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By DREX HEIRES Staff Wesler GOSHEN — As Douglas McGlynn prepared to leave fami liar “ew ‘York University Medical Center in June after a second operation on those frustrating legs he was asked a question often put to 6 year olds if you wished for something what would it be? As he from a few revealing an swers and omissions his responses could have been those of any mid dle-class American boy | wish | hed @ million mice What Douglas does have are multiple handicaps His family s adjustment to them has not been easy Doug parents say and ac cording to doctors friends thera pists and others 't hasn t been ty pical Doug is the youngest of James and Sally Mctrivan 5 four children He had respiratory problems the first weeks after birth which led to cortical brain damage and spastic cerebral palsy His legs are useless The areas of his brain that are damaged normally would send messages to his leg muscles ex plains Janet Lockwood director of the Orange County Cerebral Palsy Treatment Center in Goshen Doug can walk or stand without those impulses Moreover his leg muscles are not growing as fast as his bones if the condition is mild with bracing and stretching we can con trol it Miss Lockwood says But Dougs case is not mild and he has undergone two muscle lengthening operations The brain damage also has im pared muscle responses in his left arm hand and eye Seetus hand Doug says re peatedly clenching the fingers into a loose fist like a medical profes sor manipulating a mechanical arm during a lecture He stares at Doug McGlynn can’t run or play baseball, but he can swim and laugh with the best of them, above The cerebral palsy victim also enjoys spending time with his family, and his sister Donna obviously feels the same about him. nght - Record photos by Drex Heikes
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The Times Herald Record
Middletown, New York, US
Thu, Aug 19, 1976
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