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ie$ (J 4t-home device aids kidney patients THE BATTALION MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1980 Page 9 Ssi ■alif, 'tnostpe, ^arerartli j. United Press International i might (PORTLAND, ^re. — “This is sboo (oily,” 5-year-old Phoebe Ward fatur.. lysj pointing to her 19-month-old e spraj t 6er “Her kidneys don’t work. This d and eifjMolly’s bag. It works for her kid- erawL-yd until she can get another one.” lifornia sPhoebe’s matter-of-fact explana- presentjflof h er little sister’s illness and UCRufie continuous ambulatory peri- ofentolneal dialysis, known as CAPD, ts of |ich keeps her alive sometimes Jtoldilri>P*shes strangers. IndfatjvfTne girh mother, Susan Ward, of ugene, Ore., is getting used to it. ‘'V^fjMolly, a really happy baby,” ‘ 11 * s ofrdly seems to notice the plastic bag he saicjd |it s vital fluid which is her con- of m gut companion. wing It- ’Molly is the youngest of four Ore- > r three t||£ i only 11 ^ Four Oregon children on dialysis formerly for adults only gon children with kidney failure who are living at home with CAPD in stead of spending long periods in a hospital attached to a machine undergoing hemodialysis. One of the other children is 2VZ, and the others are 514 and 614. While about 600 adults around the country are using the system, only a handful of children are known to be undergoing the treatment. Dr. Steven R. Alexander, nephrologist — kidney specialist—who heads the program at the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, said, “We’ve had a few inquiries from around the country but we know of no other program using this method for children.” For children the system has spe cial advantages over the traditional in-hospital dialysis for victims of kid ney failure. “If there is an important factor it is the opportunity to live at home with their own families in a psychic and social environment as near normal as anyone can have,” Alexander said. A major problem for children suf fering from kidney disease has been severe effects on mental and emo tional development resulting from the long periods of hospitalization and separation from their families, he said. “Most are chronically depressed,” Alexander said. “They can’t stay in school regularly and they are iso lated.” Prolonged hospitalization also places tremendous emotional strains on the entire family. CAPD permits the child to live “a pretty normal life” except for the five-times-a-day change in the bag of fluid. “They can go on family vaca tions,” he said. “They can go visit Grandma overnight. There are really no limits.” Molly’s mother, for example, finds that Molly, whose development was nearly halted by the onset of kidney failure when she was 914 months old, is crawling “all over the place” and “loves to play” with her sister and other children. Molly was smaller than average when she was bom but was healthy and normal until she was nine months old. Mrs. Ward believes her problem began with a strep infec tion. Molly’s kidneys ceased to function and she quit urinating. She under went surgery for implantation of the tube in her abdomen which carries the dialysis fluid from the bag on her back into her system and carries the waste material from her peritoneal cavity back into the bag. She re mained in the hospital while her mother learned to change the bags. Then Molly went home. Despite some problems with an ear infection, her appetite is good and her develop ment has resumed. “She has grown a couple of in ches,” Mrs. Ward said, and now weighs slightly more than 16 pounds. The appetite is another advantage of CAPD, Alexander said. “With hemodialysis, these kids are strictly limited in what they can eat and the amount,” he said, especially liquids. Their appetities usually are poor. “Most kids just quit growing when their kidneys fail. “We are learning a lot about how to deliver the kind of nutrition they need. With CAPD the kids feel bet ter, their appetites are better and we are finding they can take a lot more nourishment than we thought.” He said some of the children are growing “as fast as others their age.” He added, however, they are not catching up the growth they failed to make during their illness. Alexander expects the growth of the children to improve as the doc tors learn more about the nutrition the youngsters can absorb. “We have found these children can have an almost unlimited protein intake,” he said, and they are on special supple ments to provide it. For all the children, CAPD is only a stop-gap until they can obtain kidney transplants. The two older children on CAPD both have had transplants and rejected them. The main problem which has sur faced with CAPD for the children, as well as for adults, Alexander said, is peritonitis. Alexander said, howev er, it has taken a mild form and has cleared up within 24 hours after the patients were treated with antibio tics. emale trains polar bears I United Press International NEW YORK — Where does a 12- ot-tall, 1,600-pound polar bear sit? Wherever he dam well pleases? r No. Exactly where Ursula Bott ler tells him to. Forever. For the !St of his life in the big cage at the ^ | reus. “You know every animal, every tor or tiger or lion in the big cage, lefits fcf k ls a place on the side where he .jjg a ts,” said the 5-foot-tall trainer from ^^ast Germany. “The first thing to a bear cub is ‘stay on your Aments 10U; led V uring her first performance in ew York in 1976, a female, slo, inflicted a gash on animal nhas wner Ursula Bottcher’s her n for m. “She scratched me with- uare, it any reason. She did it inten- ) wL) aa ]iy 5/i e wanted to do it. ■ aaa, of course, I finish the n n a g e CB lw... and then I go to the [S a j nergency hospital and they fix ting tliip : byther;, as, he , „ t 0 ;} ;E ace.' Every animal has its place and p cyst’s the same place forever.” Ursula has just finished the morn- g matinee of Ringling Bros, and rnium & Bailey Circus. She sits in ir dressing room at a long table rewn with everything from akeup to chunks of meat for her larges. She talks of her life, her love be circus), her triumphs and her imerous moments of terror. The bear cubs are brought in by rts arf ie Russian fishing boats and bought sucb*/ the East German government ita'fr'amthe Soviets, Ursula says. Their 50 Ar" y ia ,$ woi an goilabl tests ilamed for 11 health training must start no older than 8 or 10 months. At that age, or younger sometimes, Ursula said, you begin by saying “geh am platz, geh am platz (go on place). Ja? Ursula speaks with deep feeling about the circus. “I am so happy. I love the people. When I am here in the United States and have a new contract for two years, I am proud, too.” Being proud and being happy has its price. She has scars to show, this tiny gladiator, standing up to six male giants and four females, any one of which may attack. One scar on her right arm is about 8 inches long. It took 12 stitches. During her first performance in New York in 1976, a female, Oslo, inflicted the gash on her arm. “She scratched me without any reason. She did it intentionally. She wanted to do it.” Did Ursula finish the show? “Jaaaa, of course, I finish the show and then I go to the emergency hospital and they fix it.” As if the bears usual unpredic tability isn’t enough, this is the sea son, even as the show goes on (through June 1), when six macho maulers’ thoughts turn to — you know — love. The females are in heat. Just before coming to New York, the males got into a fight before the performance in Richmond, Va., and entered the ring feeling frustrated, in a killing mood. Muffel took it out on Ursula. Trying to sink his teeth into her thigh, he tore her tights from knee to hip. But Ursula jumped back in time so she escaped with only her skin scraped. “I had expected something like this,” she said. With a 2:30 performance coming up, we asked if she would keep Nixe (who jumps through a fire hoop) and Spitzbergen, in the show. The cage “J was dancing with Nixe and she knocked me down. ” As Ursula lay on the ground, Nixe tried to bite her neck, and all the other bears came off their places and moved to join in the attack. carrying the two females had gone off its carriage after the early show on the steep slope leading to the base ment where the bears are kept. Both females had been pretty badly shaken up when the cage tipped over. Last seen, they were pacing agitatedly back and forth. “Even if they are nervous they have to go on. if I took them out for one time they would never do it (the act) again.” • • • • • • • # m m •f*? Ifflffl**! # The Soft Touch regrets us- “ # ing the Lily of France picture •in its April 9 & 10 ads. Nixe is Alaska’s sister. Ursula got them both when they were 4 months old. Alaska, Ursula’s favorite, is 1154 feet tall, topped by another male, Neptune, by 54 inch. Alaska takes a sugar cube out of Ursula’s mouth during the performance. Visiting him in his cage after the morning show, Alaska nuzzled Ursu la through the bars of his cage. His sister, however, once almost finished off the blonde trainer in the most frightening experience of her career. “I was dancing with Nixe and she knocked me down.” As Ursula lay on the ground, Nixe tried to bite her neck, and all the other bears came off their places and moved to join in the attack. “Manfred had to bring all the bears back to their places (with a 4- foot-long steel rod) before he could help me,” she said. “Maybe I am on the ground just seconds but it seemed like hours. I moved around — she tried to bite my neck — oh, it was terrible.” She wound up with 35 bites on her neck and shoulder before Manfred could save her. “But I had to do the trick again. I stood up. I had to dance with her right away. 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He JU d he could hardly breathe from eer fright. ^^Saffer said he was right to be ^^aid, for it is fallout from that bomb four times more powerful than the ie at Hiroshima — he believes used the unexplained deteriora- m of his health beginning 10 years :er the test. After seeing 22 doctors and spend- g$32,000, Saffer said, he still does >t have a diagnosis that radiation used his illness. Preston Truman, bom in Enter- ise, Utah, in 1951, said he lived his itire life under the threat of atom sts, often seeing clouds from tests ift over his home. When he was 6, he and playmates irned a boy their age was dying of ukemia. “We didn’t know little ildren could die,” he said. Truman, too, suffered from can- r, but is in remission after medical eatment he estimates cost more an $100,000. He blames Nevada test fallout for scancer and his playmate’s death, id blames the government for igligence of the people of southern tah. “We bury the dead,” he said. 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TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1980 Brown Bag Lunch Room 137, MSC, 12 Noon WANT TO STUDY OR TRAVEL OVERSEAS? The Study Abroad Office will sponsor a brown bag lunch. Topics discussed will include: study abroad opportunities, student tours, International Student Cards, work permits, train passes, passports and youth hostels, and cheap travel within Europe. EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING Mr. Wayne Stark, Director of MSC, will talk about the Experiment and the different programs available. Also several students who have been part of the Experiment will be available to talk about their experiences. THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1980 Brown Bag Lunch Room 137, MSC, 12 Noon THIS SUMMER IN LATIN AMERICA You can volunteer to inoculate, do dental hygiene and visual screening, well digging, community sanitation or animal husbandry. One month programs available in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. 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