The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 10, 1983, Image 11

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, March 10, 1983, Image 11

Newspaper Page TextThursday, March 10, 1983/The BattaIion/Page 11 photo by Howard Kirk Gibbs Tapping the hole Bob August, right, supervisor for Tapping 8c Welding Services, lines up a tool to tap a one-inch hole. Tapping is a repair process used to branch off water to a house so the w^ter does not have to be shut off. ei an oi nerctJ , caiKi" stice rescl ss tent! i.ied Ui• m hec "> 3TTV Anniversary celebration for heart-lung patient me ol ccess ii subo United Press International H MESA, Ariz. — Mary Gohlke the longest surviving heart-lung transplant patient in history celebrated quietly with the peo- feeling pie who motivated her to make 111 medical history two years ago. lfomp ll “My husband and children ^" l ' and mother were primarily my inelao K ason f or having the surgery iti the beginning,” she said. “I ' 0,11 wanted to be with them, and I » W still want to be with them.” Gohlke, 46, a former hard- driving newspaper advertising 1 director, spent Tuesday after- thep rl1 noon at a doctor’s office with a fowm-us that left her one “^“totaled.” s. Gor ^ wasn ’ t complaining, saying “I feel good. I’m just tke grateful for every day.” id |n j! || As days go, she’s had more ered4.than any other heart-lung trans plant patient. Before her, the longest-living survivor lasted 23 days. Since 00 her operation at Stanford Uni- fversity Medical Center, there |j|/i||l (have been 10 recipients and eight are surviving. ■ What makes Gohlke special is she was the first to get an ex- F jla: perimental drug, cyclosporin A, and she had to practically beg to use it. After being told she was dying of pulmonary hypertension, Gohlke contacted Stanford and was accepted for the double transplant. Then doctors said it would take months f or govern ment permission to use the new drug. “She called me and burst into tears, which is unheard of for Mary,” said Max Jennings, ex ecutive editor and Gohlke’s asso ciate at the Mesa Tribune. “She said ‘Max, I’m out of time. I’m dying, and I can’t get approval for that damned drug.’” Jennings, who is co-writing a book with Gohlke about her life, talked to a politician’s staff, who in turn contacted the Food and Drug Administration. Approval came the next day. “I think she literally saved her own life,” Jennings said of the tiny, 5-foot Gohlke. Now Gohlke, the mother of two teenage sons, concentrates on preserving what she’s saved. She takes 16 pills a day, in cluding cyclosporin A twice a day. She has medical checkups at least once a month. She travels to Stanford for annual check ups, and to Tucson every four months for a heart check. “In her situation she has to be extraordinarily careful about in fection. She’s susceptible to any thing,” Jennings said. Despite that, she returned to work part time, a year after her surgery. She was working full time when she was hospitalized six days last fall for bronchitis. “In my opinion she overdid it,” said Jennings. “She’s an enormously hard worker by na ture. She was working a few times 10 to 12 hours a day. “The bronchitis infection weakened her quite a bit,” he added. “The decision was made she stay away from work until she got her strenth back.” Now she drives, shops and helps cook. But she’d rather be at the office. “I’d like to be back tomor row,” she said, but added she can wait. “I’m learning what patience is.” Pi il eak / md sr Butte' At ING mnef Ribeye Steak Dinner At Fort Shiloh: Only $ 8 95 ! Thursday-Saturday 5-/0 p.m. Weekly/ Includes a large 9-10 oz. USDA choice Ribeye Steak, a baked potato or french fries, hot-and fresh homemade rolls, and a trip to the best salad bar around! A Complete Meal! A*"- i 4, I F9 R T 1 Mon.-Fri. Sat.-Sun. 1 1 a.m.-2 p.m. 5 p.m.-1 0 p.m. II a.m.-1 0 p.m. SlnLOll \ STEAK HOUSER 2528 S. Texas College Station 693-1 164 national Traditional town meetings debate on modern issues United Press International CONCORD, N.H. — Voters across New Hampshire Tuesday used the centuries-old tradition of town meetings to speak out against the very modern issue of acid rain. The unofficial total of towns supporting the measure calling for a reduction in the cause of acid rain was about 70, said organizers. A final count would not be available until Wednesday. There were no confirmed re ports of any towns rejecting the petition. At least one town, Croydon, indefinitely post poned it. In all, 195 of New Hamp shire’s 224 towns are voting on the petition which calls for a 50 percent reduction in sulfur emissions. Many scientists have linked these emissions to acid In at least 43 towns and the city of Lebanon, voters also be gan debating a resolution Tues day asking President Reagan to negotiate a mutual, verifiable nuclear arms freeze with the Soviet Union. With only nine communities' reporting early Wednesday, six:, had rejected it and three approved it, including Lebanon, said Arnold Alpert, a spokes man for the freeze petition sponsors. The vote in Lebanon, the only, New Hampshire city debating the petition, was 916-272 in favor. Votes in the towns were not immediately available. Chemical haunts families United Press International GRAY SUMMIT, Mo. — Five families who moved from diox in-contaminated Times Beach to a trailer park 13 miles away are living on one of four new sites found to be contaminated by the deadly chemical, the gov ernment confirmed. The Essens moved to a three- bedroom mobile home in Gray Summit two months ago after dioxin was confirmed in Times Beach, 13 milestlown Interstate 44. They found out two weeks later there was a possibility diox in was present near their new home in the Quail Run Mobile Home Manor. Tuesday, the En vironmental Protection Agency confirmed it. Essen and his son watched EPA technicians take soil sam ples outside their trailer Tues day to test for dioxin. As soon as his wife got home from work, the family was moving again to a nearby motel. The Essens were one of five Times Beach families to relocate at the mobile home park. The others, however, moved in on their own so the government is powerless to move them. The Essens lost their home and all their possessions in re cord flooding in Times Beach in early December. They were starting to rebuild their house when the Centers for Disease Control advised residents to leave because of the high levels of dioxin contamination. The family stayed with friends for a month before the government moved them to the mobile home park, where they had been living in a govern ment-owned trailer and think-' ing their life was returning almost to normal. Essen’s home in Times Beach will be included in the $33 mil lion f ederal buy-out of the town, but he has heard nothing about what value appraisers will place on his home and when he will get the money. The EPA Tuesday confirmed the presence of dioxin at four more sites in the St. Louis area, increasing the number of known contaminated sites in Missouri to 26. FIJI SPRING FLING Featuring “Ultimate Force” MARCH 35 FREE BEER Brazos Co. Pavillion Tickets *5" SMU IN ^1^ OXFORD July 2 - August 6 Southern Methodist University is pleased to announce its sixth summer study program in Oxford. Live and study with a distinguished SMU and British faculty at University College, Oxford. For information, mail the coupon below. 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