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Silver family donates two kidneys ‘We felt a spiritual satisfaction’

Many need kidney transplants

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – It’s unusual to find one person willing to give up a kidney for another. But Newport is home to two people – Tom and Robin Silver – who each donated kidneys.

Despite a painful recovery period, neither regret the move and both wish more people would donate kidneys.

“It came down to do I care about people or not,” Tom said.

“The only way to make the world better is to do things in our own world that makes things better.”

“It was the right thing to do,” Robin says. “It was an incredibly positive experience for the whole family.”

Robin donated a kidney to Blaine Bauer, a former Newport High School math teacher who had been undergoing dialysis.

Bauer’s brother was initially going to donate a kidney, but it wasn’t functioning right, so he wasn’t able to donate.

When Robin found out, she called Bauer and told him she would donate her kidney.

After nine months of extensive tests, including psychological testing, she was approved to be a donor. She had the operation June 2, 2007.

The operation went well, but live kidney transplants are far harder on the donor than the recipient.

“Recovery is wicked,” Robin said. “The first three weeks were really tough.”

After six weeks, she was ready

SPOKANE – There are 96,000 people in Washington state in need of a kidney, says Lynn Seehorn, transplant director at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center.

“The need is more now than in the past,” she says. That’s partially because there are fewer deceased donors because there are fewer head injuries from auto wrecks because of improvements in auto safety.

Even if people don’t want to donate organs while they are alive, Seehorn urges people to give permission for their organs to be used once they’re dead.

“They can help,” she says. Tissue, eyes, skin, bone, hearts, lungs and livers are among the things that can be transplanted. to return to her job at Super 1 Foods in Sandpoint.

“I definitely wasn’t 100 percent,” she said.

Still, she has no regrets about giving a kidney to Bauer.

“If anyone deserved a second chance, it was him,” she said. In addition to teaching school for many years, he was active in his church, and he and his wife took in foster children, she said.

Bauer died in September of complications from throat cancer.

She went to his funeral and family members expressed appreciation for her sacrifice.

Tom watched his wife go through the process.

“It was hard at first for me to watch her in pain,” he said.

But the pain eased and he saw how much difference donating a kidney meant to both the recipient and donor. When Robin’s cousin needed a kidney, he signed up.

The cousin ended up getting

another kidney. Tom still wanted to donate, however, so he signed up to be an ‘altruistic donor.’

An altruistic donor doesn’t know the recipient. It is rare, says Lynn Seehorn, transplant director at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, where the transplant took place.

“We’ve been doing transplants since 1981 and we’ve only had nine altruistic donors,” she said.

There have been more than 1,200 kidney transplants at Providence Sacred Heart – about See Donors,8B Miner photo|Don Gronning

Robin Silver donated a kidney to Newport teacher Blaine Bauer. The Bauers gave her the painting called Heavenly Hands by Greg Olsen. She is pictured with the painting and a certificate of appreciation. She was the 936th person to take part in a kidney transplant at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane.

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Tom Silver is one of the few people who have donated a kidney to a complete stranger. He said he would do it again. “To me it’s a miracle of modern day science,” he said.

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She shared her history of gestational diabetes with her daughter’s doctor and a note was made in her daughter’s health record. Holly also made sure a note was made in her own health record as well.

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“Now’s the time to get a flu shot so you’re protected all season long,” Washington state health officer Dr. Maxine Hayes said.

“Vaccine is the best protection we have against the flu. Getting it now, before people around you start getting sick, will protect you through the flu season, which usually peaks in January but starts earlier.”

Everyone six months of age and older should get a flu shot.

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50-60 a year, she says. About half the transplanted kidneys come from cadavers and half from live donors.

In the early days of the program, live donors pretty much had to be related to the recipient because anti rejection drugs weren’t as good as they are now. Since about 2000 the anti rejection drugs have improved.

But it is still rare to donate to a stranger.

Robin says she didn’t think Tom would have volunteered if he hadn’t seen her go through the process and how rewarding it was for the family. But once he did, he wanted to give.

“I wish more people would do it,” he says.

The man who received Silver’s kidney, Rick Anhorn, had been on dialysis for 40 months. Getting a new kidney made a real difference in his life.

“It changed my life and it changed me,” he said of the transplant. He said he didn’t realize

how sick he was until he got the new kidney.

Dialysis does only about 5 percent of what a functioning kidney does, he says.

Tom’s recovery wasn’t quite as smooth as Robin’s. Anhorn was discharged from the hospital before Tom was.

“I was out 46 hours after they sewed me up,” Anhorn said.

The operation was on a Tuesday and Rick got out on Thursday, Tom says. “I got pneumonia and didn’t get out until Monday.”

Altruistic donors and recipients don’t know each other and aren’t told anything about each other before the operation. Even afterwards, both have to agree to meet before it can happen.

Both Silver and Anhorn wanted to meet. They talked on the phone and first met at Providence Sacred Heart in September.

“It was really amazing,” Seehorn, the transplant director, said.

It turns out Silver and Anhorn have a remarkable number of things in common.

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For one thing, they’re both tall, When they got close they got a well over 6 feet. They’re about the call from Anhonrn. same age, in their mid 50s. Both “He joked he let my kidney be their parents his GPS,” Silver are from Can- “The only way to make the said. ada. Both men world better is to do things Both Silver and are members Anhorn say they of the Church in our own world that intend to say of Jesus Christ makes things better.” friends. of Latter-day Life after do“It was the right thing to Saints. Both nating a kidney do,” have been isn’t the same married more as it was before.

Robin Silver than once.

For one thing, Both had twin they can’t take siblings who died as babies. anti-inflammatory medicine like “We have a similar sense of Ibuprofen or aspirin. Another humor,” Tom says. thing people who have donated Rick and his wife came to New- kidneys must remember is to port to visit the Silvers recently. drink enough water.

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Both would do it again in a minute.

“If you can make a little difference in the world, why not,” Tom says. “That’s why we we’re here.”

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Long before the snow falls and it looks like winter, ice becomes the invisible hazard that can cause seriousamage if you aren’t prepared. Make sure you have slip-resistant tread on steps, hand rails, proper boots, and for Pete’s sake, don’t wear your slippers for that quick trip outside to grab the paper or the cat! Thirty seconds of forethought can prevent a serious sprain or broken arm...or worse. ...and when the snow does start to accumulate don’t charge out there with your shovel and spend 5 hours without a break. Can you say ‘heart attack’?! At the very least, you’ll be in my office twice a week over Christmas break instead scooting down the ski slopes with your family and friends.

Now is a great time to start a stretch routine or even yoga. Loosen the muscles and warm the ligaments before shoveling or skiing or doing your favorite winter activity.

Fifteen minutes of simple, basic, and focused exercise everyday can make a big difference in how you enjoy this winter!!

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She shared her history of gestational diabetes with her daughter’s doctor and a note was made in her daughter’s health record. Holly also made sure a note was made in her own health record as well.

Holly joined a diabetes prevention program at a local hospital and learned how to have a healthy lifestyle for herself and her family.

She lost weight by making small changes in her daily routine, such as replacing her chocolate snack-cake stash with fresh fruit, preparing more salads, eating smaller portions, and taking daily walks.

In just a few months, Holly’s glucose numbers had returned to a normal level. And thanks to her lifestyle changes, she did not develop gestational diabetes when she became pregnant with her second child.

Today, Holly knows she needs to continue her healthy lifestyle habits and get tested for diabetes at least every three years. Holly continues to work to keep her weight down by doing aerobics and walking with her two kids. She makes sure she and her family maintain a healthy lifestyle by staying physically active and making healthy food choices.

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Get Tested!

Women who develop gestational diabetes have high blood glucose (blood sugar) levels during pregnancy. Immediately after pregnancy, 5 to 10 percent of women with gestational diabetes are found to have diabetes, usually type 2. All women with gestational diabetes should be tested for diabetes 6 to 12 weeks after their baby is born. In many cases, their blood glucose levels show they are no longer considered to have diabetes at this time.

But what many people don’t realize is that having gestational diabetes increases a woman’s future chances of developing diabetes by 35 to 60 percent.

Any woman who had gestational diabetes should get tested for diabetes and pre-diabetes at least every three years. This follow up testing is very important and usually consists of a simple blood test.

Women with a history of gestational diabetes should also talk to their health care provider about earlier screening for gestational diabetes in future pregnancies. Children born from a mother who had gestational diabetes are at increased risk for obesity and diabetes, so it’s a good idea for mothers to let their child’s doctor know that they had gestational diabetes and take steps to promote healthy habits for their child.