Donor Search Success Stories

Twins Jacob and Cameron Meadows, 18, spent most of their life in and out of hospitals and in search of kidney donors. After sharing their plea on a billboard more than four years ago, the boys are now young men in good health who encourage others to become kidney donors.

It’s not just blood that makes people family. For Susan Tower and Roosevelt Williams, it was luck. Last September, 7 Action News outsourced on the airwaves to help Roosevelt find a kidney. Susan saw the video and thought, “Hey, I’m type A. He’s type A. Why not just see if I can do this?”

To find a kidney donor for her son, Desiree Teubert posted heartfelt requests on TikTok. The videos caught the eye of Heather Kimbrough, who was eventually approved to be his donor. On March 19, Ryder got a new kidney.

Last summer, Debbie Munley was leaving Target in Marlborough, MA, when she saw Gail Weisberg’s sign on her car in the parking lot pleading for someone to donate a kidney. Without hesitation, Munley approached Weisberg and offered to help. Now, the two are recovering at home after a successful kidney transplant.

A lengthy search for a kidney donor, which involved a woman’s friends taking out a billboard to help, has a happy ending. K.C. Strader has a new kidney.

A Bucks County man needing a kidney donor has found a match, all thanks to social media. “I felt like I won the lottery of life, I really did,” Joe Fitch commented.

In the Charlotte, North Carolina, area, two dads have developed an irreplaceable bond after one donated a kidney to the other. Steve Sanders, who had been living with a very rare genetic condition called uromodulin kidney disease (UKD), decided to search for a kidney donor through a website he created. He shared the info on […]

Kyra Taylor, a 32-year-old single mother in Detroit, posted a desperate plea for a live kidney donor on Facebook. Somehow the post made it to Alexandra McCarthy in Kentucky. After years of substance abuse, Alexandra had recently turned her life around. “Now I am able to save a life,” she said. “It’s kind of a […]

After months of searching for a kidney transplant donor, Catherine Campbell found her perfect match literally right next door.

Steve Sanders knew a kidney donation would give him a second chance at life. When an exhaustive search of friends and family members found no compatible matches, Steve found hope in the unlikeliest of places—a stranger who worked at Atrium Health who was inspired by his story.