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Jermayne Harris has been waiting for a heart transplant for four years now. "I think when you're first on the (transplant) list, you're always checking your phone," he says. "It's always in the back …

Losing your child is a tragedy no parent should have to endure, but because Katie said yes to organ donation, her mother Gwen can find solace in the fact that Katie’s selflessness saved lives. Becaus…

Mary Collins was not thinking about her own mortality at 19 years old. But, she was left no choice but to confront it when her doctors told her she had severe kidney damage. She was told that she wou…

Oftentimes in stories of transplant recipients, we focus on the person in need of a transplant that we don’t recognize the struggle and hardship it puts on their caregiver.

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For Bill Padden, being the recipient of a transplant is a bittersweet experience. You are confronted with the truth that in order for your life to go on, someone else’s life must come to an end. 

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Jenae McNichols touched the lives of everyone she met. Her radiance shined a light in even the darkest of corners. 

On May 27th, 2013, an unimaginable tragedy struck the McNichols family. Jenae was…

Rob didn’t know this at the time, but his decision to join Jack’s Pack was a part of a larger story that would eventually have him a part of a process that saved lives. In some ways, his selfless act…

Jack Joseph Kubu was born just two days before Thanksgiving in 2014, weighing 6 pounds, 14 ounces, 20 and a half inches long. Seven months later, his legacy became much bigger.

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We all make choices every day: what to eat, what to wear, etc. Some researchers even estimate that we make 35,000 conscious choices each day. For one young man, one of those 35,000 choices has foreve…

Meet 12-year-old Tyler Parker. He likes Legos, the Lifeline of Ohio mascot Honey Bee and being a big brother two his two sisters. One thing he didn’t like: waiting for his desperately needed liver tr…

For one couple, they had a day that had a permanent impact. But, six months later, they experienced 25 hours that brought a new arrival, painful loss and a new beginning. 

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