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…
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…
