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Show A2 DAILY Donor Continued pom Al Established in 1873 - A Lee Newspaper Customer Service Newsroom 375-510- ing the girl who received her sister's liver. Keisha DeLapp had found Trine on the Internet years ago, and read about her participation as a swimmer in the U.S. Transplant Games. She read about Trine's wonderful health, including her complete independence from drugs that prevent organ rejection. 3 80144-254- 0 Toll free FAX 801373-548- www.heraldextra.com Street address: 1555 N. Freedom Blvd., Provo, UT Send mail to: P.O. Box 717, Provo, UT 846030717 Like other twenrysome-thingKeisha also kept a MySpace page, with a simple quote at the top: "Faith is not simply believing that God can ... It is knowing that He will Earlier this year, Keisha looked for Trine online again, found her on MySpace and s, News Editors Executive Editor Randy Wright Metro Editor AmieRose City Editor Logan Molyneux Sports Editor Darnell Business Editor Life & Style Editor Editorial Page Editor Jim rwrightheraldextra.com aroseheraldextra.com 0 344 2560 Dickson lmotyrauxtoaldextra.corn 5 ddicksonheraldextra.com Grace Leong 0 ElyssaAndrus 3 gleongheraldextra.com eandrusheraldextra.com sent her a greeting: "Hi. I'm Keisha DeLapp, Amanda De Lapp's sister. Me and my family would love to have contact with you if you would like to. Let me know." This month, the U.S. Transplant Games will be held for the first time in Pittsburgh, one of the pioneering centers for transplants in the country, and 25 years after the operation that forever connected the Engebretsen and DeLapp families. 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All mm Monday, July 7, 2008 tucky hoping they could pass it along to the family. The note never made it to them. Meanwhile, she immersed herself in transplant-relateendeavors. "I very much feel that it's important and also I like to give back. I dont feel like I'm under an obligation. I want to give back," Trine said She first attended the U.S. Transplant Games in 1992, and has attended most of the games since then. She has participated in swimming, running and even signed up for the shot put this year. MICHAEL DANNAssociated Press She met her fiance, Ryan Alisha DeLapp stands next to a picture of Trine Engebretsen Labbe, in an online forum about organ transplants. He far left and a picture of her late daughter, Amanda center moved from New England to at her home in Mayfield, Ky., on June 1 6. Miami to be with her, and received his own liver transplant "To me, at that time, it had this year. which earlier to government, agreed Trine has been off immunoto be God helping us to decide," pay for Trine's surgery. He Alisha DeLapp remembers. "I was Norway's youngest passuppressant medications for 11 can look back at that now and senger ship captain, and was years, something that's belost at sea in a hurricane when coming more common among know it was the hardest decision I ever had to make." Trine was 13. transplant recipients. She is Alisha and her husband When Trine arrived at Chiapplying for medical school, in ldren's Hospital of Pittsburgh returned home. On TV, they hopes of studying something and works transplant-related- , saw on the news that a little for the transplant, doctors girl named Trine had received estimated she had less than 24 for the Life Alliance Organ Rea liver transplant. Alisha rehours to live. covery Agency in Florida. membered the little girl; she She was one of several chilOn a Friday night at her ofhad seen Trine and her mom, dren who had transplants at the fice, around 6 p.m., her BlackMary Ann Lunde, on the Phil Pittsburgh hospital in 1983 and berry went off. It was a friend Donahue show appealing for 1984, remembers pioneering request from her MySpace help. They had also made other transplant surgeon Dr. Thomas page. Keinational TV appearances. It was from Starzl, who performed her The De Lapps knew immedisha DeLapp. operatioa The patients were "I almost fell off my chair," ately that their daughter's liver known as "Reagan children," because had saved Trine's life. (They Reagan Trine says. Alisha DeLapp, now 48, had later learned that Amanda's had been using his Saturday radio addresses to drum up public gone on to have Keisha and kidneys were donated to a man in his 20s.) interest in transplantation. a son before she and her hus"At the beginning of the band divorced. She followed Transplants were rare at the time, and in a matter of 1980s, the only place in the U.S. Trine's progress through onhours the local news channels that was doing these was here line stories from the various U.S. Transplant Games she were calling the DeLapps for in Pittsburgh," Starzl said. comment. They agreed to an Starzl remembers Trine and competed in over the years. interview with a local TV staover the years says he has met She kept the picture of Trine as a child in her Christmas dress several donor families. tion, which was broadcast on "I was profoundly and still the "Today" show. eerily, it was the same dress The DeLapps' were interam profoundly grateful to Amanda had worn in a Christviewed along with Trine's mas snapshot and hoped one them, particularly in those it comwasn't because family. They didnt speak didays day to be able to update it with a more recent photo. rectly to each other, but it was mon to donate organs. It "I know it's not my daughthe closest the families would required a lot of social concome to it for years. science," Starzl said. ter, but it's just as special Trine Engebretsen, now 26, knowing that my daughter doesn't remember much about saved her life," Alisha DeLapp her lifesaving liver transplant Over the years, Trine's fam- said. "I'm proud of her, with the things that she's chosen to when she was 2 12 years old. ily tried to contact the DeLapp do with her life. It's so impresShe had been born with a family. She knew the family lived in Kentucky, but says let- sive to me." genetic disorder called alpha--1 The two families have been ters her mother sent to an adantitrypsin deficiency, which since resulted in her body not prodress for Amanda's grandparcommunicating via ents were returned, unopened. Keisha and Trine made conducing enough of a key entact earlier this year. They've Several years ago, Trine zyme in the liver. 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