Waiting for transplant hard
KLAMATH FALLS (AP) — A
20-year-old Klamath Falls man
who underwent a heart-lung
transplant says the waiting was
the hardest part.
“The wait was the hardest
part of the whole thing,” said
Monty Baxter, who returned
home last weekend nearly three
months after receiving a new
heart and lungs at the Stanford
University Hospital.
“Once 1 got my call to go to
surgery, the wait was over. We
knew when we could go
home.”
Baxter said he was sorry the
operation forced him to miss
deer hunting season, but he was
playing golf and racquetball
and looking forward to shooting
waterfowl.
That was quite a change from
two years ago, when he was
unable to keep up with fellow
students in physical education
classes at Klamath Union High
School.
He was diagnosed as suffer
ing from pulmonary hyperten
sion, or high blood pressure in
the blood vessels of the lungs.
In January he traveled with
his mother, April Baxter, to
Palo Alto, Calif., to be close to
the hospital while waiting for a
donor. In July he underwent six
hours of surgery.
“When I went down there I
was really scared about it,”
Baxter said. “But once I got
down there and started talking
to the doctors, everything just
seemed to work out the way we
hoped in the beginning. But we
really didn't know if it would.”
Interest in ROTC growing
College backgrounds may prepare some
people for work in the private sector, but
others march to the beat of a different drum.
One alternative is the Reserve Officer
Training Corps program, a division of the ar
my that trains college students for a military
career, says senior Steve Hansen. And student
interest in the program is growing, Hansen
says.
Approximately 150 students are involved
with ROTC in some capacity at the Universi
ty, he says. Twenty-five percent of them are
women.
What ROTC does, Hansen says, is em
phasize teamwork and leadership. "We are not
here to carry rifles but to learn to lead and
manage,” he says.
Cadets are in charge of the campus pro
gram to learn and teach the basic skills of an
officer in the military — leading, organizing
and conducting training.
“The emphasis is to produce high-tech
qualified personnel, he says.
Any student can enter the first two years
of the program through the University’s
military science department without commit
ment to the military, Hansen says. If students
continue in the program into their third year of
college, they must decide whether or not to
contract with the army, he says.
At this point the student under contract
with the army can opt for either the National
Guard or the United States Army Reserve, he
says.
The student also can apply for army
scholarships that can run for up to four years.
Students completing the program enter
the service with the rank of second lieutenant,
he says. Thirty-one seniors and 34 juniors
make up the program’s leadership this year,
Hansen says.
Any student interested in the ROTC pro
gram or scholarships can visit the ROTC office
at 1679 Agate St.
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