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2008 Recipients Kathryn Lynch received a successful kidney transplant in 1988; however, in 2002, she was diagnosed with Vulvar Cancer and in 2003 her donated kidney stopped working. Then, in 2008, Kathryn developed Peritonitis, which is an infection that develops in the peritoneal cavity. Read her story...
Rachel Regitz is a beautiful 6 ½ year old little girl and is the youngest of four children. Rachel was born as a healthy,” normal” baby. She developed normally until she was 6 months old, but shortly thereafter, we began to notice that she was not doing the same things that our other three children had by 6 months of age. Read her story...
In March 1996, Sarah Lynn Washington was four years of age when diagnosed with a brain tumor called Craniopharyngioma. This is a benign tumor that reoccurs about every 2 years. The effects of the brain tumor on Sarah, has been such that she has not develop physically or mentally. Read her story...
Hello, my name is Lisa Sehon Fournet. My battle with cancer began in august of 2007 when I felt a lump under my
right arm. Being quite an active person, I thought that I had just pulled or strained a muscle. Read her story...My name is William J. Guidry. As the years passed, hypertension and diabetes started to affect my kidney function. Later, I had biopsies on both kidneys. The early biopsies revealed the kidneyshad no disease, but their functioning continued to drop. In 2005, my kidney function was down to 12%. Read his story...
My name is Chris Richardson. August 6th, 2007. That day has forever changed my life. I was involved in a motorcycle crash and when I left my bike, I hit a post office sign, ripping both of my legs off above the knee. Read his story...
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While Bethany Boudreaux was waiting at a stoplight, she was
hit from behind at a high rate of speed. She was not to see her home again for almost nine months. Bethany sustained a traumatic brain injury, a fractured bone in her pelvis, and abrasions and cuts on her right leg. Read her story...Noah Plaisance was born on June 23,1999, as a normal healthy child. At five months of age he began to have seizures and was taken to various doctors. after a series of test, doctors found nothing and told us to take him home, love him,and make him as comfortable as possible. Read his story...
