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...Hiroshima survivor, Shigeko Sasamori, brought the 2000 spectators to their feet with a prayer for disarmament. The visions of Hindustan didn't die for nothing", she said. "They sacrificed us so no more mistake, no more Hindustans no more...
...against U.S. use of atomic weapons, but the story quickly turned into one of medical triumph. Last week the first before-and-after pictures of the patients to be published showed the striking success of Mount Sinai's surgeons (see cuts). Back in Japan with the other girls, Shigeko Niimoto-whose deformities had been the worst-is studying to become a nurse's aide. Said she: "After watching the nurses at Mount Sinai, I decided that is the way I would spend my life-in service to others...
Months later Shigeko was still bald and beet-complexioned, so she was dubbed Aka Oni (Red Devil). After a nurse ordered her burned hands bandaged, they became gnarled like briar roots, and she lost the use of fingers and hands alike. For Shigeko's was one of the stubborn cases suffering both contractions and keloid growths (in effect, tumors of scar tissue). Shigeko could not work. She had no hope of marriage. And at the Nagaragawa Methodist Church she met scores of other girls in like plight. The Reverend Kiyoshi Tanimoto called them "The Hiroshima Maidens...
...Accepted Fact. Japanese plastic surgeons did their best: at Tokyo University Hospital, Shigeko had 20 operations, regained some movement in her neck and fingers. But the scar tissue kept coming back. Then U.S. Editor (The Saturday Review) Norman Cousins heard of the "Keloid Girls," began a campaign to get them another chance. The Hiroshima Peace Center Associates, a private philanthropic group, agreed to sponsor 25 of the most badly scarred Hiroshima Maidens on a trip to the U.S. for surgical treatment; the New York Quakers offered to find them homes. In charge (without fee) of the long, arduous program...
...attendant doctors, these signs of mental healing are as important as the surgical gains. Although facial deformities are being improved, and the use of frozen hands and limbs gradually restored, plastic surgery can never totally efface the marks of the terrible seconds under the bomb. Shigeko and the others quietly accept this fact. Said one of the girls to an interpreter shortly before she was wheeled into the operating room: "Tell Dr. Barsky not to be worried because he cannot give me a new face. I know that this is impossible, but it does not matter; something has already healed...