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Baby needs donor kidney
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system is too weak and he’s
prone to infections.
“His doctors don’t want him in
a public facility,” Karol Vaughn
said.
That’s also why Gore hasn’t
been to any family gathering
during Thanksgiving and
Christmas seasons.
“He is still getting used to his
family,” his mother said. “We
couldn’t take him to family
groupings. One of us would
have to stay (with Gore) and one
would be able to go.”
Karol Vaughn said Glore can’t
go outside often in winter
because of his weak immune
system. “He also tires quicker
than most children,” she said.
“He’s not around a lot of chil
dren, so he can interact socially.
He picks up everything.”
Despite it all. Gore is a “very
happy baby,” Karol Vaughn
said.
“His attitude is good. Even
when he is sick, he’s happy.
With what he has been through,
a little thing is not as bad.
Unlike most babies, when (his
temperature) is 102, he is up
because that’s good for him.”
Gore can use an adult liver,
which would be trimmed to fit,
or he can take a baby’s liver.
That could work to his advan
tage on the national registry for
Uver donors.
“They want to find one that’s
right for him,” his mother said.
However, Karol Vaughn said,
there are two teenagers on the
list who are sicker than Gore
and wovrld get priority.
“They told us some people
have been on the list for years,
but once you have been on the
list one time, it does not take
long,” she said.
Karol Vaughn said doctors
still aren’t sure what caused
Gore’s rare condition. Family
histories reveal no genetic pat
tern.
Gore will undergo another
roimd of tests and treatments,
including a biopsy beginning
Monday.
“They want to see if something
has developed to say what
caused it in the first place,”
Karol Vaughn said. “They want
to see if there have been any
changes, any improvements.
“They really try to put off
JaU conditions concern
NAACP officials
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“I know everything they say is
not true, but when you go up to
the top and down to the bottom
and everyone says the same
thing, you've got to say, ‘Hey,
something’s wrong,’” she said.
Sheriff Gerald Hege wondered
how Hargrave and other
NAACP members could find
such a drastic change in so short
a time. He said that conditions
are much the same as they were
two years ago.
“A month ago, they couldn't
find anything wrong,” Hege
said. “Every jail, regardless how
clean or modem, when you put
in 200 guys, they’re going to get
head lice, bed lice. You’ve got
everything when you coop up
everyone together.”
Hege has been criticized in the
past for some of his policies,
which he says are designed to
make inmates not want to
return. County commissioners
are working with an architect
on jail expansion and renova
tions to correct problems
blamed on the jail’s age and
small size.
Hege said the jail is cleaned
and jailers do their best with
the old brrilding.
That he let Hargrave’s group
torrr the jail even though then-
visit was unannounced shows
he has nothing to hide, Hege
said.
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doing transplants as long as
possible, because the medicine
and stuff they have to take the
rest of their life is so hard on
their body. The transplant will
only be ihe beginning. The first
year is spent going in and out of
the hospital because the body is
getting used to the new liver.
You have to take medicines to
suppress illness. Those are hard
on the body. He will have to
take them the rest of his life.”
At this point, securing a new
liver is most important, Karol
Vaughn says.
‘Tf he gets a liver, he will have
a normal life. He may not be
able to play football or hockey,
but otherwise he will have basi
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“HeTl have to watch his diet. If
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