Donor Search Success Stories

Owner Ken Ramsey has texted an update on his June 20 surgery in which he received a donated kidney from family friend Tom Pope, declaring his surgery not only a `huge success,’ but a record-breaking one.

A Tri-State woman’s life was saved Tuesday thanks to a person her family met more than 20 years ago. Katie Mulroney was the recipient of Ashley McKenzie’s kidney. The kidney transplant, which was a success, was performed at Christ Hospital.

Joia Dooley watched a report by KSHB 41 in January of 2022 and changed two lives: hers and the life of her kidney recipient.

For the first time in 18 months, Brad Benjamin has his life back. Jill Powers donated one of her kidneys to Benjamin, who had been on dialysis for 18 months after doctors discovered he had been living with Berger disease most of his life.

As he approached end-stage renal failure, Petar Vukelich had been running out of options. His kidney function was at less than 10%, and in an anguished attempt to find a living donor for him, he and his family were reaching out to his Sunnyside community and beyond.

When Lauren Grom met her best friend, Julie Wood, she didn’t know her friend would save her life one day. In 2020, Grom learned from her doctors at D.C.’s George Washington University Hospital that she would have to either start dialysis or begin the long process of trying to find a kidney donor.

A Gwinnett County teen is getting ready to head to the University of North Georgia next year, five years after receiving a kidney from his neighbor.

A year after his desperate plea on Denver7, a Colorado man’s life was transformed by a neighbor he’d never met, sparking a chain of kidney transplants that saved multiple lives.

A woman from Nebraska is celebrated in Camden for being a stranger who turned into a lifesaver. On Friday, a grateful family from Cape May met the woman who donated a kidney not knowing who the recipient would be.

While one sister celebrates a first anniversary, the other sister celebrates the life-saving gesture of a lifelong friend.