Word: boudreaux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...checkered sportscoat and thin tie, Boudreaux resembles any other well-healed businessman with an office on Main St. USA. He even belongs to Carville's own Lion's Club chapter, and he has the organization's insignia emblazoned on his desk neameplate to prove...
...While Boudreaux may not have had to scrape and claw in the marketplace to build his magazine, which is subsidized by a veteran's organization and operates without, overhead costs in a government building, he had other obstacles to overcome. And they become readily apparent upon closer observation of the executive seated calmly behind his desk...
...Boudreaux is blind; his hands are gnarled and almost dysfunctional; his face is slightly disfigured. He learned he had HD when he was 19 years old. Since that day in 1934, he has lived and worked at Carville...
Today, residence at Carville is purely voluntary. Patients can leave the premises whenever they like. Boudreaux recalls another time, however. "Patients who come here today cannot appreciate what Carville used to be like. It had a penitentiary atmosphere. Now the gates are wide open. Years ago people went through holes in the fence to get out. Patients were isolated, visitors discouraged...
Such gallows humor has all but disappeared now. Fears of instant contagion are gone, at least among people who know better, though the stigma surrounding leprosy remains. Boudreaux has seen the changes, kept record of them in his magazine, and done what he can to remove the stigma...