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Paul Pelosi, the husband of San Francisco Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, is recovering after a kidney transplant.

Friday is Valentine’s Day, but it’s also National Donor Day. For a Pleasant Hills couple, it’s also the day one year ago, when they started a life-saving journey at Allegheny General Hospital.

Wisconsin resident Gavin Scudella had been sick for a long time and was facing a challenging health future as he received weekly dialysis and waited to receive a donor kidney.

Eric Weichselbaumer isn’t looking for sympathy. He’s looking to inspire people to consider kidney donation.

Debilitated by dialysis, Sandy Willard is scheduled to receive a transplanted kidney from a unexpected donor—Missouri racer Brennon Willard, her son.

Ernie Falbo’s future certainly looked, well, uncertain that day two years ago his doctor told him he had kidney disease. Stage 4 kidney disease. At age 79. His numbers were bad and getting worse, the doctor said, and soon he would need daily dialysis or a transplant.

There’s never been a safer time to give a kidney. The risk of death for people who donated a kidney has dropped by more than half in the last decade, according to a study published Wednesday. 

Angelina and Jereme were classmates in typing class together 25 years ago and now they’re bonded through a living kidney donation.

In 2017, Carl Jackson was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease and congestive heart failure. “I didn’t get on the list,” said Jackson. “The transplant list right away. I was on dialysis for six years.” Jackson was considered high risk for receiving a kidney because of his heart condition. After a series of tests and an ICD, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, he…

At age 72, Carol McCabe went into kidney failure. There was a 7-year waitlist for a deceased donor kidney and her life expectancy on dialysis was 3 1/2 years. Her husband, Jon, donated a kidney through Loyola Medicine’s Living Kidney Donor Program. “I’m pretty sure my kidneys will outlast both of us,” he said.