Stories of Hope

Muslim donor mom encourages conversation about organ and tissue donation Karim Khassouan lived a short, quiet life, and his spirit will carry on in the…

Jade Townsend spent a brief time on Earth and made a big difference Baby Jade came into the world with all odds against her and…

‘It has to stop because too many people are losing their lives,’ says donor mom Terra DeFoe encouraged her son, Emilio, to sign up as…

‘I’d do it again if I could, but you can only do it once’ When Ryan Miller needed a new kidney, there was a long…

Aarolyn McCullough knew she would need a liver transplant more than 10 years before her miracle happened. Diagnosed in the late 1990s with Primary Biliary…

Battle Creek woman beats cancer, achieves dreams with donated tissue Kristen Main faced an impossible choice before she even turned 13 years old. She mentioned…

Donated tissue allows breast cancer survivor to quickly resume life, activity   With a history of breast cancer in her family, Sue Pilon was not…

When Michael Love started to experience shortness of breath, the Southfield resident said he thought it’d be easy to treat. He was 50 years old…

Sometimes, life throws you a curveball. Mohamed El-Souri knows this better than most people. The 18-year-old Dearborn resident was a healthy, active teen who fell…

One minute Oliver Hale was on top of the world, the next he was flat on his back. Hale, a Kentwood resident, had just won…

Dominick Anastasi is back to playing catch and coaching his sons in basketball, baseball and football. He’s grateful for the experience, considering a year ago,…

Jean Washington is now in a group that has far too many members: she’s waiting for a life-saving organ. Washington, 48, of Southfield, had been…

There had been a shooting and his daughter, 7-year-old Amaia Edmond, was involved. Edmond said he barely remembers the frantic trip to Sparrow Hospital in…

Da’Kota Washington was born by C-section in August, and her placenta was the first to be donated as part of Arizona’s new program giving moms…

Earl James has some advice for men who are inclined to ignore the typical aches and pains that come with age: ignore them at your peril. James…