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University Daily Kansan, March 7, 1984
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Donors give others second chance
By DAVID SWAFFORD Staff Reporter
The untimely death of a 15-year-old girl saved Gwenic Reed's life.
Seven years ago, the girl's left kidney was given to Reed, a 46-year-old Lawrence resident, who needed the organ to stay alive.
Recently she spoke of how the girl's decision to donate her kidney had taken a toll.
"I have energy that I didn't have seven years ago," she said. "I am able to walk again, I can eat and drink coffee, I can watch television and I haven't had a cold in seven years."
REED SAID THE girl's parents did not know that she had wanted her organs donated at the time of her death, but that they had kent her wish.
"Two people are alive today because of what that young woman did," she said.
Reed said she was appreciative of the girl's family and all families who donated organs.
Kevin, the son of Joe and Eileen Barry, Liberty, Mo., died earlier this year of a brain aneurysm. His parents decided to donate his organs because he would have wanted them to do so, they said.
"Kevin was pro-life," his mother said. "He was always interested in other people. I feel that it was what Kevin would have wanted."
The Barrys said their action wasn't intended to bring them into the spotlight. Their only wish was to persuade more families to donate the organs of deceased members.
"WE WOULDN'T HAVE gone far enough to follow Kevin's life," Mr. Barry said. "I feel that we would have been selfish if we wouldn't have donated his organs. Now he lives on in other people."
The Barrys donated their son's heart, kidney, liver and corneas.
"I think that people should do it," he said. "It's your last unselfish act to help your fellow man."
Judy Greathouse, a registered nurse in the department of nephrology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, observes both sides of organ donations.
She said that when family members decide to donate the organs of a loved one, they are usually still filled with stuff and grief. They quite often are withdrawn.
"Most often, if families come forward, they are most courageous in dealing with their grief," she said. "It makes me hold a lot of respect toward the whole family involved." SOME FAMILIES FIND it difficult to handle the organ donor concept, Greathouse said, but go through the experience anyway because it was the wish of the deceased.
She said that organ recipients had
many tests to go through and that they usually had a long wait sheed.
usually had a long wait ahead of them.
It was not a sure-fire thing. "Great house."
Barbara Steinmetz, transplant coordinator at the Midwest Organ Bank in Kansas City, Mo., said that organ transplanting started out as experiments during the 1980s. She said the reasons to be transplanted were kidneys.
WHEN AN ORGAN is needed, Steinmetz said, the personnel at an organ bank look at the organs available before they begin a national search.
The genetic factors in the blood of the donor and the potential recipient must match, Steinmett said, or the organ will be rejected by the body. She said that an anti-rejection drug developed by Dr. Matzkoff had successfully reduced the percentage of organ rejections.
Man begs at residence halls for $5 contributions for gas
By the Kansan Staff
A mysterious man entered three KU residence halls Monday afternoon, visiting students' rooms and begging them to lend him $5 for gasoline, a KU police spokesman said yesterday.
Jeanne Longaker, lieutenant in charge of community services, said that the stranger begged money from students in ELSworth, McColum and Oliver Halls and was successful at least twice.
Officers have arrested no suspects in the case, Longaker said.
People have wandered into halls and asked residents to lend them money in the past, Longaker said.
Linda Lentz, Ellsworth resident director, said that it was the first
instance of begging that hall residents had reported this year.
"Every so often, I think around spring break, it happens," Lentz said.
Officers said that witnesses at the halls described the man as 5-feet-9, about 175 pounds, with dark hair, Longaker said.
Lentz said she was in her office when she received a complaint about the man. She investigated several of the floors, but didn't see the man until he was in the hall lobby later.
He fled the hall when KU police arrived. Lentz said.
LIGHTEN' UP YOUR SPRING BREAK
Stephanie Stephens, Spring Hill freshman said she filed an incident report with Lentz after the man visited her room at about 1 p.m.
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