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Double Blessings: Charlie’s Lung Transplant Story
After eight years and one long-awaited wedding to his best friend, Charlie Welborn will celebrate Valentine’s Day feeling like an extremely lucky man.
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Becoming a Living Kidney Donor: 6 Things to Know About the Process
Most of us are born with two kidneys. In 2023, more than 6,900 kidney transplants were made possible by living donors – people who chose to offer one of their…
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Could You Save a Life With a Living Organ Donation?
At this moment, more than 100,000 people are on a waiting list for an organ transplant in the United States, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing…
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Putting Practice into Action
For 18 years, Sandra “Sandy” Demasters-Reynolds, M.S.N, R.N., CCTC, has served as the living donor program manager at the UF Health Shands Transplant Center.…
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Facts and Benefits of Organ Donation
Today, there are over 110,000 people nationwide on the organ transplant waiting list hoping for a life-extending donation.
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The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Valentine’s Day is a time for loving, sharing and caring. We know what this means in the romantic sense, but what if there were a more meaningful way to…
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Living With a Great Hope
Dawn Strickland describes her four children as any doting parent would. Jonah, the oldest, is 16 and a wonderful helper. Joel, 14, is the sweetest boy.…
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A Tough Ride
For cystic fibrosis patient and lifelong cyclist Peter Kavanagh, it’s all about adaptability. That’s why a month after receiving a lung transplant at UF Health…
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Something remarkable: A teen celebrates Thanksgiving with his new lungs
At any other time, Matias Cozzi, might have enjoyed Thanksgiving like any 17-year-old. Perhaps he’d overindulge in turkey and pie during an uneventful holiday…
