kidney donor

In September 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave a Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation. It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients across Canada. 

In this episode, Host Candice is joined by Ian Goodall-George, who self proclaimed himself as the poster child for boring, but is anything but that. Ian is an anonymous, non directed kidney donor, meaning he stepped forward to donate a kidney to a stranger, just out of the goodness of his heart. 

The views and opinions expressed in this interview do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Toronto General Hospital or the University Health Network. 

To submit or share your story, please reach out to us at livingorgandonation@uhn.ca

To view the Great Actions Leave a Mark campaign, please visit www.greatactions.ca 

In September 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave a Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation. It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients across Canada. 

In this episode, Host Candice is joined by Ashley, a world traveller and horseback rider who donated a kidney to a stranger through the Kidney Paired Donation program. 

The views and opinions expressed in this interview do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Toronto General Hospital or the University Health Network. 

To submit or share your story, please reach out to us at livingorgandonation@uhn.ca

To view the Great Actions Leave a Mark campaign, please visit www.greatactions.ca 

To learn more about the Kidney Paired Donation program, please visit https://www.blood.ca/en/about-us/media/kidney-paired-donation/backgrounder-kidney-paired-donation-program#:~:text=The%20national%20Kidney%20Paired%20Donation%20(KPD)%20program%20is%20an%20interprovincial,become%20a%20living%20kidney%20donor. 

In September, 2022, we launched Great Actions Leave A Mark, a national, multi-year public awareness campaign about living organ donation and transplantation.  It has images and videos of living kidney and liver donors and recipients across Canada. In the coming weeks, you'll hear stories from great actions models about their journey with living organ donation.

In this episode, Host Candice interviewed Craig Settee, a family man and marathon runner who donated a kidney to his brother just over ten years ago.

The views and opinions expressed in this interview do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Toronto General Hospital or the University Health Network.

To submit your story, please reach out to us at livingorgandonation@uhn.ca

To view the Great Actions Leave a Mark campaign, visit www.greatactions.ca 

To learn more about organizations discussed in this podcast please visit:
Ajmera Transplant Centre: https://www.uhn.ca/Transplant 
CanSolve CKD: https://cansolveckd.ca/ 
BC Transplant: http://www.transplant.bc.ca/
Transplant Manitoba: https://www.transplantmanitoba.ca/ 
TAP: https://transplantambassadors.ca/ 
Living Donor Circle of Excellence: https://www.livingdonorcircle.com/partner/cst 
PRELOD: https://www.giftoflife.on.ca/resources/pdf/PRELOD_Online_Brochure_April_2022_FINAL.pdf 
Hope Air: https://hopeair.ca/ 

Rocío Muñoz tenía una enfermedad renal tan grave que en pocos años acumuló 76 visitas a la sala de emergencias y 13 cirugías. Su situación se volvió tan severa que la unica esperanza para ella era recibir un trasplante de riñon. Una Navidad recibieron una llamada diciendo que habian encontrado un riñon compatible, y ella y su esposo Gerardo Huerta se fueron al hospital, llenos de esperanza y al mismo tiempo incrédulos. Al cabo un helicóptero trajo esa segunda oportunidad de vida que Rocío tanto necesitaba, y de no haber sido por un donante de organos, ellos no estarían aquí para dar las gracias y contar su historia. 

Rocío Muñoz developed kidney disease so severe that in just a few years she had 76 emergency room visits and 13 surgeries. Her only hope was a kidney transplant. One Christmas she received a call saying they had found a donor. She and her husband Gerardo Huerta went to the hospital full of hope and disbelief. Finally, a helicopter brought that second chance at life that Rocío needed, and if it hadn't been for an organ donor, they wouldn't be here to say thank you and share their story.

Donor Diaries is a podcast about the beauty and messiness of living organ donation.  Get ready for some amazing stories about what happens when people decide to share their organs with other people, when people chose to share life.  The sharing of kidneys and other organs is an incredibly fascinating topic that teaches a lot about kindness, love, and life!

There are over 100,000 people on the kidney transplant waitlist today, and sadly about 13 people die each day waiting for a kidney that they never receive.  One in three Americans are at risk for developing chronic kidney disease and one in nine already have kidney disease.  Most don’t even know it.   

Donor Diaries shares unfiltered stories of kidney donation through the voices of living donors and straight talk from transplant experts who are committed to bringing the conversation of living organ donation to the forefront of society, so patients no longer have to die or suffer while waiting for a transplant.

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