Amazing Stories of Lifesaving Organ Donors

Read about strangers and loved ones who reached out to provide a new lifeline for someone special.

From Reader's Digest

• Joyce Dineen donated a kidney to her husband, after he was diagnosed with kidney disease.
  
  
• A young teen, Matt Joyce, survived cystic fibrosis, thanks to two strangers who donated their lungs to him.
  
  
• Saylor Kirkpatrick celebrated her first birthday after receiving a liver.
  
  
• Sandra Landau undergoes a heart transplant just years after her husband suffered a life-threatening condition.

From Reader's Digest - February 2009

• • Amazing People
• • Medical Dramas
• • Survival Stories

• Best of America: She Gave at the Deli
• When customer Dan Heins casually mentioned that he needed a kidney, Nancy Volk volunteered one of hers.
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• In Sickness, in Health
• When my mother donated a kidney to my father, she gave him, and their marriage, a new life.
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• Every Breath He Takes
• Matt Joyce's lungs were failing him. Then two strangers came forward.
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• The Liver Donor
• Vote for the hero of the year.
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• Heart 2 Heart
• When her husband faced a life-threatening condition, she didn't know she'd be next.
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