The 15th annual Paint El Paseo Pink will host an in-person event in Palm Desert this Fall. The Saturday, October 9 Desert Cancer Foundation fundraiser has allowed for millions of dollars of care for more than 8,000 Coachella Valley cancer patients. Registration is open to teams and individuals at PaintElPaseoPink.org.
Jeffrey Roberts, a Rancho Mirage resident, was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2018. Today is his two year anniversary of relying on dialysis. “Each one of us has our own attending physicians, and they work in conjunction with the center, it works very well. We have nurses on site, usually two at a time, and […]
(WBZ) — Gloucester grandmother Nettie Williams helped get her grandchildren ready to go out for dinner Thursday night, to celebrate her 54th birthday. “You just wouldn’t think that I’ve just had a kidney transplant,” she said with a big smile. She did, though, ending two years of kidney failure and dialysis caused by diabetes – with […]
At just 31-years-old Marco Curiel from Cathedral City was dealt a devastating blow. “I, I was kind of in shock I didn’t really know where to go from there,” says Curiel. Two years ago doctors told him he’s at end stage renal disease. “I didn’t know that it was going to involve going to dialysis […]
An Asheboro church held a special service to recognize organ donors who helped save other lives and encourage people to sign up to become one. Before the service, two families who’ve never met got the chance to see each other for the first time. Susan Hunt stood inside of a room with tears filling her […]
A Twin Cities man has no problem helping a brother out, especially when the person in need is his younger brother with a serious kidney disease. When he was in high school Jeff Morton was diagnosed with a life-threatening disease that his father also had. His brother Scott was a match for a kidney donation, […]
When Tina Quizon’s nightly call back home to her parents went unanswered one day, she knew something was wrong. Her mother, Juliet Quizon, had failing kidneys for over a decade, something she kept hidden from her daughters because she didn’t even want them to consider donating a kidney to her. “What if one of them […]
