Lindsey Bingham
Lindsey Bingham of North Powder, Oregon, is eight-years-old and suffers from dilated cardiomypathy.
Lindsey's Story
Addy Neal
Since August 8, 2010, Addy Neal has been able to breathe! She knows how lucky she is to have received this second chance at life after watching her best friend die waiting for the same gift.
Addy's Story
Justice Williams
Justice's transplant was a gift of hope. We are lucky that Justice is able to play, grow, learn, and love. Everyone should have that chance.
Justice 's Story
Rob Ayers
Rob has been able to be a father to his daughter and celebrate the birth of his son Jonathan.
Rob 's Story
Sophia Boyer
Laura and Brian Boyer’s youngest daughter Sophia was diagnosed at birth with Alpha-1-Anti-trypsin deficiency disorder, a rare genetic disorder affecting the liver and eventually the lungs.
Sophia's Story
Hayley Resk
Hayley Resk is a happy, healthy college student after receiving a partial liver transplant from the most important person in her life, her mother.
Hayley's Story
Gary Lodge
At age 34, Gary’s life came to a sudden end when a blood clot lodged at the base of his brain. In the midst of a devastating loss, Brenda knew Gary wanted to be an organ, eye and tissue donor – he had a ‘D’ on his license.
Gary's Story
Bernadette Artharee
For almost three years, while I waited, I received dialysis. The treatments, given three times a week, became my life. Dialysis wasn’t living, it was postponing death
Bernadette's Story
Susan Hasset
Susan's personal fight against Hypertrophic Cardiomiopathy has finally ended, thanks to one individual who registered as an organ donor.
Susan 's Story
Scott Nance
After the tragic loss of his daughter, Scott Nance finds strength in sharing their story while spreading awareness for organ, eye, and tissue donation.
Scott's Story
Bob Dexter
With a new liver and a second chance at life, my life has changed in so many ways. I was even able to walk my daughter down the aisle.
Bob 's Story
Sharol & Marlene
One year after the transplant, Sharol and Marlene sought to meet each other. In an ironic twist of fate, the two found they lived just two miles apart.
Sharol & Marlene's Story
Katy Portell
At a mere four-years-old, Katy was deemed strong and old enough for open-heart surgery. It was then that she received a pulmonary artery.
Katy's Story
Rosie Tabb
Heart recipient Rosie Tabb relishes every minute of her busy life once dominated by congestive heart failure.
Rosie 's Story
Lynda Myers
Every morning when I wake up, reach for my glasses and realize I don’t need them.
Lynda's Story
Carlos Aguilar
What began as a simple problem with his knee, later revealed much more serious issues with his health: he and his mother Lilia learned that his kidneys were failing.
Carlos's Story
Marissa Salgado
“Thank you, dad!” Marissa Salgado cannot say it enough. When chronic kidney failure changed her life, the 16-year-old endured years of daily dialysis.
Marissa 's Story
Jamie Hiner
On January 26th, 2011, Jamie’s transplant coordinator called saying, "We have a new liver for you."
Jamie's Story
Will Lewis
Will Lewis had been sick as long as he could remember, so it came as no surprise when doctors informed him that he’d need a kidney transplant.
Will 's Story
Patrice Hudson
Patrice Hudson shares a special bond with her youngest sister, Bobbi.
Patrice's Story
Rosie Tabb
Congestive heart failure didn’t stop Rosie Tabb from working and enjoying life. But in 2006 her health took a turn for the worse. Making her bed left her exhausted; she could not stay awake during a board game with her granddaughters. I went to see my doctor and told him I thought my medication might need to be changed. He said “Yes, we need to change your medication, but you also need a heart transplant. “I was shocked to realize he meant it!” she says. “He didn’t even want me to go home that day… I never thought I would need a heart transplant.”
A longtime Legacy Health Systems employee, Rosie was admitted to OHSU hospital May 18, 2006 and received her new heart May 29, 2006 at age 66. She doesn’t know who her donor was or where the donor lived. But she says she will be eternally grateful her donor registered as an organ donor – and eventually saved her life. “The doctors said I would not have lived another three months,” she says. “My health now is really good.”
Today Rosie leads a full life. She takes care of her twin granddaughters and volunteers for her church, American Red Cross and Donate Life Northwest, talking to church, school and African American groups about organ donation. Rosie swims, scrapbooks, travels, and now enjoys the weekly game night with her four-generation family.
Donate Life Northwest urges people to designate themselves as a donor. Code your driver's license as donor, sign up on line at donatelifenw.org, or call 503.494.7888 or 1.800.452.1369 for a paper registry form. Please... share your decision with your family!