Friday, March 3, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
Student urges others to donate blood
By Jessin Mover
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
"it's kind of like a bad dream now." Annie Hendricks said thinking back to her freshman year at the University of Kansas.
That bad dream was more like a recurring nightmare. In the fall of 1996, doctors told Hendricks, Clinton, Mo, senior; that she had leukemia.
When the school year ended, Hendricks went to the University of Nebraska School of Medicine in Omaha, Neb. She said she underwent chemotherapy there and received unit after unit of blood transfusions to keep her platelet and hemoglobin levels up while her immune system rebuilt.
age, was.
The nightmare continued when Hendricks was told that no one in her family was a bone marrow match. But a stranger, who was about her own
"You can't even express how much you appreciate someone like that," Hendricks said of the bone marrow donor she met last fall. "He is a really good guy who did this amazing thing for me."
The transplant, which was performed in June 1997, was a complete success, and her body had only minor reactions to the new marrow.
"I feel great n o w . " Hendricks said. "It's in remission, and I feel like I did before."
Hendricks: Benefited from blood transfusions
Next week, the American Red Cross
COLLECTION SITES AND TIMES:
Monday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Tuesday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Wednesday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Thursday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Friday 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
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6p.m.
will give students the opportunity to give blood and be the stranger that could save someone's life — an opportunity Hendricks said she hoped a lot of students would take.
The Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, Association of Residence Halls and All
Scholarship Hall Council are sponsoring a blood drive that will begin Monday and run throughout the week.
Katy Ferrell, Solomon sophomore and Panhellenic appointed officer for the blood drive, said it would not include bone marrow donor testing.
The blood collected next week will go to people such as Hendricks who require fresh, clean blood while they undergo medical procedures, said Judy Green, donor resources development consultant at the Lawrence branch of the American Red Cross.
"There is no substitute for blood," she said. "The risks are minimal and the benefits are substantial."
Hendricks, who said she would donate blood if she could, said she realized that people might be wary of the process.
"I know a lot of people are scared to do it" Hendricks said. "But you have to always think, 'What if it were you?'
Beer goggles
Sean Reed, left, Olathe freshman, watches as Jadrezi Miałowicz, Poland graduate student, tries to make a basket while wearing goggles that simulate drunken eyesight at the health fair at Eckdahl Dining Commons. Photo by Melisa Thornan/KANSAN
KU Med professors lecture legislators on consequences of smoking
By Katrina Hull
By Katrina Holl
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Legislators received a dose of cigarette smoking warnings from the University of Kansas School of Medicine yesterday.
Two professors gave presentations on the consequences of smoking to the House Health and Human Services Committee and Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee.
The lectures were samples of the Mini Medical School; that the Med Center offered
last fall. The Mini Medical School, offering seminars on different health issues, was held in its full form on Tuesday evenings for eight weeks in Kansas City.
"The Mini Medical School is community outreach that gives public insight into the world of medicine," said Mary Beth Gentry, the school's assistant dean for external affairs.
Yesterday's insight included slides showing the inside of a lung blackened and diseased from cigarette smoking.
Jasit Ahluwalia, associate professor of preventative and internal medicine, told legislators that cigarettes contained more than
Ahluwalia said lung cancer now killed more people than any other form of cancer.
4. 000 chemicals and poisons, including chemicals found in rocket fuel, moth balls and paint thinner.
Amy O'Brien, associate professor of medicine, spoke about iron build-up in lungs from smoking and air pollution. Too much iron in the lungs leads to lung disease, she said.
"Whatever the tobacco industry tells you, basically it's not true," he said. "For women, lung cancer has surpassed breast cancer. People talk about a war on breast cancer, but they don't talk about a war on lung cancer — and it's a preventable disease."
"The best way to stop lung disease is cessation of smoking," O'Brien said. "You have to stop the delivery of iron to the lung."
State Sen. Rich Becker (R-Lenexa) said he was fascinated with the presentations, but he suggested one addition.
"As a former smoker of three packs a day, your reasons to quit smoking are correct," Becker said. "But you didn't mention that your clothes smell like smoke or the burn holes that you can get in your tie. It was more of a damn problem than it was worth."
After last fall's Mini Medical School, Gentry said that four smokers who had attended stopped smoking.
Last fall's school only had room for only 250 people, leaving a 150-person waiting list.
Gentry said that the next Mini Medical School in September would have room for 500 but that the program still was looking for ways to reach more Kansans.
Bryce Meeker, Lake Quivira senior and legislative intern, listened to the presentation and said it entertained him. He said Mini Medical School was something he would have liked to attend.
"It would be better if the public could access the program through the TV or the Internet." Meeker said. "It's hard to get to seminars like these."
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