Show Ross Waits F For or Call From Docs DocsA A former Trade Tech student is awaiting a a telephone call that could mean a long healthy life is before him Until that call comes Ross Weaver may continue to lose blood at the rate of two vo pints a week because of a kidney ailment that has troubled him since he was in inthe inthe inthe the eighth grade Ross 21 was vas an evening barbering barbering barbering barber- barber ing student until his illness forced him to withdraw v from school re re- re- re He is awaiting a a telephone call from the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center informing him that a kidney is a- a for transplantation into his body If the kidney transplant is a Ross should have no more problems with blood loss or the nausea and swelling caused by the kidney disorder Some blood has been donated by his friends to replace that which he has from an Ogden hospital Students and faculty members have been asked to donate blood in Ross' Ross name to help replace that which he has used or orvill will vill use in inthe inthe inthe the future The Red Cross will accept accept accept ac ac- blood in his name Ross' Ross mother was vas prepared to donate one of her kidneys to her herson herson herson son but surgeons found before the operation was vas to be performed that an artery difference would make that transplant questionable So they cancelled it Friends offered to donate kidneys but surgeons discouraged this because they want to transplant a kidney that would be likely to take So they are waiting for a favorable favorable favorable favor favor- able donor in California When they have a kidney ready to transplant transplant transplant trans trans- plant the telephone will ring in Ross' Ross home in Ogden The caller will vill tell him its it's time tinIe timeto timeto to hop a plane for California Until then Ross is living an optimistic life A lot of people have told me that I might not make it he said Im going to be all right |