Megan, Liver Recipient
Megan understands firsthand the importance of organ donor registries and the “gift of Life.” ...
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Gift of Life Stories
Dana Bledsoe – Mom of double-lung recipient, Jessica
Lung Recipient
My daughter Jessica was diagnosed at the age of 2 months with Cystic Fibrosis. A fatal genetic...
Becky Lenz – Double Lung Recipient & Sister of Liver Recipient
My transplant experience really begins nearly 18 years ago when my oldest sister, Diane, underwent...
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Bobbiejo Winfrey – Multi-organ Transplant Recipient
The illness I had made it so easy to let myself become isolated because it affected my eating,...
Jessica Smither – Donor Wife
Being an organ donor had been discussed in our house in passing, but nothing formal had been done...
Tim Ridley – Living Kidney Donor
Below is my story that I posted to a website back in the late nineties. That was over 15 years ago....
Jon Patrick Lyons – Donor
Our 36-year-old son Jon Patrick Lyons suffered massive brain trauma on Wednesday, April 14, 2010...
Norman Sanders – Liver Recipient
I didn’t know what was wrong with me when I started bleeding internally in 1988 while working in...
Minnalies Proeschel – Cornea Donor
My name is Ruth Proeschel and I am a deputy clerk at the Pendleton Co. Justice Center. Minnalies...
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Bryan Tucker – Waiting for Kidney Transplant
My story is still going because I am still on the list waiting for a donation. I know that the...
Eric Gray – Living Kidney Donor to His Father
My son Eric Gray says he is not a hero, but to me he is. He didn't run into a burning building or...
Samantha Sloan – Heart Transplant Recipient
My name is Samantha Sloan and this is my story. In 1989 my son was diagnosed with Hypertrophic...
Paige West – Double Lung Recipient
After years of waiting, one McCreary County family finally had an answer to their prayers with an...
John Mays – Lung Recipient
My name is John Mays, a 63 year old son, brother, husband, father, and grandfather, that can...
Donna Vance – Liver Recipient
Donna Vance, cousin of Whitley Co. Circuit Court Clerk Gary Barton, received her liver transplant...
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Linda Cox – Lung Recipient
"I had a rare lung disease called P.P.H. I was on the waiting list for 21 months. I had my...
Jessica Owen – Liver & Kidney Recipient
My daughter, Jessica, was born with Biliary Atresia, a liver disease that affects 1 in 20,000...
DeWayne Rapier – Donor
DeWayne Rapier was a Hancock County Graduate. He had two children, Josh & Leah. He died at...
Herb Devary – Liver Recipient
I was diagnosed with Chronic liver failure in 1998. I was back and forth to the doctors and...
Eleanor – Heart Recipient & Kosair Kid
(PHOTO BY BETHANY BILLICK) Eleanor Westenhofer, happy and healthy after a life-saving heart...
Anna – Waiting on Liver Transplant
**UPDATE** Anna received her transplant in May 2012. She is DOING...
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Carissa Foushee – Organ Donor
Carissa was the second of our 4 beautiful...
Sue Doughty – Liver Recipient
I was diagnosed with liver disease in 1984 after a routine physical. My internist referred me to a...
Mike Saylor, Kidney Recipient and Tim Clark, Living Kidney Donor
My husband, Mike Saylor and Tim Clark first meet at Trinity High School freshman football practice...