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Donor Search Success Stories

Looking for inspiration or motivation in your donor search? Read these success stories. They did it, and you can too!

Pizzeria helps save customer’s life after learning he needs a kidney donor

October 16, 2024October 21, 2024unilad.com

When Theo Alano suffered from kidney failure last year, Brooklyn-based pizza shop owner Mark Iacono shared his story on social media to his 245,000 Instagram followers.

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‘He needs help’: this retired Mass. state trooper is in dire need of a kidney

October 16, 2024October 30, 2024NBC 10 - Boston

A retired Massachusetts state trooper has spent his life helping others — but now, he’s in need of help as he searches an organ donor following a kidney failure diagnosis.

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Colorado golfer finds new success on U.S. Adaptive Golf Tour after kidney transplant

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024ABC 7 - Denver

Eric Weichselbaumer isn’t looking for sympathy. He’s looking to inspire people to consider kidney donation.

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Connecticut Families: West Haven kidney recipient comes full circle with job at dialysis center

October 14, 2024October 21, 2024ABC 8 - New Haven

There were days when Yannick Napier didn’t know what the future would hold. Then, in 2022, after a nine-year wait, Napier got a transplant. “It was a beautiful moment,” he told us two years ago.

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Springdale teacher returns to fourth grade students after receiving a kidney transplant

October 11, 2024October 21, 2024ABC 5 - Fayetteville

Springdale teacher receives a kidney transplant from a fellow teacher, who is also her little sister.

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Clark County toddler battling disease gets new kidney

October 4, 2024October 21, 2024Springfield News-Sun

John Cosby, the Clark County boy who needed a new kidney, had a successful transplant from family friend Megan Neer, according to John’s mother, Jennifer Cosby.

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Baltimore 4-year-old’s social media campaign leads to perfect kidney donor match

October 1, 2024October 21, 2024CBS News

A 4-year-old from Baltimore successfully found a matching kidney transplant donor after raising awareness via social media and the “Living Donor Project”. 

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Provo woman gives kidney to stranger she met hiking: pair reunite with Intermountain Health transplant team to offer thanks

September 23, 2024October 21, 2024Intermountain Health News

A chance meeting on “Y Mountain” in Provo, Utah, led to a life-saving kidney transplant for a local pastor whose health was deteriorating and was desperately waiting for an organ donor. 

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Toddler receives life-saving kidney transplant in Westchester County

September 20, 2024September 23, 2024ABC 7 - New York

It was a heart-warming reunion Friday for a toddler, her mother and family members who returned to the Westchester County hospital where the little girl received a rare and life-saving kidney transplant.

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How kidney donation helped Mohegan Lake toddler get her ‘sassy’ back

September 20, 2024September 23, 2024lohud.com

Hadley Frusciante, a curious 21-month-old, sat in her stroller, more interested in her egg-shaped yellow maraca than the sometimes emotional adults who stood at a podium in the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital lobby lauding the kidney transplant that saved her. 

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