Wait for organs puts patients’ lives on hold
SPOKANE. Wash (AP) —
Edna Ferguson exercises twice a
week, drives a car and mows her
lawn while she waits for a heart
and lung transplant.
The 53-year-old Spokane
woman is hooked to portable
oxygen 24 hours a day and car
ries a beeper waiting for a signal
from Sacred Heart Medical Cen
ter.
"1 want to find lungs and a
heart for her so badly," said
Janet Steele, director of the hos
pital's organ recovery agency.
Ferguson is at the top of
Sacred Heart's waiting list for
heart and lung transplants Typ
ically, there are about a dozen
below her
Ferguson was one of 60
patients at the hospital .Saturday
for a meeting with representa
tives of the United Network of
Organ Sharing, which keeps a
national waiting list and data
base.
Around the country. 35,000
people are waiting for some type
of organ Of those, about 27,000
need kidneys said Liz Pearce,
manager of Sacred Heart's kid
ney transplant program
Andy Rarely. 38. of Spokane
had a kidney transplant at the
hospital in May. Sacred Heart
usually has about 30 patients
waiting for kidneys
During his 10-month wait.
Rarely said, his life was on hold
"I call it hibernation,” he
said "You're awake, but you
don't feel like you're doing any
thing."
Racnly's kidney failed because
of diabetes. Now he needs a
pancreas, which will send him
to Seattle because Sacred Heart
performs only kidney, heart and
lung transplants
Ferguson's need to be close to
the hospital forced her to move
from Colville to Spokane last
year In the last three years, both
of her brothers have diet!, one in
Mississippi and one in New
Hampshire, but she couldn't
attend either funeral.
"You can never make plans."
she said "When you don't com
mit to anything, you're on stand
still. You're on hold."
Pam Hester, who manages the
heart and lung transplant pro
gram at Sacred Heart, said most
patients have remarkable atti
tudes despite their unfortunate
situations.
These are survivors." Hester
said "These are people who
want to live."
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BEND (AP) — When the
goffers' true ks from the new
ABU TV series McKenna started
pulling up on Misty Urbach's
street, she went right down and
asked for a part.
The homemaker and mother
of three quit kly landed herself a
walk-on role as a waitress
"Hopefully. I won't end up on
the cutting room floor." she said
after the scene was finished at
the Pilot Butte Drive-In Restau
rant.
Producer Peter Dunne wants
folks who live in this high desert
vacation wonderland to feel as if
McKenna is their show, and giv
ing locals a chance to see them
selves on TV is one way to do it.
"The rose is very much on the
bloom here and we work hard to
keep it that way," Dunne said
between takes
Lured partly by a $300,000
package of incentives put togeth
er by the Oregon Film and Video
Office and local boosters,
McKenna is one of two prime
time television series shot in
Oregon this year The other.
Under Suspicion, films in the
Portland ansa
McKenna, which airs at 9 p.m.
PST on Thursdays, stars Chad
Everett, !«*st known for his role
as Dr Joe Gannon in the 1970s
series Medical ('enter, as adven
ture outfitter Jai k McKenna.
Mi Kenna Wilderness Outfitters,
the family business, offers city
slickers a chance to change their
lives through the wonders of the
great outdoors.
Eric Close plays his son, Brick
McKenna, who comes home and
helps with the family business
after trying to make it in stock
cur racing. Torn apart by the
death of Brick's older brother,
father and son are trying to make
their peace.
Shawn Huff plays the widow
of the eldest McKenna son, Jen
nifer Love-Hewitt plays the
rebellious younger sistur. and
Rick Peters portrays Brick's (>est
friend. Jack Kehler plays a polit
ically incorrect hxial whose idea
of a great gift for his wife is a
vacuum cleaner
The series pilot was shot in
New Zealand, but the 12
episodes under contrail are film
ing around Bend, the center of
Oregon's outdoor recreation
boom.
Presented over a tapestry of
fly-casting, whitewater rafting,
rock climbing, and the spectacu
lar beauty of the snowcapped
Cascade Range, the series tries to
create some of the same feelings
as the 1993 movie, A River Runs
Through It. which told the story
of a Montana fly-casting fumily.
“1 think that movie struck a
chord with a lot of people across
America w ho had no idea what
fly-casting was about." Dunne
Mid "And it did to tis What is
that quiet inside of us that all of
a sudden you begin to feel, that
you don't feel every day? That’s
a character in our show
To create that feeling, Mcken
no is shot largely on location —
the Deschutes River, high lakes
in the Cascade Range and the
town of Bend.
The base of operations is the
McKenna Ranch, a big log home
on 18 acres which producers
bought amid the hobby ranches
outside Bend. With Hollywood
magic, they aged the new struc
ture and built a gurgling stream
and pond.
Just as they hope the Nielson
families across the country will
be caught up in McKenna, the
cast has been caught up in the
high desert lifestyle.
Everett has rented a home on
the Crooked River with a spec
tacular view of Smith Rock .State
Park, one of the premier rock
climbing areas in the world, and
the Three Sisters, a string of
snow-covered peaks that domi
nate the skyline.
"When you're out working in
it, you don't have to invent that
wonderful environmental feel,”
Everett said, stretched out in an
easy chair in the living room of
the McKenna Ranch log house.
An accomplished horseman
and hunter, Everett has been
learning rock climbing and had a
new fly rod made for his wife, so
she cun join him casting for trout
in the evenings.
"The two hours I spend down
there, it's cleansing," ho said
Close has learned to guide a
paddle raft through whitewater
and is building on his rock
climbing skills at Smith Rock,
where the show filmed its first
Oregon episode.
"The climbing expert out
there, he and I went out and put
a new route up on Smith Rock,"
Close said. "We haven't put a
name on it yet. We hove one
more bolt to put on it."
He rents a house on o ranch
outside Bend and looks forward
to spending the winter there,
warmed by firewood he cuts.
He camped out while on loca
tion at Todd Lake. “We had a
meteor shower that night. And
that was incredible," Close said.
W'hile most real-life outdoor
outfitters concentrate on a single
sport, such as hunting, fishing,
or whitewater rafting. Jack
McKenna offers his clients the
whole gamut. Everett thinks the
concept might catch on in real
life.
"Some guy has a two-week
vacation and we can really put
a smile on his face,” Everett
said. "It might be a case of life
imitating art "