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« on: October 25, 2007, 10:17:46 PM »
This will give you an idea as to the kind of person my dad is!  He is the custodian and boiler operator at Brighton Elementary in the Rainier Valley in Seattle.  This hawk got into the play court at the school and the kids were messing with it.  He was afraid that they would get hurt so he trapped it in a box but then it got loose in his office.  Watch the video.

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_102006ENBhawkrescueEL.5a3dae1c.html
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
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Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm.  Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm.  Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel.  The prognosis is not good.  Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse.  Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital.  Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
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« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2007, 10:43:47 PM »
YOU HAVE A MAGNIFICENT DAD!!! :2thumbsup; :clap; :bow;
My Dad went to heaven 3 yrs. ago, i really miss him.

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« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2007, 11:38:32 PM »
Wonderful story  :thumbup;
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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2007, 12:25:40 AM »
Krisna, your dad sounds so cool!!! Great story!!!
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« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2007, 03:26:47 AM »
Quote from: MyssAnne on October 26, 2007, 12:25:40 AM
Krisna, your dad sounds so cool!!! Great story!!!

He is!  All my friends always liked him.  And my sisters' friends did too!  My dad's always been a nature lover.  When I five he was in the woods cutting down trees (before the laws were passed that put a stop to that) and there was a family of chipmunks in the tree.  The mama and two babies ran out but one baby got left behind.  When the tree came down the baby still in it wound up with a broken leg.  My dad brought it home and called every vet he could find in the phone book and they all told him the same thing, "We can't do anything for you!  It's against the law to take wild animals from their natural habitat.  You have to take it back to where you found it!"  My dad was like, "It'll die!"  And they said, "That's nature."

Well, he didn't take it back right away.  He splinted the broken leg and finally found a vet who would at least tell him what to feed it.  So we nursed it back to health and when the leg was healed we took it back to the exact spot it had come from!  I had named it "Feller".  lol 
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Nov. 1979 - Diagnosed with glomerulonephritis of unknown origin by Dr. Robert
                  Hickman
Dec. 1979 - Diagnosed with Viral Pneumonia
Late Dec. 1979 - Emergency surgery to place a Scribner Shunt in left arm for dialysis
Jan. 1980 - Start hemodialysis until recovered from viral pneumonia
Feb. 27, 1980 - Receive 5 antigen living related transplant from father
Mar. 3, 1987 - PTH removed and part of one placed in left arm.  Fistula also placed in right arm.
Sept. 1988 - Start hemodialysis
Feb. 4, 1989 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Jan. 1994 - Return to hemodialysis
Oct. 18, 1996 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Nov. 22, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm to artery in kidney
Dec. 20, 1996 - Emergency surgery to repair aneurysm.  Kidney removed due to infection which has spread down right leg to abt mid thigh.
Apr. 1997 - Arterial bypass surgery to restore arterial blood flow to right leg
July 29, 1998 - Receive 6 antigen perfect match cadaveric transplant
Sept. 6, 2002 - Return to hemodialysis
Dec. 7, 2002 Sm. intestine ruptures while home alone. Still conscious upon arrival at hospital.
Dec. 8. 2002 - Surgery to repair ruptured bowel.  The prognosis is not good.  Surgeon tells family to prepare for the worse.  Spend a week in a coma and 3 months in hospital.  Takes abt a year and a half to completely recover.
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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2007, 04:07:53 AM »
Great story. Thanks for sharing.
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« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2007, 01:28:50 PM »
That was a great video and it's great seeing your dad now. I used to deal with hawks when I was a vet assistant and they are beautiful creatures!
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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2007, 02:18:18 PM »
Wonderful story!
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« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2007, 03:59:57 PM »
Your dad is a hero in his own way,  :bow;  Thank you for sharing that with us Krisna  :2thumbsup;  Amazing  :clap;
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