A chance meeting at the local Gift of Life race has brought two families together physically. But emotionally, they were already connected. It’s an incredible story about two boys and […]
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Rafael Perez knows the ups and downs of waiting for a kidney transplant – he has experienced the tumultuous waiting list three times.
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“Tylor’s gift of being a donor is what comforts our pain because we know he lives on.”
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An 8-year-old boy is now able to write, eat and get dressed on his own, thanks to a double-hand transplant performed just a few years ago. The case study, published Tuesday […]
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Kim Kamara of Germantown wasn’t pleased the day her 18-year-old informed her that he had gotten his driver’s license and had checked a box marking his intention to be an […]
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At the age of 69, Domingo Pena underwent a double lung transplant to fight against an incurable disease resulting from his service in the Vietnam War 50 years earlier. Then, […]
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – It has been a tough road for Harrisburg High School senior Saderiah Wallace. She had to endure the disappointment of two kidney transplant cancellations, but things […]
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That date is the anniversary of Pratt’s life-saving surgery in 2013. He received two transplanted lungs from an organ donor who was killed in a car crash and was just […]
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Suffering from severe pain, every day tasks like brushing teeth and combing hair were nearly impossible for Kenneth Williams, but a life-altering tissue transplant changed all of that.
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Ramona had a successful career, a loving husband, Jay, and two sons. She never imagined what would come next for her… waiting on the transplant list for a multi-organ transplant.
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