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Lisa Haney
Blog, Stories of Hope | mayo 7, 2025

Transplant Throwback: Lisa Haney

Name: Lisa Haney  Age: 54  Home: Detroit  Transplant: Heart  Why did you need a transplant and when did it happen?  My heart issues started as…

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His time as a nurse assistant at Mott helping pediatric heart patients is a full-circle experience for Tommy.
Blog, LifeLines, Stories of Hope | mayo 7, 2025

Tommy Schomaker survives and thrives helping sick kids like him

He graduated this spring with a nursing degree Tommy Schomaker entered the world in 2000 with half a heart. The otherwise-perfect 7-pound baby faced a…

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Blog, Stories of Hope | mayo 7, 2025

A mother’s mission

When Cindy Hanback answered the phone and heard her son Alex’s voice, she thought he just had a cold.   “I had missed his original phone…

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Blog, Stories of Hope | mayo 7, 2025

A son’s gift of healing

When 23-year-old Dalton Magwood passed away, his mother Haley was devastated – but she carried a rare and powerful comfort: Dalton had shared his selfless…

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Deb Gustafson helps organize events where volunteers craft warm, fuzzy comfort blankets to help ease the grief of donor families.
Blog, LifeLines, Stories of Hope | abril 28, 2025

Volunteer Spotlight: Deb Gustafson gets a kidney, then offers comfort to families from her heart

Deb Gustafson’s life changed at church one morning when a friend named Bonnie sidled up to her and whispered, “I want to be tested.”  Disease…

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Blog, Stories of Hope | abril 15, 2025

“I’m so thankful I’m here and for the gift of life”

Brett Bowman, from Woodhaven, Mich., was born with cystic fibrosis. Growing up he was in and out of C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor….

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Londel Cook is living life to the fullest after his kidney transplant.
Blog, Stories of Hope | abril 10, 2025

“Where I was, was not who I was.”

When Saginaw-area resident Londel Cook was diagnosed with end stage renal failure at a young age, he didn’t understand the severity of his illness.   “I…

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Shalonda Griffin with her late husband, Greg Jones
Blog, Stories of Hope | abril 9, 2025

Turning pain into purpose

Gift of Life Michigan Community Outreach Coordinator Shalonda Griffin’s late husband Greg was the ‘greatest person she has ever met.’  “He put the color in…

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Kendall Todd received a heart transplant shortly after being added to the national waiting list.
Blog, Stories of Hope | marzo 14, 2025

“We are so grateful for them. They didn’t have to donate. They chose to.” 

When Cewanda Todd was 19-weeks pregnant, she was told her unborn daughter had a heart condition.   “Our doctors told us that she wouldn’t make…

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Jessica Bailey with her father, Deacon Lawrence Bailey, at a Detroit Lions game.
Blog, Stories of Hope | febrero 18, 2025

Kidney recipient and passionate advocate becomes tissue donor

Deacon Lawrence J. Bailey was a kidney transplant recipient, husband, father and a fervent advocate for organ and tissue donation. Thanks to his selfless decision…

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Steven Dye received a kidney transplant when his coworker, Jaime donated a kidney.
Blog, Stories of Hope | febrero 7, 2025

Police officer’s life saved by a colleague

Steven Dye seemed perfectly healthy with no symptoms before he was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.   “I had gone to visit my doctor for my…

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Jen Bennett has a new outlook on life, finding herself even more sympathetic and patient with people after her burn accident.
Blog, Stories of Hope | febrero 6, 2025

Gift of donor skin saves a mother of three after severe burn accident

Jen Bennett, a mother of three from Ravenna, Mich., was working hard to get healthier for her family in 2022. Ten months before the accident,…

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Michael Love, two-time double lung transplant recipient, is a Gift of Life volunteer
Blog, Stories of Hope | diciembre 10, 2024

Volunteer Spotlight: Two-time lung recipient gives hope to those waiting for a miracle of their own

When Michael Love woke up groggy from his lung transplant surgery in 2015, he instinctively felt his nose for the cannula that had delivered life-sustaining…

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Donor mom Kathy Vogelsang holding a framed photo of her daughter, Rebecca
Blog, Stories of Hope | diciembre 10, 2024

A donor mom becomes leader in the donation community

Kathy Vogelsang lends vision as chair of Gift of Life’s Governing Board  Kathy Vogelsang said goodbye to her daughter, Rebecca, as the bright and funny…

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Tim Schramm holding a photo of his father, Ray, in military uniform
Blog, Stories of Hope | diciembre 9, 2024

“Precious gifts saved my dad.”

One family’s story of tragedy, skin donation and 26 years of borrowed time Roy Schramm shouldn’t have survived.  With burns over 60% of his body,…

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