Roses & Holly
Salem News, Ohio
Roses and sprigs of holly for the world not ending at 6:11 a.m. on Friday. The fruitcakes (the real ones and not the, er, unusual tasting could double-as-door stops kind your aging out-of-state aunt sent the family every year) twisted the Mayan calendar around. They were loudly proclaiming a pending doomsday. That would have ruined a lot of Christmases. Somewhere in the hereafter, a lot of Mayans are laughing.
Roses and sprigs of holly for a most wonderful of Christmas gifts. An organ donation. Angie Pitts is a Salem High graduate. She is the daughter of Alicia and Bob Pitts and lives in Alliance. She works at the Chef's Table in Lisbon and has a son, Mac, in the fifth grade. Angie will soon be spending some time in the hospital along with her uncle, Rob Mehno. You might know Rob. An excellent superintendent of schools for Leetonia and an excellent person. He is badly in need of a kidney transplant. He knows the drill. It will be his second transplant. The first came back some 27 years ago.
The 1983 SHS graduate a key member of that great Quaker football team of Gary Ricker, another excellent person - had actually gone an entire year without a kidney after having both removed as a young man. After being on a machine for a year, he received a kidney in 1986. But after all these years, its function dwindled, necessitating another transplant. Several family matches were actually made and it was determined that Angie - in her mid-3os - because of her age was the right candidate. She will give her own Christmas gift of life to her uncle this Friday in Cleveland at University Hospital. There is a rejection possibly and of infections and complications arising. But all systems are a go. This also means that Angie will be left with but one kidney and a full life ahead of her. There is always a risk involved. That makes her act even more impressive. Here's to a successful transplant and many more wonderful Christmases for Angie, Rob and all of their family members. This will be one to remember.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Roses and sprigs of holly for the world not ending at 6:11 a.m. on Friday. The fruitcakes (the real ones and not the, er, unusual tasting could double-as-door stops kind your aging out-of-state aunt sent the family every year) twisted the Mayan calendar around. They were loudly proclaiming a pending doomsday. That would have ruined a lot of Christmases. Somewhere in the hereafter, a lot of Mayans are laughing.
Roses and sprigs of holly for a most wonderful of Christmas gifts. An organ donation. Angie Pitts is a Salem High graduate. She is the daughter of Alicia and Bob Pitts and lives in Alliance. She works at the Chef's Table in Lisbon and has a son, Mac, in the fifth grade. Angie will soon be spending some time in the hospital along with her uncle, Rob Mehno. You might know Rob. An excellent superintendent of schools for Leetonia and an excellent person. He is badly in need of a kidney transplant. He knows the drill. It will be his second transplant. The first came back some 27 years ago.
The 1983 SHS graduate a key member of that great Quaker football team of Gary Ricker, another excellent person - had actually gone an entire year without a kidney after having both removed as a young man. After being on a machine for a year, he received a kidney in 1986. But after all these years, its function dwindled, necessitating another transplant. Several family matches were actually made and it was determined that Angie - in her mid-3os - because of her age was the right candidate. She will give her own Christmas gift of life to her uncle this Friday in Cleveland at University Hospital. There is a rejection possibly and of infections and complications arising. But all systems are a go. This also means that Angie will be left with but one kidney and a full life ahead of her. There is always a risk involved. That makes her act even more impressive. Here's to a successful transplant and many more wonderful Christmases for Angie, Rob and all of their family members. This will be one to remember.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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