it is anywhere. The other is | money. We will pay for eyerything where the cost would i force you to lower your ordinary living standards.” One terrible night your son begins to have trouble swallowing. He suddenly is out of step { with the respirator. Color drains from his face, Doctors work feverishly, deftly. "The room with the iron lung blurs. "A doctor finally | says, “He's snapped out of it.” “Are there nothing but crises | with polio?” you ask brokenly, He said wearily: “Fighting polio. is like climbing into a boxing ring blindfolded against a

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