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Barbara Moore teaches Jon Rice about sleep patterns.
he urinates, sleeps and wakes.
That's what Bob and Carol Rice
did for Jon, and he was cured
within the typical six-month time
span.
The Enuresis Treatment Cen-
ter reports a 95 percent success
rate. Walls of its Farmington
Hills office display pictures of pa-
tients — happy children — who
no longer wet the bed.
"It's not their fault."
— Barbara Moore
But for the many enuretics
who have not received treatment,
the story is different. The Loneli-
est Runner was a 1970's televi-
sion movie detailing the panicked
childhood of late actor Michael
Landon.
Mr. Landon's mother tried to
punish her enuretic son by hang-
ing his soiled sheets out his bed-
room window. As a schoolboy, Mr.
Landon honed his long-distance
running abilities by literally
sprinting home in the afternoon
to remove the embarrassing ev-
idence before classmates passed
by his house.
Ms. Moore has worked with
many parents, so frustrated with
their child's disorder, they have
succumbed to demeaning tactics,
even violence.
One parent sent her son off to
school with a sign on his back: "I
am a bedwetter." The hope was
to humiliate him into recovery.
About four years ago, a mother
punished her daughter for wet-
ting the bed by putting her into a
washing machine. The child died.
`There are children so stressed
they stay awake all night," Ms.
Moore said. "People still don't
know help's available It's not their
fault and they can recover." ❑
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fear — because I was in Ger-
many," Ms. Lieberman said.
"When they told me they were
going to take my appendix
out and I refused, they told me
they did several of these opera-
tions on a regular basis. I never
even saw anyone else at the hos-
pital."
There wasn't much Ms. Em-
mer and Ms. Lieberman could
have done to prevent their trav-
el traumas — but many are
avoidable. Dr. Band and Inter-
Health make recommendations
to travelers depending on their
individual destinations. First,
they advise travelers to receive
a pretravel health evaluation
and immunization reviews at
least four to six weeks before de-
parture.
They also recommend check-
ing health insurance coverage
before leaving, avoiding tap
water while traveling unless it
is filtered and chlorinated,
avoiding foreign purchased over-
the-counter medications (they
can contain substances banned
in the United States because of
serious side effects) and taking
a simple medical kit that in-
cludes personal items, conven-
tional first-aid items and basic
medication.
The greatest single health
hazard encountered in interna-
tional travel, according to an In-
terHealth pamphlet, involves
accidents, particularly with au-
tomobiles.
Ms. Emmer and Ms. Lieber-
man have recovered from their
travel ailments and both said
their experiences will not keep
them from returning overseas.
When Ms. Emmer returns to
Israel, she will make sure she
is in top physical condition.
"I was sad about having to
leave, but good things have hap-
pened since I've been back," she
said. "I got my first and second
jobs in social work and I just got
engaged."
Ms. Lieberman has already re-
turned to Europe, where she led
a bike trip. She made sure she
brought medicine, just in case.
Ironically, someone else on her
trip had appendicitis. ❑