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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!

‘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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“It really takes a village”: ECU Health transplant team and donor save three-year-old’s life with a kidney transplant

September 17, 2024September 20, 2024ECU Health

Insley Santifort was born in November of 2020 with no kidney function; from the beginning of her life, she had to be on dialysis. After an unsuccessful initial kidney transplant at another institution, Insley transferred to ECU Health to receive a second kidney transplant in 2024.

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