The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 13

THE ONCINNATI ENQUIRERThursday, July 20, 1978 METRO TODAYAREA NEWS A-13' Patient Gets Ajti Eye In Cross-Country Relay Race With Time BY ROLF WIEGAND Enqulrar Reporter Police and airlines personnel in three states teamed up Wednesday to aid doctors attempting to restore the sight of an elderly blind woman. Shortly after 2 p.m. Boone County Police were alerted that an eye donated by the Miami (Fla.) Lions Eye Bank, would arrive at Greater Cincinnati Airport. The organ, packaged In a glass container and Insulated with Styro-foam, was en route to Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati for a corneal transplant. state Delta Air Lines manager, said.

"We carry them free in the cockpit with the captain to make sure they arrive without any mix-ups," Allen said. other organs," Cincinnati Police Sgt. Joe Kline said. i Usually the organ is taken directly to a hospital, Kline said. But this time Cincinnati police took the eye to the doctor's office in downtown Cincinnati.

The doctor arranged for the eye to be taken to Deaconess Hospital where, Wednesday night, he began the four-hour operation to restore sight to his elderly patient. foreign tissue at any time, said Mii Virginia Younger, night supervisor" at Deaconess. "This Is not an uncommon thing," Mrs. Younger said. "It ts happening quite frequently now." She asked that the doctor, who is a member of the Deaconess Hospital staff, and the patient involved in the operation remain unidentified.

"The big thing," Mrs. Younger said, "is the co-operation between the air lines and the Kentucky and Cincinnati police. "We think they are doing a beau- tiful job and that the people should know about it." CGSlcro8 ncus THE TRIP had to be a fast one. The, tissue was fresh from a and had to be transplanted within 24 hours, said Mrs. Patsy Carnahan, of the Lions Eye Bank.

The Miami eye bank was asked for the organ because the doctor at Deaconess seeking it previously worked at the Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, she said. "There are eye banks sprinkled around the United States," Mrs. Carnahan said. "All eye banks work together to fill the needs." Boone County Patrolman Jerry L. Crowder was dispatched to the airport to pick up the organ from Delta Air Lines Flight 742.

"The airlines try to co-operate in these things," Larry Allen, assistant CROWDER PICKED up the vital cargo at the jet and sped north on the Interstate toward the Queen City, his lights and siren on. Cincinnati police were alerted to rendezvous with the officer at the north end of the Brent Spence Bridge. "We have done this before with THE PATIENT might be allowed to go home within days of the transplant, but her body might reject the Patio Porch Enclosures Boys Burned By Transformer Explosion SALE Enioy family picnics and barbecues or just relax and watch television. Live outside and forget about annoying Insects and bad weather. As Ohio's largest enclosure manu facturer we offer the highest qualify al low prices.

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They were being treated in the burns and trauma unit of General Hospital. AUTHORITIES SAID the two boys and two other youngsters, Mike and Lisa Sackenheim, brother and sister of Steve, were playing near the city transformer when Steve apparently lost his balance and fell onto it. As he fell, authorities said, he grabbed a wire which came loose, causing a ball of fire to shoot from the transformer. The Barrett boy, who was standing near the transformer, was burned by the ball of fire, authorities said. Mike and Lisa, who were seated on a nearby coping, were not injured, but Lisa was splattered with paint when several tubes of paint nearby exploded.

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