Tobin (right) writes, “I had been going through the donor screening for a friend who needed a kidney. I was a match and proceeded with the process, but in the end, they chose a different donor for my friend. It had since come to light that my friend Drew, who also...
Beth (left) writes, “Transplant is a marathon, not a sprint. It took my husband Tony (right) 5 years to get a doctor to refer him for his double lung transplant. We waited 6 months for the first appointment and it took another 6 months to go through pre-transplant...
Kim (right) writes, “When my dad passed away due to cardiac arrest at the tender age of 49, and a transplant team was not able save his life due to Victoria’s Blizzard of 1996, my mother Carol (left) was motivated to become an organ donor. 15 years later, my mother’s...
Tamara (left) writes, “I was 21 weeks pregnant, with Evanne (right), when it was discovered something was seriously wrong with her heart. I was 36 weeks pregnant when they listed her for a heart transplant. She was given no chance of survival if she was born without...
Laura (left) writes, “My incredible friend Nyssa (right) donated the entire right lobe of her liver to me in a life-saving living donor liver transplant in Edmonton on March 22, 2017. I suffered from PSC – a rare, autoimmune liver & bile duct disease that...