By Keith Reid
Record Staff Writer
December 25, 2009
STOCKTON – Laura Amador’s family receives a gift every day they see her. Her energy. Her smile. Her clean bill of health.
In late June, Amador, 27, received a kidney transplant to survive the effects of an autoimmune disease that caused her kidneys to fail. Continue Reading
By: The Stockton Record
December 4th, 2009
STOCKTON – An organ donor drive at San Joaquin Delta College has registered 462 potential donors, and the organizers – a brother and sister – were recognized Thursday for their efforts. Paul and Laura Amador know what it’s like to give and to receive. Continue Reading
Joe Goldeen
Record Staff Writer
October 18, 2009
STOCKTON – San Joaquin Delta College students are signing up in record numbers to become organ donors, outdistancing their closest Northern California college rivals by almost six to one in the 2009 Donate Life California Campus Challenge. Continue Reading
The current 2009 National Donation Campus Challenge registration numbers for Northern California.
The Amador siblings inspire college students to register new D.M.V. organ donors. At days end campus students registered a whopping 90 new organ donors!
A Transplant donor chain that has spread across the country was started when Laura Amador received a kidney from a altruistic donor. Her brother, Paul Amador, then donated his kidney.
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The 2009 National Donation Campus Challenge is a campaign to increase donor registration through statewide donor registries.
The Amador sibling’s present a speech on organ donation at the Lodi Rotary Club. Both siblings were apart of a coast to coast kidney donor chain
Northern California’s first kidney donor chain that started just over a week ago with four surgeries saved the life of Stockton’s Laura Amador.
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Siblings Laura and Paul Amador of Stockton were reported doing well early Friday afternoon following their kidney surgeries Thursday at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.