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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1961)
v.;.;;,1:' j i",. Vf"i"N " ,' . ' . .-V" A-:'-. -1,;: I m&m "'iaiSSrtsrfr ' . --- nil I. '. ! : .m. II ijr-a- jw. -r 1 Despite Ingeborg's pnraysis, doctors were able to remove her from the iron lung long enough for birth of her third child a normal, healthy baby girl named Doores. I Am an "Iron-Lung" Mother Twice she has left a respirator to deliver children; now she vows to leave it forever By INGEBORG CULLY For the second time since I was stricken with paralytic polio four years ago, doctors re moved me from my iron lung last August for the birth of a baby. For a moment, the team of six doctors let my husband, Army Sgt. Jack Cully, press my useless hand. I knew that for every labor pain I endured, he was undergoing threefold torments. Through a tube inserted in my neck, oxygen was forced into my lungs during the hour it required to deliver the beautiful baby girl we named Do lores. Next, I dimly remember being rolled back into the iron lung which has been my prison since July 1G, 1956, the day before I gave birth to my first son, Jackie. Today the fears I lived with for months have been replaced by the joys of having a healthy in-" fant girl. And now with my loved ones around me again and with kind neighbors to help, I feel on the threshold of - a new career taking care of my family and of our home in New York City. I know this career won't be easy. Except for a little movement in my legs, I am paralyzed from my neck down. But since God in His bounty has given us another baby, I am determined to show my gratitude by becoming a homcmaker again. Certainly I am far better off than I was. For one thing, the March of Dimes of the National Founda tion has spent almost $25,000 to bring me to the point where I can think about doing things for others instead of the other way around. Today I can breathe by means of a chest respirator while in my wheel chair or rocking bed, instead of living in the iron lung. And I pray for the success of an experimental artificial muscle which may permit me to move my arms and hands some day. There already are some things I can do at home. If he holds up the book, I can read aloud to Jackie. And with one foot, I can gently prod him on his bottom when he's naughty. I tutor Helen, 10, our oldest child, with her homework, often while she's combing my hair or exercising my fingers. With National Foundation aid, 1 have taught myself to use an electric typewriter, using a "mouth stick" to write my parents in Berlin, Germany, where I met and married my GI husband 11 years ago. I can even switch on the TV set with my toes. These activities may seem meager, even trivial, but I feel they are hopeful steps toward the day I will leave my wheel chair and walk beside my husband and children. That day I will be a real homemaker again. With the aid of a chest respirator, Ingeborg can sit up while she tutors her oldest child, Helen, who is noiv ten. COVER: Sweet and sassy, actress Shirley AfacLaine is known to Jans for the unique relent she has of bringing tenrj to our eyes or mak ing us laugh with a simple gesture or a few words. Read Shirley's oun story on page 8. Family Weekly January 29, 1961 IEONAR0 S. DAVIOOW t'n,id.t ad '.Mi.fr WAITEI C. D8ETFUS I'trr -rr.inl PATRICK E. O'ROURKE ,Wr,rfino J,rrrlr MORTON FRANK Jrrrrnr of I'Mrr MatiaiM Send all advertising communication 10 Family Weekly 153 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, III. Addretl all communication! about editorial features to Fomily Weekly, 60 E. 56th St., New York 22. N. Y. Board of Editors ERNEST V. MEYN Kdilor-iti-Cltirl BEN KARTMAN Krrcutivr Milor ROBERT FITZOIBBON Manaaina Kdilur MARGARET BEll frafarr Editor PHILLIP DYKSTRA Art IKrrrtor MELANIE OE PROFT Fcnrf Kdilor Bob Driscoll, John Hochmann, Jerry Klein, Harold London. Murray Miller, Jock Ryan; Peer Oppenheimer, Hollywood. v mi, FAMILY WEEKLY MAGAZINE, INC., 153 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 1, III. All rights reserved.
