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For the 44-year-old former British nurse, the fear became reality as she

her son die from a rare

Four hard years later, she has moulded daily notes in a diary into a sad but inspiring book called Lionheart: Matthew's Story.

Released by Orca Book Publishers of Vancouver, Lionheart is Ekroth’s intensely personal account of Mat- thew’s four-year battle and its impact on his family.

His struggle ended suddenly in a British hospital on Aug. 21, 1986 — ‘one day after his seventh birthday and one week after he had received a new heart and new lungs.

The transplants were a bid to combat his incurable illness — pulmonary haemangiomatosis — in which abnormal growth of blood vessels gradually destroys vital organs. But the wait for suitable donated organs — during which time the disease continued to advance — cut Matthew’s chances for survival.

Sitting in a Vancouver office, -his mother talks freely of the ordeal. She wasn’t always able to-do-sé.

“It was unspeakable at ‘the time,’’ said Ekroth, a well-groomed woman in a royal blue suit.

“It was indecent — I find myself using that word to describe the

pain.””

Keeping a diary — her husband, Don, also kept one — was initially a form of ‘‘therapy writing,’’ a way of withstanding the unrelenting problems her son encountered.

But she wanted to do more than that. She took creative writing classes at Simon Fraser University to develop the skills to write a book.

“‘One of the things I wanted to do with the book,” says Ekroth, ‘‘was to get the reader to feel something of what the roller-coaster was like when you have a child diagnosed with a catastrophic illness.””

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Workers share worst fears

Imagine you're a waiter juggling trays ata fancy French restaurant and, oops, a plate of escargots ends up on some silk-suited customer.

Or you're a hairdresser noted for precision cuts and a-choo! A badly timed sneeze causes an unflattering slip of

No matter how hard they work, most people are fearful of mishaps on the job.

And if their worst job nightmares me reality, the consequences may range from losing face to losing cash. The latter was the case for Quebec pollster Jean-Marc Leger — although his nightrhare wasn’t in the clumsy-

“The worst thing that can happen during a poll is an event which skews the results," he says.

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how to deal with fears on the job. doubt, go with what clients want.

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Safety inspector risks life to protect kids

MONTREAL (CP) — What do you call a guy who suspends 20- pound weights from the eyes and noses of plush puppy dogs?

Daniel Laporte calls himself a Product-safety inspector for _the federal Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs. His specialty is toys and anything else that could be hazardous to kids.

And he’s talking toys, thousands of toys and maybe even millions of toys — from trains, planes and plush puppies to plump-cheeked dolls and plastic rabbits.

There are also joke gifts like can- dies that automatically relight unless they are thoroughly doused with water and lighters with flames that shoot up high enough to singe the eyebrows.

He’s also talking his own par- ticular ‘bugbear: Secondhand cribs that were built before 1986, with slats more than 2 3/8 inches apart. That’s wide enough for a child to slip his body through, then hang himself by trapping his neck.

“‘Every time a child dies because his neck was caught between the slats of an illegal crib, I feel a little responsible,’’ Laporte said. ‘‘I get a twinge, a feeling of guilt that somehow, somehow, I could have stopped that death.’’

Laporte once risked his life to get two illegal cribs off the market. He found them while combing through a flea market in Lachute, near Mon- treal, in 1981. Hé identified himself and told the seller he wanted the cribs destroyed.

“The guy was smoking a big cigar and he spat at my feet, then went to his truck and came back with a 12- gauge shotgun that he shoved into my stomach,’’ Laporte recalled.

“‘He said I had five seconds to get out of there but I froze, I really froze. But then I found the strength to say, ‘Oh yeah, that will solve all your problems.’

“He put the shotgun down and destroyed the cribs. I couldn’t work for three days, though. Oh, I was shaking.”

tered on the desk in front of him, Laporte, 40, sounds more like a lat- terday Safety Santa than your hum- drum public servant.

“I love kids,” he says, spreading his large hands. ‘Everybody in this office, my Colleagues, everybody, we all have kids.

“And we're concerned that they not be placed in cribs where they can get caught between the slats and choke to death or be given toys and stuff that are dangerous — stuff you would never even dream would be

the brightly colored blocks from China whose paint was more than 0.059 per cent lead.

Or the balloon paste from France that kids were supposed to suck into their mouths through a straw, then blow out to make huge, colored balloons.

“The catch there,"’ Laporte says drily, ‘tis that the main ingredient of this paste is acetone. You know acetone? That's the same ingredient you get high on when you sniff glue. You know, you swallow that balloon stuff and you will see all sorts of dif- ferent colors, I guarantee that.”

Dark, of middling height, with greying hair, Laporte is indignant — affronted — as he talks about the acetone balloons, but he’s quick to add that few, if any stores in Canada would wilfully carry such a product.

It’s up to Laporte and six colleagues — five in Montreal and one in Quebec City — to enforce the federal government’s Hazardous Products Act throughout Quebec:

“A cour of years ago in Sher- brooke, right in the middle of poll on. whether voters were satisfied with the municipal gover- nment, the city’s credit rating went from A to AA,” says Leger.

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mment to saying they were very satisfied. “The whole thing went into the

that costs us tens of thousands of dollars.’’

Dropping a tray of food on a patron isn’t the main concern of Chris Schewaga, a cafeteria manager in Winnipeg.

“My biggest fear is that they (customers) find something in the food, like eggshells or a hair,’’ she says.

Staff wear hairnets, but Schewaga says she has had the odd hair get in- to a sandwich over the years.

Never an eggshell in the egg salad, though, because ‘‘we break each one separately and check.”’

It’s not unusual for people to have fears on the job, says Clarence Sequeira, a Toronto industrial psycholo; who specializes in behavior modification.

“The majority of people can cope with it with some amount of discom- fort, but not enough to really in- terrupt their jobs,’’ says Sequeira, a professor of psychiatry at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.

“They may make a goof, but usually learn that their experience and it helps them better their perfo- rmance,

“But for that small number of people who t cope with it, and whose fears or phobias make them a wreck and practically useless on the job, they can be treated in a short period of time by a therapist.””

Sometimes an embarrassing moment on the job is easy to shrug off.

But in the case of a television per- sonality, like Norma Lee MacLeod of Halifax, that’s easier said than done when you’re facing thousands of viewers. ‘

MacLeod, the 26-year-old co- anchor of CBC-TV’s supper hour news show, says her worst fear is

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“‘sneezing on the air, as odd as that may sound,'’

Another Halifax worker, 19-year- old Rachelle MacSween, who sells lottery tickets at an information booth in a downtown mall, says dealing with ‘something out of her

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“One of my worst fears is (the lot- tery computer) breaking down,”’ says MacSween.

and Country Club in Vancouver, pro Dan Lantin isn’t just thinking about collecting hefty retainers from doc- tors and lawyers for golf ‘lessons.

“Getting clubbed on the head during a lesson is something I worry about,’’ says the 28-year-old.

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“I used to work most weekends and nights with many drunks and druggies getting on,”’ says Lampal, 43. “And you don’t know how someone like that is going to react when you ask them for their fare and they don’t have it.”

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Charles, there are few fears left after 35 years of performing. But plenty of things can still go wrong during a show.

During one performance, Charles recalls, he took two children from the audience to help him with a pain- ting trick involving ‘‘invisible magic water.

“One of the kids was quite young, about three or so, and I didn’t realize this until he got up to the stage,’ says the 54-year-old Charles. “So I gave him an easy job and got him to hold the painting book and went about doing the trick.

“*A couple of minutes later, the lit- tle guy was wiggling about and the next thing I knew there was a puddle of water forming around his feet. The other kid thought it was the in- visible water!"”

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