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Show Liver donor sought CENTER VILLE Robert 'Montgomery, 'Mon-tgomery, a radar computer technician suffering from a disease he has Jiad since childhood, needs help. He will die unless he receives a liver tranplant in the near future. The Centerville man's lifelong , battle- with ulcerative colitis has scarred his bile ducts, reducing the $125,000, This is why I'm asking for help," he said. LDS Hospital has sej up an account in his name for contributions from ' public and private sources. Because Montgomery has suffered from colitis all of his life his liver has accumulated too much iron and doc-tors doc-tors report that he only has 15 percent of liver function left, F " At the present time Montgomery is still able to work and is employed as a radar computer technician at the Salt .Lake Airport and has been for 31 . years. ; Once he gets enough money to get on the list it still could be several weeks to months until the right organ is available for the transplant. "For any contribution made the sender will receive a receipt from the foundation and the donation is tax deductible," he added. Those wishing to make donations to the fund should send it to: LDS HopsitalDeserett Foundation, for Robert L. Montgomery, 8th Ave. and C Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84143. I effectiveness of Robert hiS liver. MONTGOMERY "His only hope for survival is a r liver transplant," Marie Montgomery, Mon-tgomery, his wife said. "We are pursuing pur-suing every possible resource to fund the transplant but need a lot of help. ' The medical community has informed in-formed Montgomery that the transplant and the first year of follow up medical treatment would cost about $140,000, "My insurance will cover only $100,000 and to even be put on the list to await a transplant I must have |