Ellasliver.com–the best Web site I’d love to see eradicated

Jeffrey over at Transplant Alliance called the online community’s attention to a beautiful Web site called ellasliver.com.  Ella Watson is a 25-year-old artist who somehow, remarkably, managed to survive biliary artesia as an infant and live relatively complication-free until she was 24.  She now needs a liver transplant, and her family and friends are considering [...]

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Another domino transplant chain first: 12 patients, 3 states

Score another achievement for kidney paired donation (or daisy chain transplants, or domino transplants, as they are sometimes called). Johns Hopkins in Baltimore joined Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis and Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City for a 12-patient, six-transplant cross-country kidney chain.
An anonymous altruistic living donor began the chain, and a paitent on [...]

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This just in: Natalie Cole may receive kidney from son

People Magazine is reporting that singer Natalie Cole, who is on dialysis for Hepatitis C, may have found a kidney donor in her son, Robert. Here’s a link to the article.

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Meet Cristy

Some living donors become bloggers, like me, and some bloggers become living donors, like Conspicuous Chick, a great writer, rocker girl, and soon to be living kidney donor who’s blogging at http://sirencristy.blogspot.com/.  She’s been talking to the world there since 2002, but now she’s interspersing fun variety content with great posts about her life pre-transplant.  [...]

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Diary of a donor, Diary of a recipient

Not sure which I think is cooler:  That living kidney donor Tammy Steele and her kidney recipient, friend Carolyne Bryant, both kept diaries to document their experiences and were willing to open those diaries up to the public; or that the Tacoma News Tribune was willing to excerpt those diaries in the pages of their [...]

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Meet Michael P, Living Kidney Donor

It’s a little hard to take a blogger seriously when he’s staring at you from every post with sticks of celery coming out his nose.  And yet, Michael Podolny has some great entries on his recent living kidney donation that most definitely deserve to be taken seriously! As far as I can see, he started [...]

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Meet you at the Cafe

One of the most promising new online resourcses I’ve seen for the transplant community is the Transplant Cafe, launched by the endlessly energetic and charming Nelson Freytes, who received a liver transplant in 1998.  Built on Ning.com, it’s like a self-contained version of Facebook — you can sign up for free and have your own [...]

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