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Shortly after he received an artificial heart in 1984, William Schroeder was euphoric. "I feel like I've got ten years left right now," he exulted. But that was not to be. Last week at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, the former Government quality-control inspector, who was 54, suffered a massive stroke. Tuesday morning he was discovered unconscious with labored breathing; 30 hours later his breathing had stopped for good. With Schroeder's family gathered round, doctors pronounced him dead, but there remained a last grim task: to turn off the pneumatically driven device that had kept him alive...
...Schroeder's death marked the end of a valiant struggle for life, but it renewed debate about whether there should be a moratorium on permanent implants of the Jarvik-7 heart. Though Schroeder lived a record 620 days -- almost a third longer than Artificial Heart Recipient Murray Haydon, who died in June -- it was a seesaw survival that mixed moments of triumph with stretches of pain and anguish for both him and his family. "It's incredible how many times he had medical complications that would have finished a normal person," says DeVries...
Within days of the implant, Schroeder was up, cracking jokes and drinking beer. But in less than three weeks, he suffered multiple strokes, a complication that has plagued three of the five permanent Jarvik-7 heart recipients. The seizures left him partly paralyzed, with impaired speech and memory. He recovered enough to move across the street from the hospital into a specially equipped apartment, where he lived with his wife and was attended by nurses and technicians. That idyll lasted barely a month before a second stroke. Again he fought back and eventually he was able to make a trip...
...last November Schroeder suffered another stroke that left him bedridden, semiconscious and unable to speak. By Christmas his condition had so deteriorated that his family and doctors decided not to connect him to a respirator should his lungs fail. Schroeder lingered in a twilight state for seven months, until last week. Family members, summoned to his bedside, initially balked at the doctors' request for a CAT scan but finally agreed. The test confirmed that a massive stroke had destroyed most of Schroeder's brain, and last rites were given...
...Peanuts aficionados, but may evoke smiles from a less sophisticated audience. Especially well-done is a scene which requires most of the cast to write essays on Peter Rabbit. The essays are sung aloud in well-blended and well-performed sketch. Lucy approaches the assignment with characteristic single-mindedness. Schroeder waxes poetic. And Linus examines the psychological motivating factors implicit in the story...