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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!

Here’s a Cubs Fan Who Found a Kidney Donor Holding up a Sign at a Game

February 14, 2022June 30, 2022NBC Chicago

To celebrate National Donor Day, Bridgett Kolls joins ‘Chicago Today’ to discuss the story of how she found an organ donor at a Cubs game—the donor was a White Sox fan.

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Maine musician to get kidney from artist after long search

February 1, 2022June 30, 2022News Center Maine

A long search is over for a Bangor man who desperately needs a new kidney. Dustin Saucier now has something to celebrate: life. He will receive a kidney from artist Laura Dunn next week at Maine Medical Center.

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Organ donor becomes best friends with stranger who received her kidney: ‘most amazing journey’

March 3, 2020March 27, 2025Yahoo Movies

For best friends Breanna Sipple and Erin Francis, their bond began with a life-saving gesture made when they were only strangers.

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Hockey fan gets life-saving kidney transplant after homemade sign at NHL game goes viral

November 21, 2018June 26, 2024Yahoo Movies

A 31-year-old who desperately needed a life-saving organ transplant took her search to the cheering section at a hockey game earlier this year. Now, months later, she’s thriving with her new kidney.

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New Jersey Dad Gets Kidney from Stranger After Wife’s Facebook Plea: ‘I Feel Like a New Person’

August 2, 2018June 26, 2024Yahoo Movies

Bill English, of Bellmawr, New Jersey, has a new lease on life after a stranger saw his wife’s desperate Facebook plea for a kidney donor and stepped up to help the ailing father of two.

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