Lawyers for living donors – Where do you turn?

A potential non-directed donor (someone considering donating an organ anonymously to whomever needs it) wrote to the Greatest Gift Foundation with a question that stumped me.  And yet it’s a logical question — I’m surprised I haven’t heard it before. He was thinking that before or during his approach to become a living donor, he [...]

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Happy T-Day, Joe!

Joe,  today I honor your heart, your resiliency, your mind, your patience, your achievements, your humor, and every day — every single, precious day — of your life since our transplant three years ago.  And at the same time I thank the world for giving me the awesome, life-defining honor of being your donor, your sister, and [...]

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Buy a Charley’s sandwich, help fight kidney disease!

My vote for company of the month is Charley’s Grilled Subs, which in January is donating 10 cents from every sandwich sold to the National Kidney Foundation.  The nationwide Ohio-based chain is doing this in honor of Marcus Gilbert, a Charley’s franchisee who donated his kidney to one of his 16-year-old employees, Juan Delgado.  (You [...]

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Thinking of living organ donation to a stranger? Your first steps…

Perhaps it is the firm resolve of the New Year, or some planetary alignment, or just our world’s really good fortune: All around me lately have been people asking questions about how to become an anonymous living organ donor.  Last Friday, in fact, I received emails from two different people who found this blog, telling me they were considering giving [...]

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The curious case of the conditional kidney

Sigh. There is so much hurt in the world — people suffering on organ waiting lists, people suffering from anger and resentment, people who are not at peace with themselves, their world, their gifts. Dr. Richard Batista, irritated by four years of divorce proceedings following his wife’s extramarital affair, is telling her now that he [...]

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