Donor Search Success Stories

Otway Mayfield and Tywa Hughes reconnect after 30 years for a life-saving kidney transplant, while also overcoming cancer battles.

In a last-ditch effort to find a living kidney donor, Wayne Newell put up a billboard off of Interstate 77 last October. Beth Perryman from Mooresville saw that billboard, and she answered his call.

Thomas Ortiz spent years waiting on a kidney. Turns out, he was living with a matched donor – his wife Nikky.

One Colorado couple, Ashley and Jimmy Cleverly, share their recent journey navigating chronic kidney disease and how a living donor transplant has changed their lives.

Donnie Huddleston, a co-owner of PRP’s Ice Cream Corner for more than a decade, was devastated when his kidney failure forced him into early retirement. But his prayers were answered when family connections led to a selfless donor, Serene Conaway.

The day Kathleen Beightol found out her husband had a donor match for a kidney transplant, she was overwhelmed with emotion.

Voorhees University Head Men’s Basketball Coach James Williams knew he needed to take his health more seriously when he passed out during a team practice last year.

Megan Barrowclough donated a kidney to her childhood best friend Regina Bence at Mayo Clinic.

Almost 23 years after Jesus Amando Garcia’s first kidney transplant, Alexandro Munoz, his son in-law, stepped up to provide Garcia’s second transplant, honoring the memory of his own father, who died in 2019 from kidney failure.

Jill Hickey and Bruce Gamble struck up a friendship as Bruce traveled often through Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport and Jill worked in customer relations for Delta Air Lines. When Bruce needed a kidney, Jill stepped up and the two are now “family for life.”