Share Your Good News Transplant Stories - Like this One

@joko, I can't resist the invitation to share a story about one of our Transplant group members, @jolinda
- Colleagues Go From Sharing a Workplace to Sharing a Kidney https://sharing.mayoclinic.org/2016/10/26/colleagues-go-from-sharing-a-workplace-to-sharing-a-kidney/

Thanks for sharing, Colleen. Stories like this one about Jolinda make you speechless.

What a wonderful story! My anonymous bone marrow donor was a young woman in her twenties, and I am so grateful for her generosity and selflessness! It shows you that there are still many wonderful people in this world! ❤️

Here is a Good News story that I came across today.
This year marks the 42nd anniversary since transplant for Mary Roethler of Elma, Iowa. At the age of 15 she received a kidney transplant in Rochester at the Mayo Clinic where her sister was her living donor.
https://www.kttc.com/2022/03/22/iowa-woman-celebrates-42-years-since-kidney-transplant-donation-sister/

Here is Good News Story: Kentucky man gets double lung transplant after months-long COVID-19 battle. (my own transplant journey began at Univ of Kentucky Medical Center in 2008)

Here's another story on one of Mayo's own. 42 years. Congratulations. https://www.kttc.com/2022/03/22/iowa-woman-celebrates-42-years-since-kidney-transplant-donation-sister/?linkId=157926428

@joko, I saw this and I am inspired to keep on keeping on! When I was at my appointment several years ago, I dared to ask about life expectancy. The attending doctor at that visit, Dr Thomas Schwab, simply replied that Mayo has patients living 40 years with a kidney transplant. I wonder if this patient was one that he was thinking of.

My surgeon answered a similar question about longevity with a smile and said: "Joe, you're going to get hit by a bus in the Loop before your kidney rejects. My first transplant at the U of San Francisco CA has had his kidney for years and is married with two children." Then he pointed to the photograph up on the wall of his first transplant. You never really know, but humor is the best answer.

Today, I saw this on Mayo News Network titled: Surgery helps Chuck Smith avoid heart transplant, meet new grandson
https://youtu.be/Aif-5VqYAx8

Good News for
Those waiting for a Heart, thought I would share an interesting article about a new Heart Transplant method that the Surgeon that did mine just pioneered here in Phoenix. Called Heart in a Box
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/heart-in-a-box-medical-advancement-speeds-up-donor-and-transplant-process-save-more-lives