A Washington Toddler Receives the Best Gift — A New Heart
This Month She Will Enjoy the Season Thanks to the Selfless Gift She Received December 1, 2023 — December is the month when many families focus on gifts. For a Pacific Northwest transplant family, December is the month to celebrate the ultimate gift — the gift of life. Lester Stoltz and Andrya Dodson are stepping…
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November is National Marrow Awareness Month: A COTA Family is Grateful for Their Son’s Liver and Bone Marrow Transplants
November 1, 2023 — November is an important month to many transplant families across the country because it is National Marrow Donor Awareness Month, which is a time to acknowledge those who have donated bone marrow and stem cells to save other’s lives. November is also National Family Caregivers Month, which was established in 2014 to pay tribute…
October is Liver Awareness Month: A COTA Family is Celebrating Their Daughter’s Now Healthy Liver While Waiting to Find a Perfect Liver for Their Son
https://vimeo.com/869239205 October 2, 2023 — 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, suffer with some form of liver disease. This October, a Florida transplant family is celebrating their…
A North Carolina Transplant Family is Celebrating National Minority Donor Awareness Month
https://vimeo.com/850516489 August 1, 2023 — August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month. This national observance (first a day and then a week) was initiated in 1998 to increase our nation’s consciousness of the need for more organ and tissue donors from multicultural backgrounds. In 2020, this nationwide effort to engage and educate multicultural communities about the need for…
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July is National Cord Blood Awareness : A Florida Family is Celebrating Their Son’s Cord Blood Transplant and Second Chance at Life
July 1, 2023 — July is a month dedicated to summer fun, lots of family time and exploding firework displays. July is also recognized as National Cord Blood Awareness Month. To date, more than 100,000 patients have received cord blood transplants since the first one was performed in 1987. This July, a Florida family will be celebrating…
The Best Father’s Day Gift – A Daughter’s Second Chance at Life
June 1, 2023 — June is a month full of family and fun, especially on the third weekend when families gather to celebrate dads. Father’s Day is a special holiday for the Larson family of Colorado Springs, Colorado. But this year it has even greater significance because this family of four will celebrate Father’s Day…
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