| His need for dialysis

leads to separation

IF CHUCK Mangnus could, the retired Terrace electrician would wire the space set aside at Mills Memorial Hospital for a kidney dialysis unil,

- He'd do it at no charge and it would be his way of doing something —- any- thing — to spur the project

_ along,

But he can’t, Instead, ~Chuck, 71, is living in Prince George in a rented room, Without his wife and without his friends. ~~ His only focus is the ~ trip he makes three times

"a week to the kidney dia- .

lysis unit in Prince George where his blood is ~ cleansed and his life is saved. The Prince George

‘unit is the closest one to

Terrace

- " “It’s no way to live,” : says Ruth, his wife of 47 _years. “He used to be 172 pounds. He’s down to 145.”

Ruth has remained in Terrace since April when ‘Chuck’s kidney condition was first determined and he was meédevaced to Prince George.

She’s had to stay be-

hind to look after their tural home. _ “This is all that we “have,” says Ruth of their home. “Everything we own is here,”

Chuck spent two months in hospital in Prince George before being discharged and be- coming an out-patient of the dialysis unit there.

Every time he calls home, he asks if Ruth has heard anything about a planned dialysis project here, she says.

It’s been two months since Ruth has seen Chuck. He even spent his birthday, Sept. 3, alone in Prince George.

This has been the long- est period the couple has been away from each other in their 47 years of marri- _ age.

While there is a mon-

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Chuck Mangnus etary cost to Chuck’s need to be in Prince George, the human cost is much great- er, says Ruth.

Eventually, the plan is

_to have Chuck return to

Terrace for home dialysis, but that’s not an option ‘right now, “We need that unit in Terrace,” says Ruth. Chuck isn’t the only

. person in this area who has

had to uproot his life and »move to Prince George for dialysis,

Ida Mohler of Terrace Health Watch, the local group which lobbies for health care improvements here, has regular contact with people in the same position as Chuck and Ruth.

“I can’t emphasize en- ough the urgency of the si- tuation,” she says.

“I come across people all the time and they ask ‘when’,

As the general popula- tion ages, there'll be more and more people like Chuck, indicate statistics prepared by those who plan health care services in the province.

As of right now, Terrace is on the priority list for a dialysis unit.

The space set aside at Mills Memorial is suffi- cient for six dialysis sta- tions.

The plan, is to operate

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Ruth Mangnus

the unit as'a satellite to the main one in Prince

George. A similar satellite:

operation has been in place in Fort St. John for a number of years already. Planning for the unit here was well advanced last year and into the early part of 2001 but it was der- ailed because of the job action this spring and sum- mer by registered nurses.

With that job action:

now over, Joanne Cozac, the Prince George-based co-ordinator for the dialy- sis program in that city, is planning a trip to Terrace soon.

Reviving the plan keys on putting together the casts of converting the ‘empty space at Mills and pricing out the dialysis equipment. Those costs are then passed on ta the

health ministry for exami-

nation and approval,

“HE you ask, is there money, that’s a difficult question,” said Cozac last week, —

“We have every reason

to believe the funds will be released.”

The one encouraging piece of news is that the space at Mills set aside for the unit has never been used except for storage.

That means renovation costs should be lower, said

‘Ozac.

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