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Lawrence residents Jill and Dan Blomgren have watched not one, but two of their children undergo liver transplant surgeries. In their own words, the Blomgrens explain how the experience has changed their outlook on organ donation.
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Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at 18-months-old, Heidi Karn Barker received a double-lung transplant on Jan. 4, 2008.
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Sixteen-month-old Addison Whitenight has been on a liver transplant list since May 2007. Her mother Shawna Davis talks about her daughter.
Awaiting their second chance
Liver Transplantation: An inside look
- Transplant recipients revel in new athleticism at games
- July 29, 2010
- Not many people can say they have had a life-changing experience, a live-or-die moment, a miracle.
- Researchers grow lungs in a lab
- June 25, 2010
- Breathe in, breathe out — it may seem simple, but lungs are devilishly complicated structures, boasting more than 40 different cell types and an intricate network of tiny blood vessels and air sacs.
- KU Hospital liver transplant program has record year
- January 19, 2010
- Kansas University Hospital has record year for liver transplants.
- Organ donations ease grieving process
- December 23, 2009
- In death, Carl Arentson passed on the gift of life to four men he never met.
- Lawrence resident’s bone marrow donation gives girl second chance at life
- June 9, 2009
- Lawrence resident Lynn Wilson-Bruce was in Kansas City seven years ago when she and her sister heard a plea on the radio.
- Area resident’s case highlights need for bone marrow donations
- June 9, 2009
- Finding a potential match was a concern among doctors when James Kelley, of Pomona, was diagnosed with leukemia in August 2001. He has a mixed heritage of mainly American Indian and Irish. His sister wasn’t a match, so he turned to the registry.
- Brothers have good bill of health following liver transplants
- April 8, 2009
- Miles Blomgren, 10, and his brother, Aiden, 7, are growing by leaps and bounds and are always ready for a new adventure. That’s pretty typical for boys. But what makes the Blomgren brothers special is that they have overcome progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, an inherited disease that causes progressive jaundice and scarring of the liver.
- Double lung transplant recipient now enjoys ‘normal’ life
- April 8, 2009
- She walks up two flights of stairs and to her cubicle on the second floor of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America in west Lawrence. On the way, Heidi Karn Barker, 25, is talking about her full-time job as a professional development coordinator. Heidi jokes about how she knows more about grass than she ever imagined she would.
- Two-year-old makes strong recovery following transplant
- April 8, 2009
- One year ago, Addison Whitenight was 18 months old and fighting for her life. The Lawrence girl was diagnosed with bilary atresia at the age of 6 weeks. She had a liver disease that caused severe jaundice. She was on a feeding tube 17 hours a day and she had rickets or a softening of the bones. A tumble off the couch caused her to break her left leg and arm. She was in a red-and-blue cast that covered most of her body.
- Kidney transplant recipient grateful for organ donation and life-saving procedure
- April 8, 2009
- Logan Hastings signed up to be an organ donor as soon as he got his driver’s license. He’s always been a believer in giving the gift of life. He just never dreamed that he would be on the receiving end, especially at age 26
- Tonganoxie mom gives son gift of a lifetime
- November 26, 2008
- In coming months, Melissa Ostermeyer will give something to her son, Jacob, for which he’ll be thankful many Novembers to come.
- Lawrence toddler finally gets liver transplant, and ‘it’s working beautifully’
- October 2, 2008
- The call finally came for the little east Lawrence girl who has been fighting for her life.
- A new outlook on life
- Transplant source of inspiration for FSHS senior
- July 12, 2008
- Many mothers choose to pierce their daughters’ ears when they are infants because they believe children that age are too young to remember the pain. Ali Jacobsen’s story takes that notion to a whole different level.
- Transplant recipient completes ascent
- June 29, 2008
- A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago - a dangerous 2 1/2-day climb up the sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park’s famed granite monolith.
- 6News video: Local concert benefits Addison Whitenight
- May 30, 2008
- Every parent will agree that children are a lot of work, but well worth it with each laugh and smile. That has never been more true than for Jeffrey Whitenight and Shawna Davis.
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