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December 29, 2015 - Organ donors make a difference – KCWY 13, Casper, WY

Jason Wynia found out he needed a heart transplant May of 2008. After having breathing troubles, doctors found Wynia’s heart working at 10%, while the normal heart works at 65%. After heart surgery, doctors installed a heart pump to keep him alive until a transplant become available. Wynia says he went through a sea of emotions during his heart transplant.

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December 29, 2015 - Monument mom honors daughter and lifesaving cause at 2016 Rose Parade – The Gazette, Colorado Springs, CO

Mark and Gail Gallagher’s 26-year-old daughter, Kate, was on the transplant list awaiting a donor liver when she suffered the cerebral hemorrhage that ended her life in March 2012. Despite the fact that Kate had liver disease and was on the waiting list herself, she saved three lives through the donation of both kidneys and her heart, which went to a 12-year-old girl. For her parents, continuing to share Kate’s story in the years after her death is about more than keeping memories alive.

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December 21, 2015 - Woman on organ transplant waitlist list becomes donor herself – 9News, Denver, CO

Organ donation is a sensitive subject. The end of someone’s life becomes a new beginning for someone else. Gail Gallagher didn’t think her daughter would be one of those people. Her daughter, Kate, suffered from a rare disease and needed a liver. She was originally put on the transplant list to receive the organ. However, she ended up being the organ donor herself.

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December 11, 2015 - Fort Collins woman sees brother give life in death – Coloradoan, Fort Collins, CO

Melanie Anderson knows her brother Dirk’s death in a 2013 car accident has enabled a young boy to see. She knows that a firefighter received a skin graft and several cancer patients have received bone marrow — all because her brother was an organ donor.

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December 09, 2015 - Transplant patient shares ‘miracle story’ – Englewood Herald, Englewood, CO

Wes Cook recalls vividly a motorcycle ride he took three years ago. It was to be his last. Cook, a Parker resident for 12 years, was also planning to get rid of his skis, because he was almost certain he would never use them again. Meanwhile, he was compiling notes in a book for his wife filled with details about finances and how to winterize the house.

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November 18, 2015 - Colorado mother meets late daughter’s kidney recipient – NBC 11 News, Grand Junction

Kate Gallagher’s kindness and compassion now live on through others. Her heart was transplanted into a 12-year-old in Denver and one of her kidneys was given to a woman in her 60’s outside Colorado. Her other kidney went to Tony Lobato of Nucla. For six years, he needed a new kidney.

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November 13, 2015 - Tony Lobato meets mother of kidney donor – Norwood Post, Nucla

West End Schools District Board of Education President William “Tony” Lobato will this week meet the mother of his kidney donor. Lobato, 62, said he waited six and a half years on the transplant wait list.

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November 12, 2015 - Donor Mother Meets Organ Recipient – Fox 4, Grand Junction

Gail Gallagher’s daughter Kate was placed on a waiting list for a liver transplant in 2009 after being diagnosed with a rare clotting disease. Kate never received a liver before passing away, but she did become a donor. Gallagher is passionate about organ donation and on Thursday met the recipient of her daughter’s kidney, William “Tony” Labato for the first time.

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October 28, 2015 - The gift that keeps on giving – Colorado Springs Independent

Bob Campbell of the Colorado Springs Independent talks to people on the street about their thoughts on organ, eye and tissue donation.

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August 07, 2015 - Semana Nacional de la Donacion – La Prensa, Denver

La Prensa news sits down with Vinny Castilla and Donor Alliance to talk about organ, eye and tissue donation and National Minority Donor Awareness Week.

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