Thursday, 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.
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branch off water to a house so the
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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-
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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.”
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Traditional town meetings
debate on modern issues
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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.
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