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Show Science-BansWife' s-Right To Give Mate Vital Blood As her husband lay critically ill, a bewildered, gray-haired wife Monday at Holy Cross hospital shuttled between sickroom and laboratory, unable to understand why they would not permit her to aid her husband In the moment he most needed aid. The stricken husband was Herman Her-man P. Kusche, 70, of 645 Willard court. His condition made a blood transfusion immediately necessary. neces-sary. There was no money to pay a donor, but Mrs. Kusche would give some of her own blood. The doctors, doc-tors, however, wer not so enthusiastic en-thusiastic They wer noncommittal noncom-mittal They mad a tsst. then shook their heads. Her blood did not have the right "count." She could not donate. Confused by laboratory tests and the technicalities of blood count, the woman could understand only that they would not let her do the thing that might save her husband's life. Unless some volunteer with the right blood count appears there can be no transfusion, they told her. |