Our Story
With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, a partnership with the Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) will assist with a lifetime of transplant-related expenses. Please consider making a tax deductible donation to “COTA in honor of Dash” Hi, I’m Dash, in July 2020 I received a kidney transplant less than two months before my second birthday. A paired exchange was planned where my Dad donated a kidney to an...
Continue Reading »Dash Winegar
Herriman, UT
Transplant Type: Kidney
Transplant Status: Transplanted
Goal: $55,000.00
Raised: $11,259 of $55,000 goal
Raised by 93 contributors
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Bumps in the transplant road
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(This is being written from my mom, Ashli's, point of view)I knew transplant wouldn't be the cure all to our problems. I am a bone marrow transplant nurse.... Continue Reading »
Dash
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First Baby Picture!
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My parents had to do IVF after a miscarriage, followed by an ectopic pregnancy resulting in a ruptured fallopian tube, causing my mom to need emergency surgery. This... Continue Reading »
Anatomy scan to birth
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My parents learned at my twenty week ultrasound - the one they thought finding out the sex of the baby was the biggest news they’d get - that... Continue Reading »
My NICU stay
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When I got to the NICU the surgeon was assessing my intestines and was placing them in a silo - a tube that holds them above my body... Continue Reading »
Therapies post NICU
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After coming home from the NICU - my therapies continued. Speech therapy (the feeding lady - as my dad called her), occupational therapy(the toy lady), early intervention (the... Continue Reading »
Small Bowel Obstruction
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On November 1st, 2018, I started throwing up. My parents didn’t know what was wrong. My emesis slowly became darker and greener throughout the night. My parents drove... Continue Reading »
G tube Dependent
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We were told by our renal dietitian that it was unlikely I would be able to meet my fluid goal orally, and that it’d be easier to get... Continue Reading »
Nephrology appointments: Pre-Transplant
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Up until my kidney transplant, I’ve had twice monthly or monthly nephrology appointments since I was born. I have gotten my labs drawn every two weeks, sometimes more... Continue Reading »