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Dialysis wasn't going to keep Chris Martin in one place. After winning a Dream Trip contest from Backpacker magazine, he set out on a three-day backpa...

Laurie is a single mom of two kids. She holds a Master’s degree from Hamline University, and has spent nineteen years in a career in Human resources m...

September 20, 2016. I'm less than two weeks away from my scheduled transplant surgery.  Just yesterday I met with a dear friend Theresa ...

In the fall of 2015, Alex Fox saw a Facebook post that would change his life. It was a picture of Darienne, a young girl with special needs whose mom,...

My name is Erin; I’m twenty one years old from Saint Paul, MN and a rising senior at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. When I was eleven years...

Dr. Adnan Abla is a neurosurgeon in Pittsburgh, PA, who was diagnosed with kidney failure last summer. He received a kidney from an anonymou...

In October 2011, my friend Matt’s life was turned upside down when he found out that he was in kidney failure and needed to start dialysis immediately...

Minnesota musician, filmmaker, producer and composer Chris Strouth had been dealing with kidney disease for years before his kidneys finally failed in...

From one mother’s mission to a 75-year legacy—learn how Ada DeBold’s fight for her son led to the creation of the National Kidney Foundation.