6 • Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 14 August '85

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Kidney Recipient Seeks To Help Fellow Patients

By TOM FLYNN MAY VILLE - John Mountes considers himself a lucky man. He has a nice home with a supportive wife and four children. He is working toward a business administration degree at Atlantic Community College's Cape May County Extension Center. His bodily functions are performed by the kidney of a person he never met. Mountes feels very fortunate for that kidney transplant, his second. And he wants to use his good fortune to help those who haven't been as lucky • I JUST WANT to give back some of what I've received. I feel guilt^, because I feel so great This transplant has given me a new lease on life," he said. With that feeling of renewed hope, Mountes is campaigning for greater awareness of the problems of kidney patients. His goal is to establish a kidneydialysis unit at Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital in Court House. A unit at Burdette would decrease the travel time and discomfort for the, 12 to 15 countyresidents who are currently transported by a countyvan to Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point for the four-hour treatment ^ three times weekly. ' Mountes said that Burdette should be able to , afford the unit, since its cosLs are paid by Social 1 Security. Also, a dialysis I unit here would decrease ( the summer burden on Shore Memorial, which 1 must add an extra shift to i schedule requests from vacationing kidney patients 1 Ultimately. Mountes i would like to see others have the same opportunity to receive a donated organ, i for which there is a chronic i shortage TO HELP ALLEVIATE that shortage. Mountes 1 distributes donor identification cards, which are

also available at Crest Haven Also, the Division of Motor Vehicles provides a special donor identification box on the back of drivers' licenses, he said. Mountes didn't have to look far for his first kidney donor. His mother gave him one of hers (the body has two. but needs only one to survive) in 1969. He was the 18th person in the nation to undergo a kidney transplant, he said. That stay at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital lasted nearly four months (three months before the operation, three weeks after). It also marked 10 years of kidney troubles for Mountes; he was first diagnosed in 1959, at age 12. His first operation worked well for both he and his mother, then 44. "That worked out so well. It (the kidney) was just a perfect match. And mom's doing fine. She's never been in the hospital for anything," he said. THE TRANSPLANT enabled Mountes to live a normal life. He was married. and he and wife Debbie. a clerk in the county courthouse, have four children: Jackie. 12; Michele. "10; Matthew. 9; and Carl. 6. He worked as a shoe salesman and store manager in Philadelphia. Atlantic City, and Rio Grande, moving to this area six years ago Last November, though, he experienced problems with his kidney, which were probably due to an infection. Three trips weekly to Shore Memorial for dialysis treatments became part of his routine, as did the praying for a new kidney. Mountes carried a beeper, to keep in touch with the Pennsylvania hospital He said the practice is growing among those awaiting a transplant THE CALL he prayed for didn't come over the beeper, though It came at 1 : :U» in the morning of a late

May day. An organ matching his blood type was received, and Mountes quickly headed to Philadelphia * for the transplant. Thanks to major medical advances, including an expensive new anti-rejection drug from Europe, cyclosporin. Mountes said the body's acceptance rate of a kidney from a nonfamily source is about 75 percent today. This more than doubles the 30 percent rate in 1969. A familydonated kidney has a 95 percent chance of being accepted today, compared to the 75 percent rate at the time of his first operation, he added. Mountes credited his wife and children for their roles in his recuperation. He considers his wife more knowledgeable about kidney disease than himself. He said that his battle with a major illness has speeded the maturation process in his children. Still, the children are young and relate to their father's disease as best they can. Mountes said his youngest child, Carl, knew his father's sickness meant he could not eat chocolate, one of the foods denied dialysis patients. When Mountes was being rushed to the hospital for his second transplant, his son asked. "Is this the operation where Daddy can eat chocolate?" Mountes now eats chocolate and#almost anything else. The operation also has permitted him to carry on his campaign to help other patients enjoy the kind of life he feels lucky to lead. I See Coupon For i 50$ OFF I On Classified Page i

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