Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 105, No. 148, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 1998 Page: 7 of 14
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I Thursday, July 30, 1998
FAMILY LIVING
Perry Daily Journal, Page B-1
Life Made Easier For
Wheelchair Users
RANDY OVERTON, a sophomore student at Oklahoma State University, and a 1997 graduate of Covington-
Douglas High School, is employed for the summer in the maintenance department at C-D school. Pictured,
he is repairing the school awning. (Sara A. Lambert photo.)
Videotaped Presentation
Viewed By Diabetes Group
People In The News
Members of the Noble County
Diabetes Support Group viewed
a videotape at a meeting Monday
night at the First Christian Church
in Perry.
Perry Stephenson, program
chairman, made arrangements for
the video, "Understanding
Diabetes...In Balance/In Control,
Part 1."
According to information pro-
vided by the video, diabetics must
attempt a longer and healthier
life.
There is help for people strug-
gling with diabetes, the video
taped information reflects.
The importance of regular ex-
ercise is one step and a good bal-
ance, along with eating healthier
foods. This helps to get food into
the proper chemical change such
as sugar and get it into the cells.
Glucose is needed to enter
blood cells. In some people, in-
sulin simply is not produced, re-
sulting in type I diabetes. Type 11
diabetes is where there is not
enough insulin produced or the
body reacts to insulin and it does
not get into the cells.
Eighty percent of type II dia-
betics are overweight.
Hy pergly cemia, high blood sug-
ar, and hypoglycemia, low blood
sugar, are checked by glucose
strips or a monitor. Blood sugar
should range between 60 and 80,
although a recent update shows
125 for a high range. The idea of
monitoring is to keep levels un-
der control with medication
and/or insulin injections.
Keeping records of blood sugar
levels is suggested. Record keep-
ing of this sort is helpful to the
patient as well as the physician.
Discussion centered on the new
medication, rezelin, as being one
that needs careful monitoring
by physician and patient because
liver damage is possible. Some
members of the group said they
are taking the medication.
Other discussion focused on
how different each person is
and why individualized treatment
is necessary. It also was noted
how many changes have taken
place in terms of knowledge
about diabetes and treatment and
how much more there still is to
learn.
Present at the meeting were Mr.
and Mrs. Perry Stephenson and
Kathryn Harris, Mulhall. Mr. and
Mrs. Vern Friend. Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Stringer. Ms. Frances
Anderson, Mrs. Leona Elwell and
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Martin.
Perry; and Ferdinand Glass, Red
Rock.
Next meeting is scheduled for
7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24 at the
First Christian Church, Seventh
and Holly Streets, Perry. Glass
will make arrangements for a
guest speaker.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — James
Earl Jones and Tito Puente are
sharing honors from the gover-
nor of New York.
The two are among more than
a dozen recipients of the 1998
Governor’s Arts Awards, Gov.
George Pataki announced Mon-
day. The awards, established in
1966 by Gov. Nelson Rocke-
feller, will be presented in Octo-
ber.
Other honorees includes Mari-
an and Andrew Heiskell, active
in the restoration of historic 42nd
Street theaters in New York City,
and abstract artist and sculptor
Ellsworth Kelly.
As a tribute to the 150th an-
niversary of the Women’s Rights
Convention in Seneca Falls, Ju-
dith Jamison, Tania Leon and so-
prano Beverly Sills will be rec-
ognized for their accomplish-
ments in the arts through the
Governor’s Commission Honor-
ing the Achievements of Women.
By DAVID KINNEY
Associated Press Writer
PAOLI, Pa. (AP) —Used to be,
I getting around was a real hassle
u for Louis DiCave.
I His son-in-law would haul Di-
I Cave’s wheelchair into the back
of his Chevy Tahoe and carry him
I into his wife’s Lincoln Town Car.
1 They would follow the couple
I wherever they were going, drop
off the chair and return later.
′ “Needless to say, we didn’t go
- too many places that were real far
unless our son-in-law was coming
with us to stay,” said Joyce Di-
Cave, 57, of Wilmington, Del.
Going places is a little easier
these days: They have a giant van
delivered, pop open the door by
remote control and watch a ramp
ease into place. Tie down the
wheelchair and they’re off.
Making her life easier is Acces-
sible Vans of America, a Pennsyl-
vania-headquartered network of
handicapped-accessible vans. The
year-old company has tripled in
size since its founding and now
has 21 dealers with agents in 26
states.
AVA-affiliated renters own some
150 vans and account for one-fifth
of the market nationally; they aim
to own 60 percent of the market
within three years.
Along w ith Lexington. Ky.-
based Wheelchair Getaways and
some small entrepreneurs, AVA
fills a niche for disabled people
who can’t afford the $35,000 to
$50,000 vans equipped with low-
ered floors, foldaway ramps and
hand-operated controls. Renting
is more affordable: $69 to $99 per
day, or $460 to $580 a week.
Handicapped people who can’t
get out of their big, bulky w heel-
chairs need the converted vans
in particular, and they can’t rely
on big-name car-rental companies.
The vehicles are far too expensive
and demand much too low.
Smaller renters are taking ad-
vantage of a growing market, par-
ticularly in vacation spots: Cali-
fornia, Arizona, Florida and
Hawaii.
“With the baby boomers com-
ing on board, your lower mobili-
ty problems are increasing 5 per-
cent to 7 percent a year as the pop-
ulation changes,” said Homer
Dennewitz, who owns the AVA’s
Florida dealer.
The advantage of the network is
group buying power: AVA can
market nationally its toll-free num-
ber and buy the expensive insur-
ance at as little as one-quarter the
rate the dealers would pay indi-
vidually.
“Our objective really is to create
a nationwide network," said Russ
Kulp, chief executive officer of
AVA and owner of the Paoli-based
renter. “We provide uniform mar-
keting. uniform products, uniform
service across the nation. And 1
think we’re trying to do a social
benefit: enabling people to drive."
That’s particularly true for those
who don’t use the vans on vaca-
tion, but in emergencies or for
short trips they once had to forgo.
Their trips to their mountain
home in Susquehanna County are
easier. They can go to Penn State
University, where they have old
friends. Even when her husband
was forced to move to a heavier
electric wheelchair with a 30-
pound battery, Ms. DiCave didn’t
hesitate when friends an hour
away in Blackwood, N.J., invited
them to a party.
“I said, ‘No problem, I have
the van,'" Ms. DiCave said. “Oth-
erwise, no way. My son-in-laws
wouldn’t have driven an hour
away and waited for us.”
Now all she has to worry about
is whether their destination is
handicapped-friendly.
EDITOR’S NO TE: Accessible
Vans of America’s number is 888-
AVA-VANS. Wheelchair Get
aways may be reached at 800-642-
2042.
27E
The name of the halibut fish
comes from the word holy since it
was widely used as food on
Christian holy days
Not Exactly the
Picture of
Health?
Let Perry
family physician.
John Loose, D.O.,
help you.
Office Hours:
9:00 \ M --5:00 P.M
Non Wed /’
9:00 A \1 --12:00 Noon
9:00 A.M 7:00 P.M
Births
Emily Elaine Frazier
William and Cindy Frazier,
Perry, are parents of a daughter
born at 11:08 p.m. Monday, July
13, 1998, at Stillwater Medical
Center.
The infant weighed 8 pounds.
4 ounces, and measured 20 1/2
inches in length. She has been
named Emily Elaine.
She has one older brother,
Tristan Rayborn, 22-months-old
Maternal grandparents are
Anita Breen, Stillwater, and the
late Lynn Breen. Ron and Nancy
Frazier, Perry, are paternal grand-
parents. Great grandparents are
Zelma Sullivan and Hazel Frazier,
both of Perry, and Emily Baker,
Santa Rosa, CA.
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Births
Alexandria Leigh Ogden
Mike and Eve Odgen. Norman,
formerly of Perry, are parents of
their first child, a daughter, born
at 12:44 a.m. Wednesday, at
Baptist Medical Center in
Oklahoma City.
The infant weighed 4 pounds,
5 ounces, and measured 15 inches
in length. She has been named
Alexandria Leigh.
Maternal grandparents are Dean
and Rev. Ruth Tipps, who reside
both in Perry and Lamont. Ron
and Monice Ogden, Stillwater,
formerly of Perry, are paternal
grandparents.
Great-grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Tipps, Billings.
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