The Best Father’s Day Gift – A Son’s Second Chance at Life
June 2, 2025 — 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 Roy family of Gardner, Massachusetts. But this year it has even greater significance because this family of three will celebrate Father’s Day together,…
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May is Digestive Disease Awareness Month: A New Transplant Has Transformed a Teen’s Life
May 1, 2025 — May is National Digestive Disease Awareness Month. People suffering from digestive diseases experience severe pain, daily discomfort and personal distress. Chronic Pancreatitis is an extremely painful digestive disease. Until recently, people who suffered with chronic pancreatitis had to simply live with the pain. May is also the month set aside to…
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April is Donate Life Month: A North Carolina Teen is Waiting for The Call … and His New Heart
April 1, 2025 — 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…
March is National Kidney Month: A Northwest Teenager Has a New Kidney … Thanks to Her Mom
March 3, 2025 — March is National Kidney Month, which is a 31-day awareness-raising, grassroots effort to spread the word across the country about the importance of kidney health. March 18th will be celebrated this year as World Kidney Day, which highlights the importance of preventive interventions to avert the onset and progression of kidney…
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Thanks to Their Daughter’s Heart Transplant A Washington COTA Family is Celebrating American Heart Month
February 3, 2025 — February is the month to celebrate love and hearts. Since 1964, February has been known as American Heart Month throughout the United States. For the Gergen family of Duvall, Washington, February truly is a month to celebrate selfless gifts from the heart. Their daughter, Arden, is alive and able to celebrate…
January is National Blood Donor Month: A Pennsylvania Transplant Family is Celebrating Blood Donors and Organ Donors
January 6, 2025 — 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 this promise. A Pennsylvania family’s transplant journey, which has significant January milestones, is a living…
