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Danny John Richards
April 17, 2018

In November 2014, Danny received a second chance for life as the recipient of a liver transplant. We are very grateful to the family who donated their son’s liver when…

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Russ
April 17, 2018

My story begins in the early 1990s. I became ill while on deployment in the gulf and was flown back to the states for evaluation. I was treated with medication…

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Matthew Owen
April 10, 2018

I first started having health issues upon my return for military deployment back in the early 1990s. As time progressed, my health continued to decline, and in 1999 I was…

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Josh Ommen
February 21, 2018

I was diagnosed with stage 4 liver disease on Dec. 7, 2017. I wasn’t given a year to live. I didn’t have any family in the area, but I had…

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Robert Peak
November 3, 2017

My journey began very suddenly in November 2015 with several hospitalizations and surgeries to treat an elbow wound of unknown origin. It developed into cellulitis, MRSA, and sepsis. I was…

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Dimitrios Alexander Parks
October 23, 2017

Dimitri was 21 years old and very healthy. He was attending college and testing to join the LAPD. He was my fourth of five children and my youngest son. Dimitri…

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Jessica Drey
June 5, 2017

I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 9. Over the years I had complications, which include congestive heart failure, neuropathy in my stomach and legs, seizures and high…

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Patrick Ryan
November 4, 2016

Being able to focus your eyes together and see with your eyes is something many people take for granted! When I start to do that I remember what it was…

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Oliver Crawford
September 7, 2016

When we were pregnant with our son Oliver, they discovered his heart looked suspicious in his 18 week anatomy ultrasound. At 20 weeks our obstetrician said his heart definitely appeared…

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Clayton M Roe
September 7, 2016

My husband Clayton Roe was diagnosed with Hepatitis C around 2000. He was in a motorcycle accident in 1980 and required a blood transfusion. They did no testing for Hepatitis…

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