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SPRING VALLEY — On the Friday earlier than Mom’s Day, Spring Valley resident David Thouin heard a knock on the door. 

It was Julie Mlinar and her husband, Mark. Mlinar mentioned she had some information to share. She had been authorized to donate a kidney. Thouin and his spouse, Carol, had been in tears. 

“It’s nonetheless so memorable to me,” Thouin mentioned. 



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Dave Thouin wants a kidney. A few of you would possibly already concentrate on this, as a result of the 62-year-old Spring Valley resident hasn’t been shy about letting folks know.

Thouin had made no secret of his want. Together with his kidneys shutting down and simply months from beginning dialysis, the retired nurse had launched an all-out blitz, blanketing the world with newspaper advertisements, personalised playing cards and posters about his want for a kidney donor. The Submit-Bulletin did a narrative about his extraordinary marketing campaign. 

Mlinar had seen the advert. She had additionally seen that Thouin was O optimistic. She was O optimistic. Mlinar clipped it out and slipped it with another papers. She figured any person else would step ahead.

However then one thing unusual occurred. Or lots of unusual issues occurred. Wherever she went, Mlinar would hear or see messages about kidney donation. Throughout a church convention at some point, the speaker requested viewers members to recall the great issues they’d achieved of their lives. Perhaps, it was a kidney donation?

“I am like, ‘What?’ I saved having these options,” Mlinar mentioned. “So, lastly, I might had sufficient. I made a decision to go on the Mayo web site and analysis it.”

On June 11, a number of weeks later, Thouin and Mlinar underwent surgical procedure at Mayo Clinic. Mlinar was out of the hospital two days later. Throughout a latest four-month check-up, Thouin and his new kidney received a clear invoice of well being.

However in contrast to Thouin, who was keen to shout his want for a kidney from the best mountaintops, Mlinar wasn’t all that all in favour of speaking about her life-giving donation. She did not need the eye. She was ready to maneuver on along with her life.

However secrets and techniques do not maintain in a small neighborhood like Spring Valley. She may inform phrase of her donation had gotten out from the humorous appears to be like folks gave her. She may additionally inform from the curiosity and questions it generated from these courageous sufficient to ask. A cousin, when he discovered of it, mentioned he was all in favour of donating, too.



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Julie Mlinar, of Spring Valley, donated a kidney to Dave Thouin, additionally of Spring Valley, after she examine his scenario in a newspaper. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)


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Mlinar started to rethink her perspective, that talking up would possibly encourage extra folks to donate and save lives. 

“Perhaps I am in error right here,” Mlinar recalled pondering. “I must let folks know that is it not one thing that they are ever going to die from. It isn’t one thing that could be a horrible factor. And you can actually assist any person.” 

Though the vast majority of kidney transplants carried out nationally in 2018 originated from deceased donors, the development is reversed at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Of the 261 transplants achieved on the clinic in 2018, 76 p.c got here from residing donors, in line with Mayo Clinic spokeswoman Heather Carlson. 

That compares to the 30 p.c from residing donors nationally, in line with the United Community for Organ Sharing. 

Dr. Patrick Dean, a Mayo transplant surgeon, mentioned a part of the distinction is regional. Individuals within the Midwest are “very a lot in favor of organ donation.” One other issue is the emphasis that Mayo locations on residing donation. The clinic far prefers it. 

A residing donor in lots of circumstances permits the affected person to keep away from dialysis, Dean mentioned. That is an excellent factor for a lot of causes, however most significantly it improves the long-term outlook of the affected person. The survival of an individual on dialysis for greater than a few years previous to a transplant merely “is not pretty much as good,” Dean mentioned.

A residing donor kidney additionally lasts longer on common than one from a deceased donor — 14 years in comparison with 9 and half years.



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Dave Thouin, of Spring Valley, obtained a kidney earlier this yr after promoting his want for a donor with newspaper advertisements, writing letters to editors and placing an indication on his truck. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com)


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Dean mentioned the most important query he will get from folks about kidney donation is whether or not it entails a heightened danger of kidney failure down the highway for the donor. Statistically talking, there is no such thing as a elevated danger, Dean mentioned. Donors aren’t any extra prone to growing renal failure than the final inhabitants. 

However Dean notes that the deck is stacked in favor of the donor inhabitants, as a result of they’re fairly wholesome to start with and have a tendency to stay longer than the final inhabitants. 

Of the 95,000 folks ready for kidney donation final yr, 6,000 folks died whereas ready.

It wasn’t Mlinar’s first intuition to speak publicly about her donation. However as soon as she realized how curious folks had been and the way her instance would possibly immediate others to think about donating, she overcame her reluctance.

“I actually have not had any surgical procedures earlier than. So I wasn’t certain what to anticipate. However Mayo was actually good,” Mlinar mentioned. “They talked you thru all the things. They made you very snug. It was an excellent expertise.”

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