Community Health Article
Community Health Article
On January 9, 2007 an article was published in the LaCrosse Tribune which touched base on living donors. A lady named Cindy Stambach needed a kidney once her own kidney failed after chemotherapy to treat ovarian cancer. A total stranger named Rick Gardner, who is a nurse at Franciscan Skemp in Stoddard Wisconsin, decided to give up one of his kidneys to her. Rick stated that he had seen so many people waiting for a transplant and that he wanted once less person to have to wait for a kidney.
Cindy Stambach received Rick Gardner's kidney 20 months ago. The operation took place at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Gardner became the seventh non-directed altruistic donor (on March 30, 2005) since the Mayo clinic started allowing strangers to donate organs in 2003. Cindy is very grateful that Rick helped save her life. She along with many others can still not believe it. Cindy wondered if she would ever be able to meet her donor and she soon received a......
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