Stories of Hope

Our goal at Donate Life Northwest is to educate and encourage people to sign up on their state donor registry. Why? To offer hope to the parents of an 11-year-old boy given six months to live unless he receives a heart transplant. To give grieving families the knowledge their loved one left a selfless legacy. To join in celebration of lives saved and sight and mobility restored because a person's decision to donate was known and honored at their time of death. Because organ, eye and tissue donation is about one human being offering the gift of life to another. Submit Your Story
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John Kirkpatrick

John Kirkpatrick is a retired Doctor of Internal medicine who is alive today thanks to the lung transplant he received in 2022.

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Archie Langford

When Archie retired from his career as a walking mailman, he was excited about the extra time he would have. Unfortunately, in Spring 2020, he was diagnosed with kidney failure.

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Hayley Resk

In January 2024, Hayley received a liver transplant at the University of Washington, thanks to a generous donor. But it wasn’t Hayley’s first time in this particular position.

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Jeanne Leason

Jeanne has worked in healthcare most of her life. But in 2024, she found herself on the other side of the bed as a patient in desperate need of a liver transplant.

Ken Reese

An average kidney transplant lasts between 10-15 years. The kidney Ken received from his mother has lasted 50 years -- still going strong and looking forward to the future.

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Abby Richter

Abby Richter has a promising future ahead of her thanks to a generous liver donor.

Adrian Miller

When hypertension and renal failure picked a fight with Adrian, he and his family fought back! And now, thanks to a generous donor, he's fighting for others through advocacy.

Alysia Yamasaki

Alysia is grateful for both of the kidney donors and the donor families who are making life possible for her.

Amanda Biederman

Amanda Biederman

Amanda was a 27-year-old oncology nurse, working at a job she loved, when life took a hard turn – end stage lung disease.

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Andrew Wheeler

IgA Nephropathy turned Andrew's life upside down and moved him thousands of miles. But thanks to a kidney donor, Andrew has a healthy life and a future.