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JANUARY
2019
What’s Inside
• Dr. Dave Schwartz Performs PRP and
Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Procedures
• Paul Osterholm Shares His Experience
with Organ Donation
• Ways to Become a Healthier You
• Taylor Howard Gives Hope with Blankets
HAVE A
ple, patients would be asked to
limit activity and use a walker to
offset their weight. The second
week after the procedure, pa-
HEART
tients are still asked to reduce
activity, but by week three, the
patient is encouraged to start
doing some exercise, but more
walking than weight-bearing
DAY
activities. It takes about four
to six weeks for patients to be
able to resume normal activi-
ty. While rehab is not required,
patients are encouraged to ex-
Saturday, February 9, 2019 Waukon Dental ercise in order to regain ranges
of motion. Patients can have
18 1st Ave. NW, Waukon, IA
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One of Dr. Schwartz’s pa-
PROVIDING DENTAL SERVICES AT tients, who has asked to remain
NO CHARGE!
Dental Associates anonymous to respect their pri-
vacy, is currently undergoing
of Prairie du Chien, P.C. treatment in both of their knees.
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This is an opportunity for kids ages 4-18, who have not recently the patient decided to give the
seen a dentist, to receive free dental work. The following procedures will be stem cell and PRP procedures
available/provided at no charge: Family Dentistry a try, in the hopes of being able
AN UNEXPECTED
ple waiting for a kidney in Wis-
consin, according to the United Thornton Manor Outpatient
DIAGNOSIS
Braatz, 48, had no major
Network for Organ Sharing, or
UNOS.
Therapy Clinic
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life, and so, when she began en sisters. With a blood type O, Thornton Manor Outpatient Therapy Clinic offers Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy services
experiencing symptoms of kid- while Braatz can donate to any- from Rehab Visions TM. Licensed staff will schedule appointments to meet your needs. Medicare and
ney failure, she and doctors one, only those with O blood Medicaid certified. Private Insurance and Workers Compensation are welcomed.
didn’t recognize them as such. type can donate to her. In her
At the doctor’s office December
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Schedule in exercise five also helps to maintain and build emotions. So be sure to trade Year’s resolutions have to be ing with food pantries, soup
days a week. What you write strong muscles and bones. The out some of your time on a painful, punishing and ultimate- kitchens and meal programs
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for is more likely to get done. recommends doing some type local park. Or do lunges, push- manageable changes - that you distribute meals, but to provide
Your workouts don’t have to be of strength training at least two ups and other strength training will actually enjoy - is a better nutrition education in those set-
extra rigorous to be effective. times per week. Activities in- in your backyard for a change game plan for success. Make tings. She continues to work as
Just taking a brisk 30-minute clude using weight machines, of scenery. 2019 the year you finally shift a cooking demonstrator, teach-
walk each day - or at least five free weights at the gym or re- into a healthier lifestyle and ing people how to cook healthy
times a week - is a great way to sistance bands; exercises that Shake up your sedentary start moving toward building a and showing that it can be deli-
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morial Day weekend, as Janet A month later, Paul Oster- sin, said Maggie Osterholm. didn’t have time before he fate working a hand in. While of-
Osterholm scrolled through holm received a call from UW Following the battery of tests, shared the news. ficiating a wedding, Osterholm
Facebook, the post crafted Health Transplant Coordinator the team of doctors smiled as She was completely sur- met Tia Jean, a, photographer,
by Braatz and her family ap- Leza Warnke and spoke on the the Osterholms left. While only prised. Braatz hadn’t gotten her who, when reading Maggie’s
peared. phone for nearly an hour, be- about seven percent of people hopes up, as other people, in- posts about the transplant on
“Honey, what do you think?” fore she asked if he could come who go through the process cluding stranger-but-now-like- Facebook, offered to take sur-
she asked of her husband. down. match, said Janet Osterholm, family Sarah Harbridge, had prise photos of Osterholm and
He read the post and knowing Going through a day of tests, she could tell they saw some- gone through the process but Braatz, featuring green shirts
he was a blood match, due he passed one after another. thing positive in his test results. didn’t end up matching. and balloons, the color for kid-
to donating bone marrow, he The only time he came close to “I think you’re coming back,” “I thought you were just call- ney donation. Jean shared the
messaged Braatz, and then failing was his blood pressure, she whispered. ing to talk,” Braatz said to him. story with a bride-to-be, who,
reached out to UW Health’s as he was told he could drink Soon, UW Health called. while in need of a kidney her-
Living Donor Program. coffee while waiting for his next Braatz and Osterholm had THE HAND OF FATE self, decided to raise money for
Having taught their children test and downed two shots of matched four out of six anti- Outside his house that day, Braatz.
to give back, the Osterholms’ espresso. gens; family members typically looking over the lake as the sun The date of the transplant
children were supportive of his In case he wasn’t a match for match from zero to two anti- set, Osterholm felt compelled also carries significance. Giv-
decision to pursue donation, in- Nicole, he had agreed he would gens. to take a picture of the sky. In it, en the option to choose Oc-
cluding daughter, Maggie, who donate to somebody else to “Rarely do people match six the Osterholm and Braatz fami- tober 10 or October 11 for the
around the same time, was try- move her up the list as part of out of six, and they matched lies see an angel. transplant, Osterholm picked
ing to donate her own kidney to the match donation program. four out of six and they said “The spiritual journey has October 10, so he could be
a man in Chilton, WI. However, In this way, if Braatz matched that’s just a bonus because it’s been remarkable. I feel blessed home to watch his home state,
in the phone interview, she was someone in California and less chance of rejection,” said to be able to do this. We feel Iowa, play college football, and
told she could not donate due Osterholm did as well, a “flip,” Braatz-Markert. (honored) to give Nicole new be one day closer to recovery
to being allergic to Tylenol, as would be done, in which Oster- When Paul Osterholm re- life,” said Osterholm. “My wife for when his son, Paul Jr., and
following the procedure, her holm’s kidney would be sent to ceived the news he was a and I met in La Crosse and she daughter-in-law, Katie, had
body would not be able to me- California, and Braatz’s donor’s match, his wife told him not to said ‘who would’ve thought I their first grandchild.
tabolize ibuprofen. kidney would come to Wiscon- call Braatz until she was home would meet an Iowa farm boy, However, for the Braatz fam-
from work. Not able to contain to be where we are today and ily, the day meant much more
himself, he called her anyway, be here to help Nicole?’” than football. When Braatz was
reaching her on the road. He The match was just the first 21, her father, Harold, passed
Wellness Therapies for a Healthier Life told her to pull over, but she touch of what the families see away and her mom gave her
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meaning as UW Health told her him a personalized cow bell as comparison to the expected When they return to Madi-
that while Osterholm’s surgery a way to convey their gratitude, 50 a day due to her health and son for follow-up appointments,
Recent
would take place at 8 a.m., although it cannot be conveyed the match of the kidney. In a they will pass a wall bearing the
hers would be at 10:10 a.m., enough. year, that will be cut down by names of donors. Both Braatz
the nurse saying it was new
beginnings. On the way home,
“I don’t even know what to
say to you half the time. What
half. Currently, she undergoes
blood tests twice a week, and
and Osterholm hope more peo-
ple will have their names em- update to the
Braatz Googled what the nurse
had meant, finding that it was
do you say to somebody (who
does this),” said Braatz to Os-
all looks positive. While swol-
len and sore, the pain doesn’t
blazoned here to help those
who are in dialysis or will need Osterholm
“a strong angel number.”
“When you look it up, the
terholm.
On the day of the transplant,
compare to the happiness that
comes with her regaining her
to be.
“That’s why you’re always
story appears
very first line is, ‘if you are con-
sistently seeing 10-10, it’s not a
family came from as far as
Iowa to gather in Madison, WI.
taste and her energy. Already,
she is walking a mile.
nice to people, because you
never know,” said Braatz-Mark-
on page 10
coincidence, your guardian an- The doctors planned for Oster- “I felt so good... like what a ert.
gels are bringing you to new be- holm’s surgery to be about four gift,” she said. “I feel like I got “And friend them on Face-
ginnings,” said Mary Braatz. “It hours long, but, due to veins my life back.” book,” added Janet Osterholm.
just seems like from the begin- wrapped around his kidney,
ning there’s been a reason for lasted a little more than sev-
all of this: a reason happened en, he said. However, the ex-
why it happened to her and it’s tra wait was worth it for Braatz
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