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Show Marrow Transplant: Expensive For Bob While undergoing the transplants trans-plants - made over a 4)-day period -- Bob is joined by his wile, Ilcenc, who is staying in guest facilities within the Seattle Seat-tle hospital. Meanwhile, their children. Mane, 12, and Julie, 10, are living with grandparents grandpa-rents in Mill'ord and Jeff, 15, is staying with friends in West Bountiful. MR. ROLLINS, 36, was referred re-ferred to the Cancer Research Center in Seattle after the illness ill-ness struck about three years ago. He had been working at Phillips Petroleum Company Refinery, Woods Cross, until the illness made it impossible for him to continue on his job. He underwent extensive treatment at University of Utah Medical Center until being transferred to the Seattle facility. MRS. ROLLINS is an employee em-ployee of Safeway, Bountiful, and is on leave of absence for six months to be with her husband, hus-band, according to L le Lafev-er, Lafev-er, store manager. He said store employees have donated $300 and Safeway Safe-way Store gave an additional $50 to a fund to help pay medical expenses. Donations should be sent to the Bob Rollins Rol-lins Fund, First Interstate Bank, Post Office Box 98, Mil-ford, Mil-ford, Utah, 84751. BOTH ARE natives of Mil-ford Mil-ford and graduated from Mil-ford Mil-ford High School. They have been living in West Bountiful for the past several years. By GARY R. BI.OIK-KTT WEST HOLM II UL - A West Bountiful man is in a Nc.itllc hospital undergoing a rare hone marrow transplant --which --which has run up expenses of more Ih.in $125,000 to dale. AM) DM ORE it 's all over, the total cost is going to be much greater, according to a local spokesperson. l!oh Kollins, of West Bountiful, Boun-tiful, has been undergoing hone marrow transplants, to allect a cure lor A Plastic Ane-mia, Ane-mia, lor the past several months. I he marrow has tome liom the hones ol wo brothers f lark. , of Albany, Ore , and Richard, who lives in Miltord, Utah IK ALL goes well. Bob will be released from the hospital sometime next month. But the long ordeal of recovery will be just beginning. He will be required to remain re-main in isolation for at least four months for additional treatment and isolation. After that, it will be a long, slow recovery re-covery process, according to his physicians. BOB IS being treated in Seattle because the hospital there is one of the few in the United States equipped and with a stall to do this type of operation, it was explained. |