A U.S. Army Veteran’s Family is Celebrating Big Events this Month: Our Nation’s Independence & National Aunts and Uncles Day
New Liver = New Life for COTA Kid Emily … Thanks to Aunt Charmaine July 1, 2024 — July will be a month of celebrations for COTA’s Hawkins Family of Ohio. When our nation pauses on July 4th to commemorate our independence and recognize those who protect our freedom, COTA Mom Ariane Hawkins, a U.S.…
A North Carolina Teen Has a New Kidney … and a Second Chance at Life
His Mom’s Paired Kidney Donation Paved the Way June 3, 2024 — For years to come, June will be a month full of celebration and joy for the McGuire family of North Carolina. Knowing their son would need a kidney even before he was born, many prayers were answered a year ago this month when…
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The Best Mother’s Day Gift – A Daughter’s Second Chance at Life
May 1, 2024 — May is a month typically associated with family and fun, especially on the second weekend when many gather to celebrate moms. For the Payne family of Montgomery, Texas, it is also a month to focus on faithfulness. In early May 2016, Mom Sarah was excited for their second daughter to be…
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April is Donate Life Month: New Heart Means New Life for an Indiana Teen
April 1, 2024 — April is celebrated nationwide as Donate Life Month, which was instituted by Donate Life America and its partnering organizations in 2003. It features an entire month of local, regional and national activities to help encourage Americans to register as organ and tissue donors … and to celebrate those who have saved…
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March is National Kidney Month: A Kansas Family is Grateful Their High School Son is Living Life to the Fullest Thanks to His New Kidney and a Second Chance at Life
March 1, 2024 — March is National Kidney Month, which is a month-long, awareness-raising grassroots effort to spread the word across the country about the importance of kidney health. March 9th will be celebrated this year as World Kidney Day, which highlights the importance of preventive interventions to avert the onset and progression of kidney…
January is National Blood Donor Month: A Minnesota Transplant Family is Celebrating Blood Donors and Organ Donors
January 1, 2024 — January is designated as National Volunteer Blood Donor Month by The American Red Cross. During this month, blood donations typically drop off due to holiday breaks from schools, inclement weather and winter illnesses. However, January is a month of great need for blood donations partially due to holiday-postponed surgeries and schedules…
