Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-01-26
HITS for Mrs. 3 !,
By Dorothy B. Waleski
Garden 4-SS89


pm we will all be turning porch lights digging down
deep for the mothers who marching.
Why? Where does the money go? any
to the county to help peope These questions that
might be asked at this time and that this column interested in
answering
interested also in the wonans angle in par
icuar to findu a mother,
preferably mother,
of Dimes Temporarily, at least) whom could interview
They did and did.
Downcounty Washington Sanitarium in private room
on the second floor lies an exceptionally pretty dark haired
woman who at this point fighting
This the story of her and her family; the of Dimes
and you and you and you
September Raymond Taley moved
into their rambler Seneca Road They
nad both come to Washington from different parts of the State of
Virginia in the early 4os and had lived there This
home the first they bought they delighted
baby daughter GAIL and their Ray Jr would be one
and five old that February They looking forward
to entering Ray in kindergarten the fall.
But last August few weekend before the opening school,
the Taeys Virginia Luray family reunion
Bertha Taey had not felt well that week but had thought
passing virus
returned home throat
touch She dragged around all week. feeling
punk until her legs began acting peculiarly At this point Oh
Thursday, she called her
Dr. John C. Fawcete Boyds, lad rad polio
five before diagnosed polimyets Immediately
Bertha her d. c. General Hospital after that
Five days later August 49, lung
spinal poomyeit had complicated by encephais
ton of the BRAIN
On August 81 to enable her racheoomy
formed She for only seconscious
for most of her stay in the iron lung
During the first intravenously and
through the She asking
breakfast and looking up to see jars OF milk juice hang
ing above her
She pain period says ruthuy
it easy living you technique of
breathing with the lung life is simplest and
you just lie still and "be done unto"
Only occasionally overcome by sensation of
choking because of the tighness of the lung AL
though of sigh for breathing spell in lives
somehow l don't think iron lung is the
AS she gradually began improve, she
portable lung the Monahan she calls for longer periods
and also to try breathing on her little at time
of a
repaor during this time Finally October g. she graduated
from the lung
tona herapy added to her routine She bd and
learned how to weave and knit delicate pink stole in the
making, she says will probably be finished by
Mrs. TaIey back to the county to the Washington
Santarum November 49, Except operation
January to close the tachea with plastic surgery
made steady since.
hghgt of her stay the hospital was as you might e
pect her six hours home Christmas Ray
dispatcher for the Sinclair Oil Co., had closed their and
staying with relatives in the District
Gail and Ray Jr, with his parents Piney
Patuxent Naval Air Base in St May County the holiday
Mr. Tay reopened his home and the grandparents the
children back.
At p o'clock Mr. Talley picked his wife literally and
red her to their and brought
six hours full of Christmas dinner precious
time with the children In order not to miss moment of it, she
nap Those
six hours the shortest in the 1855 Taey family
The hospital day begins Talley
wakes and for breakfast o'clock At TO- she
down to hydroherapy for her treatments in the Hbbd
In this she lies with her body submerged while gadgets
that look like cupboard motors swirl the gently
work the paayzed muscles She describes pleasant
sensation not unlike sitting the letting
the wash
From II to o'clock she visiting the floor in her
wheelchair There other polio patients
both who advanced stage recovery
than Mrs Talley.
These three visit back and forth great comparing
their Illness occasionally entertaining
with gaas like the pa party Taley
After lunch Mrs Taey tries to for hour The
rest of her time taken with visitors her husband daily
eephoning her friends reading watching teevsion
has largesceen right beside her bed writing letters
She to find time and then that
pretty pink although you leading
Another activity not pleasant the Others daily
with the exercise bars TO stretch muscles
painful these the to stretch which involves
raising the Of the bar by puleys This
really hurts and glad that she to dance
lot because this has given her strong hip muscles.
Comparing with her polio pals Mrs. Taley thinks
will hydoherapy another of months
form of eecroherapy She doesn't know how long she will
hospital that it will anywhere
long the 16 months that have been predicted for her
This her serious the which
is o reestablished Her husband been
searching everywhere for housekeepe that he the
house Jamestown
Taeys particularly getting young