Gift of new life during trying times
My name is Tash. I am 29 years old and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 10.
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Joe Lafferty: Living life Justin time
From ages 8 to 37, I overcame cancer, diabetes, vision loss, a pulmonary embolism, organ failure, open heart surgery, seven minutes of death, and a double organ transplant.
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Kathy, islet recipient
Kathy and Charles now can focus on their business and on enjoying the rewards of their life-long partnership.
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Liza, kidney/pancreas recipient
“I am someone filled with enormous gratitude, a heart bursting with love….”
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T1D free!
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1990 when I was 6 years old. I had for the most part taken very good care of myself, and I never let T1D hold me back. In 2016 I was told that my kidneys had begun to spill protein (proteinuria), but that they still were 100% functioning, that I did not have kidney disease, and that the kidneys could be saved with a pancreas- only transplant
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