European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stripes daily Magazine wife at hit Burl Olbort experience no pain during 10 Houn hooked up to his artificial a plumber takes care of his kidney when i have kidney trouble i usually Call an electrician or a a my kidney is a a Maze of plastic and cellophane and Complex electrical wiring that does the Job my own kidneys no longer Are Able this artificial kidney is my timeline to life until the Ideal in july my kidneys ceased fun no longer filtering from my blood Stream the poisons that accumulate in the life since life hat been sustained by twice weekly treatments on an artificial kidney machine first in the Spokane and Inland Empire artificial kidney Cen then at in my own the club to which i belong u tragically tens of thousands of americans die of idd Aey fallen each while Only about 2n or so Are saved by artificial kidney net Many More than a treat ing themselves at although accept Ance of the form Al treatment is Row while not life on an artificial kidney u near Normal enough so that i want to go on living even the worst Days Are brightened by the Hope and conviction that a Solu Tion is on the All i need to do is hold living one Day at a transplant must be the ultimate Solu to kidney admittedly it is not yet except in extreme cases where there la no Hope but soon it will be until the artificial kidney 1s the beet available the kidney machine has become As much a part of my life eating and i am aware of ii the instant i Aad it Alwais is the last thing of my mind when i Drift off be Mordi 1966 by Burlap Sloff writer i have undergone treatment for the last 18 months and unlike some physicians who claimed the machine trans forms its patients into Mere i am convinced i can carry on a relatively Normal i am Able to work full without upsetting office routine with sick and my social life has not suffered in much of he difficulty in expanding use of artificial kidneys is caused by a Lack of Public a Man in Green wrote to the after Reading a newspaper he 11yearold daughter suffered from car uric the same disease that destroyed the functioning of the doctors seem to shy away from the he say All it will do is keep you that quite ail the machine will do is keep the patient but that quite a its up to the it is the heart or the cancer a or the polio make that life Cost is a if somewhat obstacle be More widespread use of the it costs from loss per year per patient for Lac enter depending of the location of the at the Cost can be reduced to about a but that still is an awesome figure for most and above the Cost of and that Doest include the Cost of the equip which can run up to about the big problems whether the treatment will whether i can live wedded to a Are not the treatment has been proven and i know now i can live with the Ive done it for a Long time since my wife and i began Home daily or last i have never required an emergency visit by a phys it has been Well Over a since my original in i have claimed sick pay for missed Iii is not to say there Are no medi Cal they crop up and for some no answer can be itch ing is a symptom common to almost All restlessness is there Are drugs to relieve but they cannot be occasionally one or both of the can plastic tubes that provide a reusable Access to a vein and artery fails to function properly and must be moved to another location on an Arm or this involves Only minor but these Are troubles a patient can live and continue almost normally on his a close watch mint be kept of the makeup of the blood fre quent analyses Are made of the amounts of Calci phosphorus and these can be adjusted by varying Ibe amount used la Ibe chemical solution that is part of the diet is a but not an insurmountable my diet must be As nearly Sal free As and liquid intake must be restricted my total fluid including water and liquids used in should be some thing less than u quart every 24 one Days allotment of protein is u about the amount found in four or four ounces of Salt substitutes Are taboo because they Aro made principally of potassium Anc that taboo but there Are lots of Union juice adds flavor to vinegar sea sons a Little Jelly lends taste to a Sal free there Are All sorts of prepared Sal free food on the shelves including crackers and vege combined with a Little ingenuity on the part of the household can add up to an attractive diet my wife Louella in addition to chief a combination technician and her nursing duties include keeping tabs on weight and blood two vital guides to if there is a weight gain of More than two pounds Between it usually indicates too much body this also often causes a higher blood pres if too much weight is lost during a blood pressures sometimes can drop too if both weight and Hood pressure remain fairly its a Good bet the treatment is going u it to lome treatment does involve and Bat jul b Illus a Jongh sacrifice for Ike Aid evea Foagh my wife and i held run time joke and Admi Aller Ibe Trail Mem Lade Pead pm of Oil Side we Tare Lime for night 01 fee now and or trip to the the actual treatment require about 10 hours plus about two Houn cleaning and preparation that a total of 24 hours a i spend 16 of those saturdays and sundays Are our Oil Days we do monday evening after the double Sand wich of plastic and cellophane Mem Brane is tested for air leaks and filled with a sterilizing that takes about an tuesday the kidney and chemical Bath can be readied for use la 20 and by about i my wife usually is preparing to begin the its really a simple much like a medical my blood is pumped by my own Arter Ial blood pressure through the Plas la tube implanted in an artery in my the blood is channelled through the kid inside the two cellophane Renvel out and Back into my body through a Cannula implanted in a vein la my when not hooked to the a the Cannulae Are connected in a bypass arrangement to permit continuous blood the chemical containing the balanced elements that should be present in my blood Hows inside kidney but outside the cellophane in the blood flows in an opposite direction inside the the stars and stripes asses from the blood Are draw through the membrane and carried away in the this is repeated Over and Over during the after it the Poison level la the blood Stream should be reduced enough to per Mit almost Normal activity until the next my who monitors the equipment Between snatches of sleep through the then disconnects me from the machine and we both sleep for an hour two before leaving automation has Jast Abeal a with the monitoring new equipment includes Etc foal that watch for changes a Meed blood pressure Aad Ether using this both patient and wife can Steep in nigh the entire the evening following a we spend about 30 minutes cleaning the kidney discarding All have come in Contact with thursday we spend another hour preparing for the weeks second run Friday on the More positive Home Dally s offers some big i a not tied to a rigid if i to be out of town for a few no harm i Home treatment leaves a patient relatively tree to move unfettered by ties to a one rancher is treat ing himself successfully at fort Ben another is treated at Home in after training at the Cen Ter in admittedly things could be More con but i i i i and i u