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Show Burn Patient Feted At Med. Center Party : I ' s ' y. ' 1 ; I 1 c " I 4- ' 1 f ' 11 i III -ii - is ..' I Li i J ' 5 " ' ; ' i -i: f I By CAMILLA MINER Patients, employees and staff of the University Medical Center celebrated its first year of operation opera-tion with a party yesterday in the Center's cafeteria. A huge birthday birth-day card and a cake were made for the event, and little Grant Kay Hunsaker Jr., the first patient transferred trans-ferred from the old County Hospital Hos-pital to the new facility, returned for the festivities. HE WAS the hit of the show. Grant blew out the candle on the cake for newsmen- as his mother, Mrs. Frances Hunsaker, remembered remem-bered how he enjoyed his stay in the hospital and how good the nurses were to him. Two weeks after his sixth birthday, birth-day, on March 31, 1965, Grant was playing with matches in his parents' garage when one fell in a can of paint thinner. Frightened by the fire which resulted, he kicked the can causing the flaming liquid to splash all over him. HOSPITALIZED in the old County Coun-ty Hospital with second and third degree burns over 80 of his body, Grant lost his left leg as a result of the burns. On July 10th, cute, dark-haired Grant was transferred to the Uni- versity Hospital and received a plaque from Dean Kenneth B. Castleton of the College of Medicine Medi-cine and a gift from Governor Calvin Cal-vin Rampton for being the first patient in the new hospital. A PATIENT there until September Septem-ber 5, 1965, Grant is well remembered remem-bered by the staff. Mrs. Beatrice Jensen, clerk on Grant's ward, says he was a very good patient though he was in a lot of misery, undergoing under-going surgery 27 times. "He was a top little guy. We all loved and spoiled him," she says. DR. BURT MOOR took care of Grant from his admittance until May 2nd. During two months of this time Grant was on the critical list. Grant especially remembers Dr. Moor. Asked what he liked best about his stay in the hospital, Grant said, "I'd get pork chops." Since his release Grant has led a relatively normal life for a seven-year-old. A student at Forest Elementary Ele-mentary School, he tells interested parties that he had "three girl friends, but two gave up." He adds sage seven-year-old advice on how to attract girls "The only way to catch them is with a rope." Grant Kay Hunsaker Jr. gives his friend, University Univer-sity Hospital Administrator Vernon L. Harris the scoop on the "two girl friends who gave up" during the Medical Center's first birthday party. |