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'Kids at Heart' Customer Donates Kidney to Owner
For about 30 years, Liz Campbell has owned the toy store 'Kids at Heart' on SE Hawthorne in Portland. In her line of work, she's usually the one supplying the presents -- but when she needed a kidney transplant last year, it was one of her customers...
Eugene Man Donates Kidney to Fellow Vietnam Veteran He Hadn't Seen in 45 Years
Former US Ambassador to Zimbabwe and Madagascar, Jim McGee needed a kidney. And though they hadn't seen each other in nearly half a century, 70-year-old Doug Coffman was happy to give one of his to save his old friend.
Albany Teen Seeks Second Liver Transplant
Chrystee Houser is hoping for a second miracle. Fifteen years ago, Houser’s son Rhyson was just 10 months old when his failing liver was replaced with a healthy one from a donor. Now, that liver is failing, and Rhyson and his family are hoping for...
Doctors Explore Lifting Barriers to Living Organ Donation
Surgeons turned down Terra Goudge for the liver transplant that was her only shot at surviving a rare cancer. Her tumor was too advanced, they said -- even though Goudge had a friend ready to be her living donor. But then, she found a hospital on...
Hood to Coast Relay Team Celebrates Gift of Life
Living donors, recipients, family members -- they have come together now for 21 years to walk in the Portland to Coast relay and honor the donations and transplantations they've experienced. They are celebrating life together.
Milton-Freewater Runner Garners Bronze in Transplant Games
After suffering kidney disease at age 26 and receiving a living kidney donation from a family friend in Deecember 2011, Steve Porter of Milton-Freewater has gone on to compete in the 2018 Transplant Games of America and bring home a bronze medal.
Local Athletes Help Raise Donor Awareness at Transplant Games
Clackamas, Ore. residents Theresa Baker, her son Travis, and friend Dan Felts joined Team Northwest for the 2018 Transplant Games of American in Salt Lake City.
A Heart for Others, Teen's Death Has Far-reaching Impact
In March 2016, Vicky Johnson was just 58 years old, but thought she had reached the end of her life-long battle with congestive heart failure and was preparing her obituary. 500 miles away, Isabel Santoro, 14, had tired of being bullied by her...
Everyday Hero: A Tragic Death and Organ Donation Leads to the Gift of Life
In Everyday Hero we meet the mother of a 14-year-old girl who died tragically, and the woman who received the girl's heart, just days before doctors said she would have died without it.
The 'Heart' of Camas Days
Laurie Havener received a heart transplant in October 2016. Now the focus of her efforts is on spreading awareness in honor of her donor, Rachel.