November is Diabetes Awareness Month & National Family Caregivers Month: A COTA Family is Grateful for a Cutting-Edge Transplant
November 1, 2024 — November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and the Noud family of Illinois is celebrating the four-year anniversary of their son’s cutting-edge transplant that required extensive caregiving by his parents to get him to where he is today. The family was told that while this somewhat new transplant would likely eliminate much of…
October is Liver Awareness Month: A COTA Family is Celebrating Their Daughter’s Now Healthy Liver and Their Donor Family’s Selfless Decision
October 1, 2024 — October is Liver Awareness Month, which is the month touted by the American Liver Foundation to raise public awareness of the importance of liver health. More than 30 million Americans, or one in 10 Americans, suffer with some form of liver disease. This October, a Midwest transplant family is celebrating their…
A Colorado Transplant Family’s Journey Started in 2006
Their Son Is Off to College Thanks to Two Liver Transplants in 2015 and 2022 September 3, 2024 — The Children’s Organ Transplant Association is a national nonprofit with a powerful tagline … The Trusted Leader Supporting Families … For a Lifetime. Founded in 1986, COTA will soon be celebrating four decades of standing by…
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A Washington Transplant Family is Celebrating National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month
Please Register to be a Life-Saving Organ or Tissue Donor August 1, 2024 — August is National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month. This national observance was initiated in 1998 as a single day to increase our nation’s consciousness of the need for more organ and tissue donors from multicultural backgrounds. In 2020, this nationwide effort to…
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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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