A child going through health problems especially those which are heart-related can be a painful thing for a parent to witness. However, one in 77 children are diagnosed with a heart condition in the United ...
Jaelyn Kinchelow is hoping her story of being given a second chance will raise awareness about organ donation. The 24-year-old recently received a heart transplant after suffering a heart attack 10 years earlier. Initially Kinchelow ...
A baby girl who waited 218 days for a heart transplant, including the last six months in a Chicago hospital, finally received her new heart last month. According to Good Morning America, Elodie Carmen Baker received ...
According to the American Heart Association, the average time wait time for a heart transplant varies based on a number of factors, but one thing is for sure it is not a quick process. For ...
Rick Rideout was always on the go, working long hours, and regularly playing softball, but it all came to a crashing halt one September in the late 80s when he suddenly couldn’t breathe. He went ...
After a grueling 372 days in hospital, Dylan Nettles is finally home. The 6-year-old from Hampton, Georgia, had a long wait for a new and healthy heart, but he’s now home and ready to tackle ...
Have you sent out your Christmas cards yet? If you haven’t, William Sidebottom asks that you add him to your list. The nine-year-old from Asheboro, North Carolina was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) ...
"Jonathan was very sick, but he wasn’t eligible for a transplant because he didn’t have a support system."
In October 2015, Becky Turner’s life was turned upside down. Her 19-year-old son Triston died of an accidental gunshot wound. The teen was an organ donor and his organs were used so that others could ...
After Michael Stepien’s tragic death, his heart was donated to a man named Arthur Thomas, who was on his deathbed at the time. “I was on death’s door when he was murdered and I needed ...