Født 5 Jun 1962 Grand Prairie, Alberta
Død 12 Jun 1962 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
In 2010, John Carl's mother wrote: 'John Carl was born on June 5th and we took him to Edmonton on the 8th and Art baptized him that night before he had the blood exchange. If I remember rignt they did 2 exchanges in a effort to bring his bilirubin down but it was too late. A blood exchange is done for a blood incompatability but since Art and I were both O pos there was no suspicion of a Rh incompatability. The doctor was hardly to be blamed. Normally when they test for the Rh factor they test for The capital D in the Rh. There are three parts to the Rh factor cDe. For most people the c and e never enter the picture, and the lab in Grande Prairie had no capacity to test for the c and e part of the Rh. It turned out that we had an anti little 'c' reaction. And this caused John Carl's blood to break down. Ours was a 1 in10,000 problem. In fact one of the doctors in the Royal Alexandra was so interested in my blood that he took a good bit of it to study. I never was aware that I made a momentous contibution to science but I found that my breastmilk didn't come in very well and the obtetrician sent Mary home on a bottle and formula.'
