The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Hemophiliac will demonstrate cryo injection your gain. 6 6 Other resource people will be Lorraine Peters, Consulâ€" tant on â€" Marriage â€" and Family Relationships in a Christian Perspective, Waâ€" terloo, Ontario; and Lisa Avedon, _ Adult _ Program Worker, Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo The program begins on Saturday, April 16 at 9:30 a.m. and ends at 3: 30 p.m. The fee for the day is $5, which includes lunch. Babyâ€" sitting will be available at a nominal charge. _ 1I_ sponsors forum Apr. 16 Glenys Hews, Director of Christian Education at St. Andrew‘s United Church in Markham, Ontario, _ will speak on: ‘"Genesis, the Garden Revisited." YWCA The goals for the day are to find mutual support for women who are concerned with their roles in the church and to help women develop awareness of their potential. A forum focusing on **Women and the Church" will be sponsored by the Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo YWCA tn Saturday, April 16. Mark George, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.E. George of Guelph, will give a demonâ€" stration of the use of cryoâ€" precipitate by injection in his own arm. Mark takes the cryoprecipitate three times a week. The ‘‘cryo ‘ injections provide the clotting factor which hemophiliac victims lack On April 20, the local members of the Canadian Hemophilia _ Society _ will give _ demonstrations _ on the uses of blood for hemâ€" ophiliacs at a blood donor clinic which will be held at the First United Church in Waterloo. The clinic will run from 2 til 4:30 p.m. and from 6 til 8: 30 p.m. There are 18 other hemâ€" opiliacs in the Waterlooâ€" Wellington _ Region _ who are also dependent on Red Cross blood donations to varying degrees. Bleeding in any one of these people can increase their cryo requirement to a twice daily dosage. At blood clinic Since 1972, he has been following a home care program, â€" injecting â€" himâ€" self with the plasma when he needs it. The cryo. which is kept frozen, must be brougbt to room temperaâ€" ture and diluted with a saline solution before it is injected into a vein. Mark is a hemophiliac. He is one of the 40 percent suffering from the disease with no known prior history of it in their family. His disease _ was _ diagnosed when he was about eight months old. Three times a week, Mark needs an injection of six packages of plasma containing cryoâ€" percipitate. Your loss 1s The Canadian movement tor personai hiness ‘~ AA in &q 99 Hemophilia is an inheritâ€" ed disease in which one or more of the 13 bloodâ€"clotâ€" ting factors are deficient. Women are usually carâ€" riers of the gene that causes the disease and there is a 50 percent chance the disease will occur in the male offspring. It can be a throwback to eight generations. Women seldom get the disease but there is a small percentage with it in Canâ€" ada. For a woman to be infected her father would have to be a hemophiliac Members of the national executive of the Canadian Red Cross visited the Kâ€"W Red Cross branch in Waterloo Friday as part of a provincial goodwill tour. Muriel Craig (left), secretary to the Canadian Red Cross Society of Toronto, John Nicholson, presiâ€" in their own blood. and her maother a carrier agn the m Bob Bratina‘s Back Tune In Monday through Friday, 6 a.m.â€"10 a.m. Saturday, 6 a.m.â€"9 a.m. CHHW («â€" 1090 Falls, bruises, the slightâ€" est cut, or such things as a tooth extraction or loss of a baby tooth, can cause uncontrollable bleeding in a hemophiliac. Internal bleeding _ problems _ can also occur. Blood trickling into a muscle joint creates pressure _ which _ causes severe swelling and pain. and her mother a carrier. ago. the outlook for hemoâ€" The disease is on the inâ€" philiacs was very dismal. crease in Canada, but no Most faced eventual cripâ€" one seems to know why. pling or an early death. About 40 percent of the In 1965, cryopercipitate, known cases don‘t have a _ a byâ€"product of blood which history back in the family. forms the antiâ€"hemophiliac Until 1965, only 12 years In 1965, cryopercipitate, a byâ€"product of blood which forms the antiâ€"hemophiliac clotting factor was disâ€" covered and plasma began to be administered in hosâ€" pitals _ and _ hemophilia clinics. dent of the Kâ€"W branch, and David Graham. chairman of the Ontario division‘s revenue committee, looked over a few of the local displays at the Kâ€"W branch as part of the visit. Mark George is a bright active teenager who holds a partâ€"time job and partiâ€" cipates in all sports except contact sports like hockey and football. He is normal in every respect but one to maintain his health he needs the help of over 1,000 people a year who donate blood through the Red Cross blood donor clinics Waterioo Chraonicie, Wednesday, April 6, 1977 â€" Page 21 literature on hemophilia. Mr. and Mrs. George and Mark will attend the eveâ€" ning session. Other hemophiliacs and their parents will be on hand at the clinic, mostly during the evening hours, to talk to volunteer blood out