http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog Factual information for potential organ donors as well as personal accounts about organ transplantation. Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:32:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/wp-content/mbp-favicon/favicon6.ico http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-transplants-at-ucla-medical-center-have-a-domino-effect-685/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-transplants-at-ucla-medical-center-have-a-domino-effect-685/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:11:18 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=685 By Molly Hennessy-Fiske LA Times October 23, 2009 At 8:25 Thursday morning, Dr. Peter Schulam extracted a healthy kidney from a 60-year-old woman, slipped it into a bowl of sterile ice and wheeled it into the operating room next door. The donor, Nancy Seruto, a San Dimas mother, had never met the recipient, a 67-year-old [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-transplants-at-ucla-medical-center-have-a-domino-effect-685/feed/ 2 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/the-journey-of-an-altruistic-kidney-donor-714/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/the-journey-of-an-altruistic-kidney-donor-714/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:23:28 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=714 By Carolyn Weaver New York 16 October 2009 “It was like planning for a long vacation.” That’s how Daryl Julich, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, says he budgeted for the cost of donating one of his kidneys to a stranger: several weeks’ lost income and a no-expense-paid trip to New York City. Of course, few people [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/the-journey-of-an-altruistic-kidney-donor-714/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/news-organ-donation-chain-forged-in-central-valley-stretches-to-14-lives-21/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/news-organ-donation-chain-forged-in-central-valley-stretches-to-14-lives-21/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:05:33 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=21 At San Joaquin Delta College a brother and sister are spearheading a drive to get people to pledge that they will donate their organs for transplants.]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/news-organ-donation-chain-forged-in-central-valley-stretches-to-14-lives-21/feed/ 6 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/blood-bank-delta-college-host-organ-donor-drive-503/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/blood-bank-delta-college-host-organ-donor-drive-503/#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:35:18 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=503 Dance for Donors will be advising students on registering with the California Department of Motor Vehicles to become organ donors.]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/national-donation-campus-challenge/blood-bank-delta-college-host-organ-donor-drive-503/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/altruistic-donor-donates-kidney-at-new-york-hospital-718/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/altruistic-donor-donates-kidney-at-new-york-hospital-718/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:32:44 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=718 An estimated 62,000 people in the United States have severe kidney failure. To lead a normal life, each needs a new kidney, preferably one transplanted from a healthy living donor. Some are lucky enough to have a family member or friend with a compatible blood type who is willing to donate. But a few will [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/altruistic-donor-donates-kidney-at-new-york-hospital-718/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-failure-part-3-a-revolution-trading-donors-710/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-failure-part-3-a-revolution-trading-donors-710/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:12:22 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=710 Surgeons Erik Finger, left, and Rajinder Singh removed a kidney (shown on monitor) from a living donor during an operation at the University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview in Minneapolis. In an adjacent operating room, the organ recipient was prepped and waiting for the kidney. Kidney exchanges use the oldest economic model of all – trade. [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-failure-part-3-a-revolution-trading-donors-710/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-donor-chain-goes-coast-to-coast-1/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-donor-chain-goes-coast-to-coast-1/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:59:35 +0000 dancefordonors http://dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=1 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.]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-donor-chain-goes-coast-to-coast-1/feed/ 2 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/amador-siblings-speech-at-lodi-rotary-club-on-organ-transplant-30/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/amador-siblings-speech-at-lodi-rotary-club-on-organ-transplant-30/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:16:18 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=30 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 By: Lodi News-Sentinel September 02, 2009 Talk about First Person documentary! The program this week is on the subject of organ transplant. Below is some info on Laura Amador [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/amador-siblings-speech-at-lodi-rotary-club-on-organ-transplant-30/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/the-spirit-of-giving-life-151/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/the-spirit-of-giving-life-151/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:17 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=151 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.]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/the-spirit-of-giving-life-151/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/stockton-kidney-patients-doing-fine-after-surgeries-220/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/stockton-kidney-patients-doing-fine-after-surgeries-220/#comments Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:00:32 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=220 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.]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/stockton-kidney-patients-doing-fine-after-surgeries-220/feed/ 0