June: Mark Stephens. Featured in 2023 Calendar.
I’ve thought about donating for years. 2020, though, was a tough year for hundreds of millions of people. My family and I were fortunate. We needed to make adjustments, but we mostly were able to keep living and enjoying life. News and conversations showed me we were lucky. We were not immune to the problems, […]
August: Kelly Williams, Kaleb and Kyle Parker, Kidney Donor and Recipients. 12 and 11 years post-transplant. Featured in 2011 Calendar.
As a living kidney donor, organ donation has positively impacted my life! I feel pride in my decision to donate to Kaleb and am so blessed that our transplant was successful. When my friend Temple told me that her child needed a transplant I said “yes” and if asked again my answer would be the […]
May: Hillary and Bea Weidner, Living Liver Donor and Recipient. 6-years post-transplant. Featured in 2017 Calendar.
My life would be vastly different without donation. Our oldest daughter, Beatrice, was born with a rare liver disease and at six months old she received her lifesaving transplant. I was lucky enough to be her donor and I can’t imagine life without her. Since our last photo shoot, our family has expanded! We always […]
Amy Miller and Henry Rogers – Living Kidney Donor and Kidney Recipient
“To me, that means the Gift of Life that Amy has given to Henry. I gave him life once, and she’s given him life as a gift later.” – Elizabeth Rogers Our son, Henry, was born in end stage renal failure and began peritoneal dialysis at 1-month-old. We did peritoneal dialysis every night for two […]
Angela Easton, Living Kidney Donor
An open letter to the man living with my kidney- I knew right away, the day I saw the Facebook post, that I could be a kidney donor-your kidney donor. It would be a while before I convinced my family that my decision was rational though. Who gives their kidney to a stranger? I moved […]
Pride Month: Altruistic Donor, Olivia Zick
We are proud to be a part of the Cincinnati Pride Festival this Saturday. Today we share Olivia’s story: “My connection to donation started in May of 2012 when my father James passed away. He was able to donate tissue, corneas and bone to help many people enhance their lives. Then in September of 2013, […]
The First HIV Positive Kidney Donation Done at Johns Hopkins
In March of 2019, the elite surgical team at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland performed the world’s first kidney transplant from a living HIV positive donor. Built on the knowledge and skills acquired by surgical teams in South Africa who pioneered HIV positive transplants, this surgery marks a major landmark for organ donation. Dr. […]
Ann Delehanty-Koenig, Cornea Transplant Recipient & Living Kidney Donor
My connection to donation is two sided, as a recipient and a donor. My first experience was toward the end of college I was diagnosed with keratoconus. I finished college and one day while playing tennis I noticed that I was experiencing even more difficulties following the ball. My keratoconus had progressed and I would […]
Hillary & Beatrice Weidner, Living Liver Donor & Liver Recipient
In March of 2015, our lives changed forever. Our first baby, Beatrice Kelly Weidner, was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia, a rare liver disease at just 2-months-old. We quickly found out that the only cure for her was going to be a liver transplant. A liver transplant for our baby? Nothing could have ever prepared us […]
