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/a-cycle-of-giving-1010/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/a-cycle-of-giving-1010/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:20:59 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=1010 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. Her [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/a-cycle-of-giving-1010/feed/ 3 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/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-failure-part-2-balancing-life-and-death-706/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-failure-part-2-balancing-life-and-death-706/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:10:16 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=706 Melissa Larson watched the rain outside a Harley-Davidson dealership in Elk River, where a silent auction and motorcycle ride were held in June to raise donations to pay her medical bills. But few people showed up on the cold, rainy day. Larson, who suffers from end-stage kidney disease, has daily dialysis as she, her friends [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/kidney-failure-part-2-balancing-life-and-death-706/feed/ 0 http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/part-1-survival-of-the-savviest-695/ http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/part-1-survival-of-the-savviest-695/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:43:55 +0000 dancefordonors http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/?p=695 Melissa Larson rests in a chair in a clinic near Big Lake where she underwent dialysis for kidney failure several times a week before she received the equipment that has allowed her to undergo the process at home. Larson has two young children and is a Harley Davidson motorcycle enthusiast. Melissa received a kidney about [...]]]> http://www.dancefordonors.org/blog/2009/kidney/part-1-survival-of-the-savviest-695/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