'Family is everything': Daughter of Tylenol poisoning victim ready to share story
Forty years ago, Adam Janus picked up his 4-year-old daughter, Kasia, from preschool at Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Church in Arlington Heights and headed to a nearby Jewel store, where he bought a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules.
The event, which benefits the foundation's work for impoverished families in Uganda, also will feature storyteller and singer Wayne Messmer, recently retired award-winning Daily Herald columnist Burt Constable, former Daily Herald reporter and Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 Director of Communications Erin Holmes and Daily Herald correspondent Eileen Daday.
There is a special connection between the Janus family and Deacon Don. He was the family's backyard neighbor in Arlington Heights at the time of the tragedy. She plans to discuss the important role her community, especially her family's Mitchell Street neighbors and fellow Our Lady of the Wayside parishioners, played in the wake of an overwhelming tragedy.
After her father died, relatives gathered at the family home, including his brother, Stanley, and Stanley's wife, Theresa. While there, they ingested capsules from the same tainted Tylenol bottle. "Now she is all of a sudden a single parent with two young kids, and her whole world just completely vanished in a sense," Kasia said."Her family is in Poland, and she's got my dad's family. She had a choice. Do you stay or do you go back ?"
Looking through her grandmother's personal effects, she found a black-and-white photo of her 4-year-old self taken by a newspaper photographer at Maryhill Catholic Cemetery the day her father, uncle and aunt were buried.
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