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Wednesday. February 17. 1999
Pain of losini
By JEFF RIGGS
The Baytown Sun
The pain of losing a loved one
to a dreaded disease is great, not
only to the patient, but sometimes
even more so to the family mem-
bers who must see them through
thejr final days.
Connie Lard, 38, is testament to
the fact that watching death set
into a loved one is tough finan-
cially, physically and emotionally.
“I was in a crisis mode for three
years,” Lard says. “I was trying to
balance my responsibilities to
God, to my husband, tc my first-
born child and to my relatives
who were very sick.”
The year 1996 was especially
tough for Lard. It was in that year
that her mother, Betty Lou
McMahon Barfield turned 60.
Within nine months, she died of
cancer. Also that year, Lard’s
grandfather was diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s disease, and eventu-
ally was sent to a residential
health care center. Her blind
grandmother also had her painful
moments with a fall that broke her
hip. She lives in a residential
health care facility.
Lard says she and her husband
James decided to have a child in
spite of their responsibilities to
their sick relatives.
“I made a bold and brave deci-
sion,” she says. “I would not let it
(illness) dictate whether or not I
had another child.”
“I developed depression,” she
says. “Finally, my body was not
handling the amount of depres-
sion I was having. I took anti-
depressants.”
If the mental and physical
downside is not bad enough, the
financial consequences of
Alzheimer’s disease makes the
sickness even worse. Lard esti-
mates that to care for an average
patient, the cost is about $45,000-
$60,000 per year.
“The first thing I did in my
grandfather’s case was have a
power-of-attomey drawn up, and
then have him sip the power-of-
attomey for health care,” she says.
“This enabled me to apply for
Medicaid.
“I became his mother. I took
care of his financial needs. He
thought he was in a hotel, and he
asked me if I’d paid the bill.”
Lard looks at the death of her
mother and her grandfather philo-
sophically.
“With Alzheimer’s, you say
goodbye to the relationship, and
then you say goodbye to the body
of the person,” she said, referring
to her grandfather’s death.
She said that at least with her
mother, she had some loving con-
versations before she died.
“I had the added challenge of
dealing with both kinds of death
simultaneously,” she says. “It was
so painful for me to see him
(grandfather) go like that.
“I’d much rather he had gone
some other way,” she says. “I
watched him decline and struggle
through the illness. He was a
vibrant 83-year-old man at one
time who was 6 foot, 2 inches and
200 pounds. He went to being
very frail, elderly 86-year-old.
“There’s a lot of emotional tur-
moil, and a lot of unbearable,
unbelievable grief.”
Lard said her mother had told
her something earlier in life which
helped her to get through the last
three years.
_ “She said God will teach you
what you need to know before
you need to know it,” she says.
“But we must make ourselves
available for that teaching.”
Lard said there was a purpose in
going through such terrible times.
She believes the purpose of this
extended experience was to par-
ticipate in the Baytown Satellite
Memory Walk of the Alzheimer’s
Association/Greater Houston
Chapter.
The walk will be held March 13
from 8-10 a.m. at Bayland Park.
People who want to participate
can call Lois Snead, event chair, at
281422-8870. Contributions can
be made payable to Alzheimer’s
Association, and can be mailed to
Alzheimer’s Association, Pilot
Club of Baytown, P.O. Box 8408,
Baytown, TX 77522-8408.
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Love, your family
Howard wraps up deployment
ABOARD USS SAIPAN — Nathan L.
Howard may have wrapped up a Mediter-
ranean deployment, but he hasn’t been on
vacation. As a crewmember aboard USS
Saipan, Howard, the son of Gordan and
Vivian Howard of Baytown, has been
marking the power and flexibility of U.S.
naval forces.
An amphibious assault ship, Saipan was
one of several U.S. assets in a NATO joint
task force that presented a show of force
for war-torn Kosovo and the former
republic of Yugoslavia.
U.S. forces, representing the most
advanced technology and highly trained
personnel, including Howard and the rest
of the Saipan crew, exercised with the
NATO task force in the Adriatic Sea.
However, for Howard, this was all a
routine part of his sixth-month deploy-
ment to the Mediterranean Sea.
As an electronics technician aboard
' Saipan, Howard is responsible for main-
taining high-tech electronic gear through-
out the ship.
“I’m a computer repairman,” said the
: third class petty officer. “I like that I’m
' learning something that will help me in
the future.” *
Today, in the Mediterranean and Black
seas, the U.S. Navy has 14,000 personnel,
. 27 ships and 110 aircraft forward-
* deployed. This force proves the U.S. glob-
al commitment to peace and stability.
Their “Power for Peace” ensures imme-
diate response in these vital crossroads of
the world to real world issues, such as the
crisis in Kosovo, and the concerns in the
I Persian Gulf region.
“The best part of the deployment for me
has been the unity of everyone on board
and how they work together,” Howard
.said.
Many different elements influenced
• Howard’s decision to join the service. “I
was having a hard time finding what I
- really wanted to do with my life,” he
said.
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responsible for maintaining high-tech electronic gear throughout the USS Saipan.
“The Navy also offered me a good col-
lege fund so I could pursue a degree.”
Howard says he’s found the Navy to be
a rewarding venture.
And no matter what his future holds, he
can always take pride in looking back on
this deployment, knowing his profession-
alism and dedication as a member of the
Navy team helped promote stability in an
unstable world.
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LC registrar selected for leadership program
Scott
Charlotte Scott, who works as
registrar for Lee College, has been
chosen to participate in the
National Insti-
tute for Lead-
ership
Develop-
ment’s LEAD-
ERS program,
an internation-
al professional
development
program for
women
administrators
in higher education.
Scott’s LEADERS project, “Re-
Engineering Student Records
from a Registrar’s Perspective” is
aimed at facilitating implementa-
tion of a new student records soft-
ware system for Lee College.
“In die near future, Lee College
will be acquiring new student
records software,” Scott said.
“Regardless of the product select-
ed, it is essential that all aspects of
student records be reviewed and
evaluated in order to use this new
software to its fullest potential.”
Scott said her goal for this pro-
ject is to review admissions, regis-
tration, transcript evaluations,
degree audits, records manage-
ment and more.
“An analysis and review of cur-
rent procedures,” Scott said, “will
suggest new methodologies that
can be enhanced by new soft-
ware.”
The LEADERS program,
designed to enhance the skills par-
ticipants need to assume major
decision-making roles in their
institutions, includes institutional
practice in supervisory and human
relations skills, planning and bud-
geting, and organizational trans-
formation, as well as discussions
with national experts on the issues
confronting higher education dur-
ing the next decade.
Scott will be mentored by Dr.
Dona G. Harris, executive director
of student systems for Houston
Community College.
In connection with the year-long
program, Scott will attend a one-
week LEADERS workshop in
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Scott came to Lee College in
1982 as administrative secretary
to the dean of students/registrar
and worked in that position
through 1993. She has worked as
registrar since 1994.
A graduate of Ross S. Sterling
High School in Baytown, Scott
earned an associate of applied sci-
ence degree in business from Lee
College and a bachelor of busi-
ness administration degree from
University of Houston-Clear
Lake.
LEADERS professionals are
chosen for their professional abili-
ties, their interests in advancement
in higher education, and the quali-
ty of their proposed projects. Scott
was recommended to the program
by Dr. Jackson N. Sasser, Lee Col-
lege president.
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