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On March 6, 2026, Dana Harwood was on the operating table at UC San Diego Transplant Center. Most people would be nervous, but not Harwood. “I’m happy to donate my kidney,” she recalls telling the medical team. “This is how it’s supposed to work. I have two and only need one. Why wouldn’t I share a kidney?” On March 6, 2026, Dana Harwood was on the operating table at UC San Diego Transplant Center. Most people would be nervous, but not Harwood. “I’m happy to donate my kidney,” she recalls telling the medical team. “This is how it’s supposed to work. I have two and only need one. Why wouldn’t I share a kidney?” View full story

CANTON ‒ Coworkers Rebecca Turney and Kyle Slone and are in the business of saving people — usually, the lives of others. She fulfills that role as director of the Canton Communication and Dispatch Center. He is a sergeant in the Canton Police Department. Both work in the basement of City Hall. Now Turney is preparing to give a life-saving gift to Slone: a kidney.     View full story

Being told you need a kidney transplant is overwhelming. Being told you need to go find your own living donor while managing dialysis can feel impossible. For many veterans, that is exactly how the system works today. In this episode, we sit down with Sharyn Kreitzer, a living kidney donor and longtime transplant professional with nearly three decades of experience in end-stage organ disease.  Listen to podcast

CLEVELAND — News 5 is Following-Through and highlighting the gift of life and the growing impact of a non-profit working to save veterans’ lives nationwide — and right here in Northeast Ohio.   View full story

For decades, Roger Esquibel has stood his post. As a Marine who served during the Iraq War, he lived by a code that prioritized the safety of others over his own comfort, a silent promise to protect a community he might never meet. But today, in his quiet home in Sioux Falls, the battlefield has shifted. The uniform is gone, replaced by the steady, rhythmic hum of a dialysis machine that keeps the 55-year-old veteran alive, one grueling session at a time.   View full story

ST. CLOUD, Fla. — An Army veteran from Osceola County finally received the help he’s been waiting years for in the form of a kidney donation. Retired MSgt. Owen McCurty, who lives in St. Cloud, was profiled in a November story on WESH 2 as he sought to raise awareness of his situation: high creatinine levels in his kidneys, kidney disease and the need for eventual dialysis. Click here