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Mission
51 - Cleve / Parafield / Cleve Colin Kammermann of Cleve, will
get some relief from the effects of a disabling illness, thanks
to some very special Angel Flight pilots. Colin has suffered from
kidney disease since 1988, receiving his first kidney transplant
in 1989, which kept working for 12 years. Following this Colin has
been on both hospital and home renal dialysis until his second kidney
transplant in November last year. Unfortunately, his ‘new’
kidney is not working effectively and he needs to travel to the
Royal Adelaide Hospital every week so that his condition can be
monitored. Already weakened by the disease and the stress of the
failing kidney, the overnight journeys by bus to and from Adelaide
are taking their toll. After two nights without sleep, Colin returns home from Adelaide physically drained through lack of sleep combined with the obvious trauma caused by his present situation. But relief is on its way as pilots from Gawler East and Port Augusta join together to get Colin to and from Adelaide Hospital in just a few hours and on the same day. "I’m really grateful to Angel Flight for helping me in this way," Colin said. "When I saw the Angel Flight on TV I thought it was only for children and didn’t realize they could help me, so when I heard that it is for people like me I could hardly believe it." This
story appearing Eyre Peninsula Tribune.
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