European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dis figuration. Takes about 20 minutes. To receive she eyes in the lob and examine the Cornea through Iho spa might. Ii it is acceptable we remove it and Send to right away to Iho next recipient on the list. If nol it is used in research none is washed our procedure lakes about 20 minutes As Well. To maintain the recipient Lis by computer. The Corneas go out first come Fust served unless there s 0 priority such As someone Tang in danger of losing the Enilio Eye because of an Accident the doctor Romov is Iho damaged portion of the patient Scyoc Wilh an  ended a Trephina sort of a cookie Cutter he cuts Oul the donor Cornea with inc same instrument so Ihu  his exactly. To works through a Hirth pow Rod Microscope and stitches it in Wilh Nylon thread liner than a human hair. He can do inc operation in his Nfn of using local anaesthesia in he chooses. Some patients can see when the bandages come Oil the next Day. With others it s Mote gradual. What to do hero is the easy part. The hard part is getting the  even Many doctors Well aware of the need Are often reluctant to approach a Lami Lyal the moment of their Griel to ask permission to remove their loved one s organs. The result is the loss in America each year of an Cost imaged 18,000 to 20,000 potential kidneys livers hearts lungs and other organs but especially eyes. Since the eyes do not have to be removed As urgently the brain dead body docs nol have to be maintained artificially and the Cornea May Wail Lour or five Days Bolero transplanting to prevent this loss. Avo years ago new York Cal Lornia and Oregon enacted Laws nol simply encouraging hut requiring thai hospitals. Where 80 percent of americans die. Make Hal painful request of the bereaved. Since then All except eight Stales Idaho Wyoming South Dakota Vermont South Carolina. Iowa Alabama and Utah have passed similar required request Laws. New York among other Stales sends Oul Counselor including Iho energetic a Fth to teach nurses and other Hospital workers How to make the Dot Cate request they have discovered that m Many cases Iho request actually com lords a family since they can feel Iho Fol alive lives on through someone else there is one final act of love you can do far your beloved one Hospital chaplain tells sorrowing relatives others approach a relative with a gentle question do you know whether the person was an Eye donor two thirds of those asked say  says Dahl since the Law 5 enactment donations to the now York Eye Bank increased 78 percent " is it nol enough a decade ago Only 7.000 corneal transplants were performed in the United Stales but eyes judged beyond repair Back then cart now to restored. Last year 35.000 americans received corneal transplants and another 5,000 who needed them lacked donors. Doctors say that technology continues to develop and today s demand could double in the next decade i Don t know whether we Ever will have a Cornea immediately or everybody who needs one but that s the goal Dahl says until it happens Well continue to be a Bank in name Only. No deposits hero Only withdrawals Erma Bombeck Cornea being packed in ice with Eye Chart in rear below a Cornea protected in a plastic Container with preservative in the vice grip of a Slit a lamp device used to inspect Corneas. People throughout inc world have heard a Tot about weaponry in the last few weeks As leaders of two nations discussed disarmament it reminded me that a Low weeks ago As 1 was walking through an Airport terminal i saw an exhausted Mother dragging the dead weight of a screaming 2 year old behind her. As our eyes Mel. She Bugle Ned and shouted you understand Don t you i nodded and said. Courage  there is nol a Molher Reading this column who does not relate to the awesome Force of a 2-year-Otd. Weight around 25 pounds when land based has an operational Fange of three to 10 Miles requires minimum Tuel. Is stockpiled globally and deploys whenever the mood strikes this sounds dramatic but i have seen one Small 2 year old bring 130 people on an air plane to the Edge of valium just by crying non Slop for live hours. I have witnessed firsthand what happens o a earful of Madcap fun suck cars Oil on a Giddy Holiday when a 2 year old kicks Tho seat Lor 450 Miles and whines i wanta sit by the  from inc age of 2 to 3. Youngsters arc endowed Wilh an extraordinary strength they can move a piano to gel to a Penny a was dropped behind it they can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the Bathtub they can scale a Wall to get to the cupboard with the bananas. They can Bend a television Aerial in half on a roof Wilh their Bare hands. The strength is Short lived in another couple of years they will be incapable of picking up towels of the door and putting them on the rack or holding their own Heads up at the Able As they Eal. But during this year there is nothing they cannot do if they set their minds to it. They Are also equipped with Maneu vers that would t work for anyone else in the world. These Are graphic saturday june 4,19b8 displays that leave nothing to the imagination the Inmai scream squeezing in and Oulom he lists combo sends every Mother in the world scrambling to give them whatever it is Lay want. The Sil in tache is used by a 2-year-Otd who wants to be earned or go in the opposite direction. He will simply plop Down in the Middle of wherever and refuse to move. Anyone younger would be loll Al Home. Anyone older would be arrested but in works for a a year old the most Elfe chive attack is the waterworks number t hey simply open up the tear ducts and let them flow Lor As Long As tears Are of Lclive. This is accompanied by a sound of unbelievable decibels if this sound belonged to an Airliner it would nol be allowed to land or Fly Over any an porn in the country two year Olds theuil mate weapon and Reagan and Gorbachev never even mentioned them. Page 17the stars and stripes