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Subject: more grist for msg 0014
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 12:06:39 PDT

[ This header text from message #0014.6 should be of interest to everyone,
  so it is being sent directly to the entire cryonics mailing list. - KQB ]

Before responding, I want to thank Saul for his help arranging airline 
transportation for transport team members for the latest suspension 
and another one pending.  Saul also transported our contract surgeon 
from and back to the airport. 

I also want to thank Paul Wakfer for spending six hours at a critical 
juncture weighing out perfusate components while Hugh Hixon was 
completely swamped with getting a second remote standby kit together 
and shipped. 

It seems that no matter how high the level of animosity, we can still 
bury the hatchet (temporarily) and put our patients' need first. 

I suppose I owe an explanation as to the delay in responding to these 
posts.  It is now Sunday morning, June 28.  I am partly caught up on 
sleep after 10 hours in the sack, interrupted by a call at a little 
after 5 am that the nearby 7.4 earthquake had not damaged anything at 
the Riverside facility. 

Last Tuesday evening a call came through that either Arel or I was 
needed in Colorado.  Tanya was already there on standby for a patient.  
The patient had taken a turn for the worse, and was expected to 
deanimate within hours.  Arel was out of touch, (doing research in the 
Stanford library) so I dropped our daughter at Naomi Reynolds' place 
and joined Mike Darwin and Carlos Mondragon as they changed planes in 
San Francisco. (Naomi would have gone, but she had a final exam the 
next day.)  The patient did undergo legal death by the middle of the 
next afternoon (Wed.).  The transport went marginally ok (as measured 
by the level of glycerol we were able to get into him later) but we 
sure had a lot of problems.  More detail will be provided later.  

While we were on standby, another member got into serious trouble on 
the east coast.  Arel left on Wednesday for standby and is not 
expected back until the middle of the week at soonest.  She normally 
edits my more serious postings.  Please forgive spelling/grammatical 
errors I miss. 

The transport team and the patient from Colorado went to Riverside, 
where the cryoprotective perfusion was completed late Thursday. Mike 
and Tanya left and flew out before the perfusion was done to the east 
coast for the other standby, and two days later Carlos recruited Steve 
Bridge to join them to relieve some of the local people who had to go 
back to work.  I stayed over Friday in Riverside for cleanup and some 
limited autopsy work on the patient to see what had gone wrong in the 
transport, and flew home Saturday morning.  I went straight to my "day 
job" so they could some critical product checked out for shipment 
Monday.  It has been a zoo. 

Keith Henson

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