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Show V' - r'- Kenny Price (Continued, from page 4) year. He was linebacker and and kind to his brothers and lineman guard. Kenny was sisters and was obedient to his very strong physically- - another parents. He faithfully attended fact that proved to be a saving his church duties and was help- factor in his life in the not too ful to widows. In high school he distant future. Kenny is the was busy in the Drama De- one who taught his brothers to partment, especially with the love football and how to play stage crew, and he loved elec- extremely well. tronics, something that stood Kenny graduated from high him in good stead later on when school in 1987, and in 1988 he great changes came into his filled a mission for the Church life, as you will see. of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y While in high school, Kenny Saints in the Tennessee Nashwas a lifeguard at the Castle ville Mission. During his two-ye- ar Dale pool, played football and was team captain in his junior mission, he had a favorite tape he liked to listen to. There were two songs that meant a mer, also swimming and espelot to him. They were Win the cially mountain climbing with Race and Born a Winner. I had his brothers, and training at the privilege of listening to his UVCC. The weekend before the tape during my work on his accident Kenny went repelling story, and it was like a look at Fireman's Training at into his character. His strength UVCC. Also, a week before the was not only physical, but spiriaccident he went swimming tual and mental as well. He with a from the is all in a winner Hunter two and aspects Plant swam truly of his life as we shall see as his lengths of the pool underwater in one breath. story continues. Work was going well until Now, Kenny returned home from his mission in June of the fateful day Aug. 20, 1990, when Kenny was working con1990. The next few weeks were full of activities before he went struction at the power plant outside of Castle Dale and fell to work at the Hunter Power about 15 feet from a ladder. As Plant. First was a family rehe Motorfell, the ladder flipped causunion at Joe's Valley. sum rides Ken that ing him to fall upside down, by cycle co-wor- Emery County Progress Tuesday, November 14, 1995 5A landing on his head and his they usually did at home. There was one hospital exright shoulder. His back was broken and he was in the hos- perience that Kenny especially pital about two weeks before remembered. It was with his older sister. He said, "She came he really started remembering about over and was leaningdown over the accident, anything and then it was only for a few the bed looking at me. They brief moments at a time. were still wondering how I was His mother stayed right with doing. She was leaning halfhim for the first couple of way over the bed staring at months. She was there conme. I reached up and touched stantly. The rest of the family her on the nose and said 'boo.' would come up on weekends From that time on they pretty and in Kenny's words, "They much knew that I was going to would do stuff." His mother be OK." There is now a five-yeexplained that the "stuff" they span would do meant having get that only Kenny can tell about togethers with the family such because he lived it. And this as pizza parties right m the part of the story will be told as hospital, and other things like nearly as possible as he recorded it for this article a few weeks ago. Only Kenny Price can tell his story the way it should be told, and let me add, it is a story of courage and fulfillment that helped me to see that my own physical impairments need never stop me from accomplishing my goals which, although I am in the golden years of my life, can still be done. There is still hope, and like Kenny, I will succeed. Next week, in this Country Living column, Kenny's inspiring story will be told, from the time he said boo to his sister while he was in the hospital nearly five years ago until his marriage on the day after his birthday and his participation in the Summer Games in Cedar City a few weeks later. y ar 600th heart transplant completed The Utah Cardiac Transplant Program last Monday performed its 600th heart transplant since the program began with then Tony Shepard on March 8, 1985. "Tony now is a healthy living and working in Idaho," according to Dale G. Renlund, M.D., program medical director and professor of cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine. The Utah Cardiac Transplant Program is a joint effort by four local hospitals; LDS, University, Primary Children's and the Veterans Administration Medical Center "We are proud that the survival rates for persons receiving heart transplants in Utah far exceed the national averages," Renlund said. percent of Eighty-seve- n those receiving a heart transplant in Utah survive one year. The national average is 82 persurvival rate cent. Five-yein the Utah program is 75 percent, while the national figure suris 60 percent. The vival rate for heart transplant program is 62 percent, while the national figure drops to 40 percent. "The problem continues to be the lack of donor organs," Renlund said. "We have many more patients than available organs. It is tragic to see someone die awaiting a transplant. 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