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Monday, April 9, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
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the Med Center. After an evaluation by Jameson Forster, director of the liver transplant program at the Med Center, and his staff, Poe was placed on a waiting list for a healthy organ Friday, Feb. 23.
The joy of knowing she had been accepted for the procedure was counterbalanced by the anxiety and fear of waiting for the telephone to ring.
"I was excited that I was going to have a chance, but I really didn't think anyone would call," Poe said. "Every time the phone rang, I hoped he would come. I began to get nervous and very scared. I was afraid I was going to die."
"I remember going to the store with my husband and saying to him, 'Look at these people. They are all free, and they don't even know it. I want to be like them.'"
Surgery
Her telephone rang Monday evening, Feb. 26, giving her the opportunity to become free like the others she envied.
"When I got the call, I wasn't scared at all," she said. "I got excited and she said, 'Thank you donor, thank you donor, thank you donor.' Thank you donor, thank you donor, thank you donor."
Poe left for the Med Center. By 11 p.m. she said goodbye to her husband.
"That was extremely hard," she said. "We never talked about the fact that I might die. When he kissed me and laid his hand on me as I was being wheeled through those double doors, I thought about it. I was scared, but I couldn't bring myself to talk about it."
About 4:30 a.m. the transplant operation began.
Forster, who performed the operation, said the procedure ran smoothly with no complications.
About noon, Poe was wheeled out of the operating room and into recovery.
Carol Garman, registered nurse,
said Poe was awake and alert not
long after the surgery.
As the days passed. Poe became stronger and began to exhibit some of the energy she had before her illness.
"I had sent her husband home after the surgery thinking she would sleep all day," Garman said. "But right from the start she kept pointing at her ring and asking for her husband. It was amazing how much she wrote on the message pad that first day. I could not believe it."
"Kristine was always a very positive and determined lady," Garman said. "She would always joke around with the doctors and the staff. She would not be so to be serious. She wouldn't let herself go about anything."
Foster also noticed Poe's vitality,
"She had a fast recovery with a
very minimal number of problems.
For Foster, it was easier to expect
to two weeks earlier than I expected
"She has a vitality and thirst for life that you don't see in everyone. The new liver seems to have only increased that thirst."
Released from hospital
Poe was released from the hospital March 23. Now she plans to do many of the things denied her during her illness.
"Right now I want to learn how to tap dance," Pae said with a grin. "I want to watch a lot of MTV and VH-1 and buy a lot more music to make tapes. I'd like to learn to juggle and teach someone how to read. I'd love to learn a foreign language, but that is not first priority. I'm too lazy."
"I would tell someone in my position that it is possible, and there is always hope for life. Don't take no for an answer. If we had, I would not be sitting here right now."
Poe said that people suffering from similar circumstances should not give up their own thirst for life.
Barbara Poe said she had seen a definite change in her mother since the surgery.
"She is so excited about life now," she said. "She was my best friend, and now we will be able to do so many things together. I'm glad to have my mother back."
Barbara said her mother had always been a strong but compassionate woman.
"My whole life my mother has always been a pillar of strength," she said. "She really cares for others. Recently we watched a show about ovarian cancer, and she just started crying. I asked her what was wrong, and all she could say was, 'Why do people have to be sick like this. It's not fair.'"
Poe said she had trouble getting used to the many medications she would have to take for the rest of her life.
"I have to take 10 different medicines eight times a day," she said. "I even have a chart to keep them all straight. I think my favorite drug is Zantac. That's the one that keeps my stomach from getting upset from all the medication."
Poe said that she would live with the surgery for the rest of her life but was determined not to let it keep her from having as much fun as humanly possible.
"The excitement of my new life will continue because I am that type of person," Poe said. "I am very conscious and aware that there may be problems, but I can't worry about that. There is no time to worry. The rest of my life is a time to be happy.
"I feel like a pioneer. I'll always be the first liver transplant patient in the state of Kansas. I really look forward to helping the second and the third and the fourth and all the others. It is the least I can do."
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even decided.
control from interfering or terminating the current exhibit without further order of the court," Rubin said.
"I'm also going to enjoin each of the defendants, their agents, their employees and anyone under their
Rubin ordered the arts center to give prosecutors a copy of each photograph for use at trial. He also said there was no reason for authorities to interfere with the exhibition, which runs through May 26 and moves to Boston in August.
"You may not recover any photos, you may not close the exhibit to the public, you may not take any action that could be intimidating in nature to prevent the public from seeing the exhibit," the judge said.
Rubin said he would file his written opinion today.
Poleh had an obligation to maintain order at the exhibit, which drew more than 3,000 people on opening day Saturday, but that may not be used as an excuse to shut down this exhibit, Rubin said.
Both sides agreed to the order, which will remain in effect while they prepare for trial in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
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