George Franklin celebrates 50 years and counting with his kidney transplant. The summer George Franklin turned 18 years old; he had plans of enlisting in the military. But once he got sick, his plans changed. After a bout with an ongoing cold, his mom took him to the hospital to get answers. There, he found out he had high blood pressure and was transferred to the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, where he was unexpectedly diagnosed with end-stage renal

Emily Bardales was only nine months old when her parents, Vicky and Marvin, found out her heart was not functioning properly. They...

Sierr’a’s favorite picture with her daughter Sienna.  Sienna Dixon-Newman was born in January 2008. After having several debilitating asthma attacks, she was diagnosed with severe asthma at nine months old. Tragically, in 2015, at only seven years old, Sienna passed away from an asthma attack. Because her parents made the selfless decision for Sienna to be a tissue donor, Sienna saved and healed more than 75 lives. Her donations included her heart valves, corneas to restore s

Dave honors his donor hero at the Infinite Legacy Donate Life Fun Run. In 2017, Dave McLaughlin of Catonsville, MD, was going about his normal life until one day he started feeling sick and had a stroke. Dave went into heart failure and learned that his heart was only functioning at 10% effectiveness. To survive, Dave had an abdominal left ventricular assistance device (LVAD) implanted in 2019 to help blood pump more effectively.    Over the next few months, Dave continued to