The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 057, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984 Page: 3 of 29
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Angleton Woman Endures
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NEW YORK (AP)
— Facial expressions
don’t just reflect
moods and memories
but can actually trig-
ger them, according
to James Laird, psy-
cholpgist at Clark
University,
Worcester, Mass.
In an experiment,
Laird first asked
students to read dis-
tressing newspaper
editorials and comic “car” while making
stories, reports Omni sad and happy faces,
magazine. Later, he “When they smiled
asked them to recall they remembered
the material while pleasant incidents,”
smiling and then Laird notes.
while frowning. Half
of the subjects were
able to recall the hu-
mor effortlessly
while grinning but
faltered while frown-
ing. The grim
editorials were better
recalled as they
grimaced.
Students were also
asked for memories
associated with neu-
tral words such as
ANGLETON (AP) — Thirty-seven years
forced herself to always use the hooks in
ago, a doctor in a small Arkansas town public. It was a time of self-denial, she says to-
showed up drunk at a hospital to deliver a day.
baby.
It was a difficult breech birth with the
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"I had grown up with all these boys who
knew I used my feet but when I started dating,
child s arms spread wide apart. The baby girl I only went with ones who had seen me with
was born with her arms broken in several the hooks.”
P*^es- ... Her first anger about the situation came
The doctor, in his foggy state, decided to when she was 18 and the doctor who had cut
amputate both arms at the shoulders. off her arms telephoned her mother^ to
It was an action that would haunt him for 18 apologize
years, long after he was removed from prac-
tice and banned from the hospital.
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“My mother told me to get on the extension.
He said he’s always felt bad about it and if
But far more profound was its effect on that there was anything he could do, to let him
baby girl. know. I felt angry then, for the first time. I felt
That child was Janie Welch, who lives today like he was admitting guilt.”
in Angleton with her husband and 14-year-old She went to college with plans to be a social
daughter, Robin. Her oldest daughter, 18- worker, then abandoned the ambition to get
year-old Stephanie, lives and works in married. •
Houston. ' “My husband didn’t know I used my feet un-
Mrs. Welch speaks calmly in a well- til after we were married,” she said. Finally,
modulated voice about the circumstances that he caught her. “But he was real nonchalant -
took her arms. he didn’t really say anything,” she says.
“What’s most important, the things that They had two children and Mrs. Welch set-
count, are what’s on the inside,” she says, tied into a lifestyle she realizes was a form of
“The three most important things' in life — escape.
your heart, your mind and your soul - are all “When we were first married, 1 lived in my
on the inside.” ’ own little world. We knew eveyone on the
She is petite, with bright dark eyes and block. It took me a long time to realize I have
short dhrk hair, but her leg muscles are thick' an impact on people? when they see me using
from use. Her feet act as her hands and they my feet.”
move with expressive grace, punctuating her
words with un-selfconscious gestures.
“My mother wouldn’t hold me until I was 6 care of the babies and Steve did everything
months, old — 1 guess I repulsed her. I’m a else.”
very affectionate person. I’ve decided that’s
why I like a lot of affection,” she says.
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There were marital problems. And she felt
smothered. “I was a traditional wife. I took
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The turning point came when Mrs. Welch
,was 27. She and Steve went to a barbecue put
Using her feet as hands came naturally. She on by some of his work acquaintances,
says her father remembers her automatically
picking up a rattle with her feet as an infant.
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Mrs, Welch felt different. First, everyone
left her alone to play volleyball. Then when
„ --_ - And though her family always treated her they sat down to eat, she used her foot to hold
like everyone else, growing up was not rosy, her fork.
There were family embarrassments that she A woman seated next to her looked on with
doesn’t like to talk about even today. disgust, Mrs. Welch recalls, and then moved
“All of us had a hard childhood, ” she says, to sit as far away as possible.
“It’s hard for me to separate what problems I t “I had never had that happen to me hefore
” Trad frdffi'tW lifestyle arief from hot having and it was really hard to take,’’she says.
hands. She and her husband separated and Mrs
“My family really treated me just like nor- Welch rebelled
mal. I think I’m normal. That really bothers
me when people say I’m different. It never without arms until I was 27.1 did a lot of crazy
really bothered me that I had no arms things in rebellion... and I foundacceptance,”
because I just thought I was normal.” she says.
Mrs. Welch wore prostheses — artificial A month after the divorce was final, they
arms - that she calls “hooks.” Since shetived remarried. She expanded her household role
in a small community while growing up, and evolved into the person she is today — a
everyone knew and accepted her. likeable, personable woman.
Self-consciousness began with onset of the These days, she works on writing a book and
dating years. And then Mrs. Welch, who had occasional poems, takes classes at Brazosport
then become extremely adept with her feet, College, enjoys swimming and riding.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 057, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 5, 1984, newspaper, January 5, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153916/m1/3/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.