Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Pat Taylor
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Wilkes-Barre Friday afternoon.
Cliff Robertson
Dallas Post/Ed Campbell
Taylor
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for air. She had to rest before
continuing up the stairs. For two
years, Taylor had been suffering
neck, face and arms. During one
angina attack in 1978, Taylor experi-
enced such excruciating pain that
she literally ripped her own blouse
off in reaction to the pain. In short,
there seemed to be little hope.
“I really did not want to stay
(Arizona Heart Institute) for the
eight weeks,’’ she said. ‘‘I wanted to
be with my family. If something
was going to happen, (die of heart
disease) I wanted to be home. I told
the doctor (Diethrich) I was not
going to stay.”
Taylor said Dr. Diethrich, who
was very concerned with her seri-
ous cardiac condition, turned to her
husband, Richie, and said, ‘You
had better convince her to stay.”
Taylor stayed and the eight-week
Diethrich program proved to be a
life-saver.
“It (the Diethrich program) was
a large adjustment,” Taylor said.
“It was very hard to get use to at
first. It was not until about the fifth
week that I said to myself, ‘ I can
feel the pain disappearing.’
“I lost over 20 pounds during the
program and my husband really did
not recognize me the day I was
leaving,” Taylor said. “I had on a
new dress and had my hair done
and I was standing about 75 feet
from Richie when he saw me and he
said ‘are you the same wife?’,”
Taylor remembered.
A few days later, while at home,
Taylor said she went out with her
husband to a local running track
near her home and started to jog.
Taylor said her husband could not
believe what she was doing given
the fact three months earlier she
could not walk 10 yards without
gasping for breath.
“Stop, you are going to hurt
yourself,” Taylor recalls her hus-
band saying. Pat said she turned to
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According to Hillman, this year’s
Fall Fair committee expects the
five-day attendance to top the 40,000
mark.
“We anticipate quite a large
attendance,” Hillman said. ‘One
funny thing is that many people
have not ever been to the fair
before. If they do get out to the fair
this year, they will be impressed,”
said Hillman.
Hillman, a 17-year member of the
Dallas Kiwanis Club, said that even
with this year’s expanded exhibit
area, the available booth areas are
filling up quickly and the deadline
for applying for a spot has been
moved up.
“We are getting a real good
response from the exhibitors,” Hill-
man said. ‘People have been lining
up for the additional space. A few
months back we were talking about
a deadline around August 31 (for
applying for a booth), now we have
had to move that up to around
August 25.”
Hillman said interested parties
should quickly contact Arts and
Crafts Chairman, Joe Suprum at
735-7916 or 288-5990, if they intend to
operate a stand during this year’s
Fall Fair.
With the expected increase of
attendance, parking for the fair has
also been expanded and there will
be parking attendants on duty to aid
in swiftly getting cars off Route 118
and Memorial Highway. Parking
will be located behind the Nesbitt
Hospital Back Mountain Medical
Center and immediately accross the
street. A $1 parking fee will be
charged.
“Our main goal with parking this
year has been to make it easier for
people to get in and out of the fair,”
Hillman said.
“It (Fall Fair) really has doubled
in size compared to last year,”
Hillman continued. ‘““And we have
spent a lot of time and money on
trying to insure the safety of Wyo-
ming Valley resident attending the
Fair.”
Hillman said police officers from
Lehman Township, Dallas Township
and Dallas Borough will be on hand
to assist people in parking and
directions.
In addition to the top billing of
Jeannie C. Rielly, the new livestock
and horseshow and the fireworks
display, the Fair will present live
bands, hundreds of commercial
exhibitors, food concessions and
many exciting amusement rides
provided by S&S Amusements.
Said Hillman, “We look this year
to have a nice and clean fair.”
Blue Cross
It was announced recently that
Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania, in cooperation with the Penn-
sylvania Department of health and
the Governor’s Diabetes Task
Force, will offer reimbursement to
eligible health care providers for
outpatient education of the chronic
diabetic patient.
“We firmly believe that proper
diabetes education in a cost-effec-
tive setting will help to improve the
health of diabetic patients and
reduce hospital admissions, re-
admissions, emergency room use
and other long’term complications
associated with diabetes.” said Gil-
bert D. Tough, President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Blue Cross
Plan.
Maurice Hertzfeld, Chairman of
the Governor’s Diabetes Task
Force, established in 1980 to investi-
gate the problem of diabetes in the
Commonwealth and to develop a
plan to address it, explaines, “We
are pleased that Blue Cross of
Northeastern Pennsylvania today
becomes the first major third party
‘payor in the state to join with us in
accomplishing our goals. By their
action, Blue Cross is recognizing
that education for self-care is a
fundamental component of quality
treatment for people with diabetes.
This one rule forms the basis of our
Task Force’s statewide plan.”
To mark the kick-off of this new
form of reimbursement, called the
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Ambulatory Diabetes Teaching
Pilot Program, Secretary of Health
H. Arnold Muller, M.D., presented
Tough with a plaque from the
Department of Health to recognize
Blue Cross for instituting the reim-
bursement program and for being
the first third party payor to take
this step. “It is important that we
take action to address this prob-
lem,” Muller stated. ‘Pennsylvania
has over a half million citizens with
diabetes, and more than 15 percent
of the diabetic population is hospi-
talized each year. Yes, diabetes is a
major public health proglem in
Pennsylvania. This occasion today
is a prime example of how govern-
ment and the private sector have
worked cooperatively toward our
mutual goal of providing maximum
health impact through the judicious
use of our limited resources for the
betterment of the physical and
fiscal health of the people of Penn-
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her husband and jokingly said,
“Don’t be silly, I know what I'm
doing.”
“It (jogging only eight weeks
after she was diagnosed to die)
really blew his mind,” Taylor said
with a big smile.
“The Diethrich program is about
70 percent exercise and 30 percent
diet,” Taylor said. ‘‘Diet alone is
not going to save your life. You
really have to exercise.”
Taylor also said that many people
misunderstand the so-called ‘‘signs”
of heart disease.
“The main thing is to be aware of
any sudden changes with your
body,” Taylor said. ‘Prior to me
getting sick, I was selling life insur-
ance and was living a normal life.
Then I started to notice I was
getting tired. The food in my stom-
ach would just sit there. That was a
sign,” Taylor explained.
“It is also important to under-
stand that you can have pain on
your face, neck, leg or anywhere
and be in trouble,” she added.
“Some people get angina (sharp
pains) across their chest, but not
everyone.”
Taylor said it is also important to
change eating and cooking habits.
“In the past seven years, my family
has only used about two quarts of
oil for cooking,” Taylor said. ‘I also
used to be a big egg eater,” Taylor
said. “Now I can’t stand butter and
I always eat dry toast.
“It really is not that tough to
change eating habits,” she said.
“I’m human too, you know. Some-
times I slip up, but you just have to
learn to gradually change your
cooking habits.”
As Taylor thought about her
seven-year ordeal, she said with a
big smile, ‘After the eight-week
Diethrich program, I sent a letter to
the cardiologist (who suggested she
not at all in any trouble.”
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thing you can think of, you can do.”
Gingo said.
A study recently released by the
National Institute of Health reports,
it has been established beyond a
reasonable doubt that lowering ele-
vated blood cholesterol levels will
reduce the risk of heart attack
caused by coronary heart disease.
According to the American Heart
Association (AHA), more than 50
percent of American adults have
cholesterol levels above 200, a level
at which the risk of heart disease
begins to rise sharply.
Approximately 27 million adults
have serum cholesterol levels
higher than 260 milligrams per
deciliter of blood.
Cholesterol is a soft, fat-like sub-
stance found among the fats in the
bloodstream. These fats are called
lipids, and a high level of lipids in
the blood is called hyperlipidemia.
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