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WHEN THE GRADS GO MARCHING IN Gillian Torok-Both and Nathan Yu arrive at Cowichan Secondary School’s graduation banquet last Saturday, with a New Orleans-style trumpet player announcing them and other RV passengers with a rendition of When the Saints Go Marching In. See page 15 or visit cowichanvalleycitizen.com for more photos from the event. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Policy complicating life-saving transplant unpredictable liver disease, and has been at the Stollery ChilA seven-month-old baby from dren’s Hospital in Edmonton Lake Cowichan is in desperate awaiting a transplant since May 6. need of a liver transplant, but Several family members stepped policies in Alberta, where the forward as potential donors, but transplant will have to be per- finding a perfect match has been formed, are preventing her from a challenge. Her mother, Meregetting one from an anonymous dith, has too large of a liver to be an ideal donor. Her father, Curtis, living donor. N a o m i C a r l ow wa s b o r n has been tested to see it he is a South SouthCowichan CowichanEcho BannerAdAd10.5x2.pdf 1 03-24-15 03-24-15 1:15 1:15PMPM match,1but he is most likely too with biliary atresia,Echo aBanner rare and 10.5x2.pdf KEVIN ROTHBAUER CITIZEN
tall to be a donor. Although Naomi comes from a large family, it hasn’t been easy to find someone under the age of 30 with Type-O blood and a slender, petite build. Naomi’s family mounted an online campaign to find an anonymous donor — something that worked recently for two babies in Ontario with the same condition — and although the response was impressive, poli-
cies prevent Alberta Health Services from even doing the initial screening of potential donors. AHS has said they are examining the policy, but even if they change it immediately, it probably won’t help Naomi. One family friend has stepped up to be a donor, but even though she is a better match in size than Meredith, Naomi still has to grow a bit more before the transplant
can occur. Because of her condition, it is nearly impossible to tell if she is growing, and it can only be determined by an MRI. She last checked in at 6.5 kg, and will need to hit 7 kg in order to get the transplant. “We’ve got to wait for her to grow,” Curtis said on the phone from Edmonton on Wednesday. See TRANSPLANT, Page 3
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