NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, August 26, 1994
7B
Girl's heart gives father life
The Associated Press
ROYAL OAK, Mich. — For Chester Szuber, it was the gift of life, but at a cost so dear he almost didn't accept it. The youngest of his six children — an exuberant 22-year-old nursing student — had been killed in a car accident, and it quickly became clear her heart could be his.
The family had little time to decide.
Patti Szuber had insisted she wanted her organs donated if she died.
But her mother couldn't bear the thought of the risky surgery claiming her husband, too.
In the end it was Chester Szuber's decision. "It would be a joy to have Patti's heart," Patti's brother, Bob Szuber, remembers his frail father saving.
On Monday, Patti's heart was flown from the Tennessee hospital where she had died only hours earlier to Michigan, where it was implanted and restarted in her father.
Chester Szuber, 58, was off a breathing machine by the morning after the surgery and was in good condition
yesterday, said deffrey Althusher, who performed the transplant operation.
Chester Szuber is expected to leave the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak within two weeks, to lead "essentially a normal lifestyle," Altshuler said.
His daughter's death on a mountain road in Tennessee came while she was on a trip with a friend before her return to nursing school.
"The day she arrived she talked to my mother and said she was having a wonderful, fantastic time," Bob Szuber said yesterday.
But on the night of Aug. 18, the car she was riding in went off a curvy road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park about 40 miles from Knoxville, Tenn. The car hit a rock wall, careened back onto the road and rolled several times.
The driver, Todd Douglas Herbst, 24, of Royal Oak was treated for minor injuries. He was charged with drunken driving, possession of an open container of alcohol, driving on a suspended license and unsafe operation, said park representative Nancy
From the minute Patti Szuber entered the University of Tennessee Medical Center, her prognosis was poor, her brother said. By Sunday, she had been pronounced brain dead.
Grav.
"At the time, we had no idea that donation of Patti's heart to our father was even a possibility," Bob Szuber said.
A family has two choices once they decide to donate: give the organs to society or specify an individual on the national waiting list whom they know, said Thomas Beyersdorf, executive director of the Organ Procurement Association of Michigan. The family was informed of the choices.
Tests were done that showed the father-daughter transplant was feasible. The decision was made.
With a team of surgeons, Altshuler flew early Monday to Tennessee to remove Patti Szuber's heart. Five hours and 51 minutes after it had stopped in Tennessee, it was beating in Chester Szuber's chest, said Altshuler, director of cardiac transplantation at William Baumount Hospital.
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Lured by notions of global peace and advertisements promoting a bigname concert, 3,500 people have camped in the ponderosa pine forest 50 miles south of the Grand Canyon.
Inside the bus where he was serving peanut-butter sandwiches and pasta with tomato sauce, Greg Jay wiped his hands on his tie-dyed T-shirt. "Yup, that looks like it's worth sweetening," he replied. "Got any more 'shrooms'?"
No music, lots of fans
A series of mistakes and tiffs
The Associated Press
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Clad only in corduroy shorts and an earring through his right nipple, Thomas Knuck walked up to the yellow school bus serving as a makeshift kitchen.
"Got any sugar for this?" he asked, hefting a plastic container of sun tea he had brewed from hallucinogenic mushrooms.
The Flagstaff-based organizer, Michael DiMartio, was nowhere to be found Wednesday. But people kept pouring in, creeping down the dusty dirt road in Volkswagen microbuses, campers and cars.
The crowd, which started the week at about 600, was up to 3,500 by Wednesday, said Forest Service spokeswoman Terl Steilen.
between organizers and officialdom have left the planned week-long celebration of music and harmony with neither music, harmony, nor an approved campsite.
Northern Arizona University officials canceled a promised concert by Jefferson Starship and Richie Havens at the school's domed stadium. Kaibab National Forest officials refused to allow a concert or vendors on federal land.
The encampment they have reluctantly allowed to spring up 10 miles from the nearest paved road lacks water, toilets and first-aid facilities.
Girl sues for cat
LAWRENCE, Kan. — A family who contends the Lawrence Humane Society gave their lost cat to someone else is suing for the cat and $50,000.
Robbin Loomas and her daughter, Donniele Kern, filed a lawsuit Tuesday asking for the cat, Bucky, and $50,000 for mental suffering and other complaints, said their lawyer, Don Strole.
Shelter manager Renee Harris said yesterday she had been advised not to comment on the lawsuit, which Harris said, the shelter has not yet seen.
Bucky was found and taken to the humane society last month. Another Lawrence resident adopted the cat.
Before the adoption, Loomas visited the shelter and recognized the pedigreed silver Persian cat. Strohe said the shelter refused to give Bucky back, saying it was too late.
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