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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 12:22
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"Why not save a life through the media? Why isn't every TV station, newspaper, radio show doing this every day, mommy?" Rafi (3-year-old)  Post your medical emergency oroffer life saving help on our site. If you work in news, will you connect a person dying with a person who can help?Watch our short video and sign up for our weekly Save 1 person news breaks today.
Last Updated on Friday, 11 September 2009 17:07
Media Saves Lives 1 Person at a Time!
Friday, 07 August 2009 12:46
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I want to thank Save 1 Person for helping to facilitate the kidney transplant that ultimately saved my life. Thanks to the organization's media network, I am again a healthy husband, employer, son, brother, friend and, most important, father of four great kids, with another on the way. I am just one small example of how the media can make a difference.
In 2004, I was a 36-year-old father of three children under 5, dependent on dialysis for life support. But dialysis was racking my body. My blood pressure skyrocketed as high as 280/180. Doctors were afraid I'd suffer a stroke or worse. I was already suffering severe migraines which were debilitating for up to 12 hours after dialysis was over. Due to a prior transplant (after a 7 year wait) and blood transfusions, I was a difficult person to "match," as I'd built up antibodies to the most common antigens found in most of the population.
Thanks to my wife getting the word out to friends and family, nearly 100 people were tested for me. That's the power of the internet. Friends passed her appeal onto friends. All this forwarding landed her email in the inbox of Save 1 Person, an organization that highlights one person in the media weekly who needs a medical miracle. Thank God, Lauren found it worthy enough to highlight my situation a Save 1 Person news break and distribute it to her media contacts across the globe. Our miracle was in motion when Alice Stockton Rossini of 1010 WINS picked up the Save 1 Person news break and ran a story on me. As a result, hundreds of people called my hospital to inquire about getting tested. We were looking for a needle in a haystack and 1010 WINS cast the wide net we needed. Among those who called was a lovely woman from the Bronx named Regina Grebb.
Many people hear a heart-wrenching story and they want to help. They even take the first step, but fear understandably takes over. Relatives dissuade their good intentions. A spouse puts his foot down. Second thoughts settle in. Regina was tenacious every step of the way, as we later learned (at the time, everything was kept from us. This is done so the potential recipient can't make contact with the potential donor and possibly attempt to coerce, bribe or otherwise influence the decision). Ultimately, Regina was the needle in the haystack and a date was set. We both came through the surgery with flying colors. My wife met her parents in the waiting room and they cried and prayed together. The afternoon after the surgery, Regina and I were allowed to meet. It remains one of the most pivotal and spiritual moments of my life. It's like meeting your own guardian angel. When I asked her why she did it, she said “I felt it was something I was meant to do and if it could save a life, why not?” But Regina didn't stop there. She went on to pursue her dream of motherhood, despite being single. She had a successful pregnancy with one kidney and is now the mother of a beautiful 14-month-old girl.
Not to be outdone, I am happy to report my wife and I had our fourth child last December, and we are now pregnant with our fifth :-) I am so grateful to God for the children he has given both Regina and me. Without Regina, I might not be alive, much less a father of four. And Regina says donating her kidney gave her the confidence to become a mommy without a mate. We remain very close to her and to her parents and look forward to many more celebrations together.
It has been over 4 years since I received Regina's kidney. And everyday I ponder over how a stranger could give a gift like this to a stranger. Could I have done the same thing? Could you? With gratitude to Save 1 Person and 1010 WINS for highlighting a Save 1 Person news break.
Stuart Zimmer
Last Updated on Sunday, 09 August 2009 19:13
Beautiful 13-Year-Old Needs Living Kidney Donor
Monday, 30 March 2009 10:28
Kelly (mom)
13-year-old in need of kidney transplant
Shawl of hope: Karli Chadwick and her mom, Kellie, sit while being draped with the prayer shawl they were given from the Knit Knacks of Clanton First United Methodist Church. Karli Chadwick is, for the most part, your typical young girl. Unfortunately right now, some of these things are on hold. For most of Karli’s life, she has been in and out of the hospital. Karli is 13 years old and in dire need of a kidney transplant. The day before Karli was to be admitted to Children’s Hospital to have a port put in for dialysis, she and her mom met the “Knit Knacks” of Clanton First United Methodist Church. The Knit Knacks presented Karli’s mom, Kellie, with a prayer shawl and then prayed for both mother and daughter. Christians throughout the community have been praying for Karli and her need for a kidney. If you think you might be interested in considering the possibility of being a kidney donor for Karli, you may call Children’s Hospital and talk with Transplant Coordinator Cindy Richards at (205) 939-6794. In order to be a donor, you must be either A or O blood type, not being treated for high blood pressure, at least 18 years old, and have had no cancer for the past five years. The initial testing is very simple; you just call Children’s and tell Cindy Richards you would like to be tested for Karli Chadwick. You will be mailed a kit and can go to the local hospital for the blood work. Your blood work will be sent back, and in three weeks you will know whether or not you have passed the first screening process. Karli’s mom, Kelly, can be reached via e-mail at
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. Maybe you could be the donor Karli so desperately needs.
Last Updated on Sunday, 05 April 2009 16:01
Save 1 Person News Breaks in the Media Save Lives!
Monday, 13 July 2009 13:55
Lauren
 I wanted to let you know that you included some information in your Save 1 Person news break a while back for Mr. John Schoueten. He lives in NJ and has been in renal failure for two years. You included it as one of those Save 1 Person news breaks in the media. I contacted Mr. Schoueten because I matched some initial criteria for donating a kidney. We have been though the testing and found that I am a match for him. Our suregery is scheduled for February 21st. I will be flying to NJ and Mr. Schoueten and I will undergo the transplant. Since you originally put us in contact through a Save 1 Person news break, I wanted to let you know that your information really does work. You are helping to make a difference in people's lives. Please pray for the surgery and our recovery but more so that this transplant will work and that Mr. Schouten will get his life back. Thank you for starting Save 1 Person and broadcasting to the world the desperate needs of others. May you be blessed for what you do. Sincerely, Tami Brody, Oklahoma
Follow up: The operation was a great success. Mr. Schoueten today is alive and healthy several years later and works for the United States Army.
Last Updated on Sunday, 09 August 2009 16:58
Save 1 Person Mission
Monday, 26 January 2009 00:00
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Media can destroy or media can build and create.At Save 1 Person, we seek to harness the power of the media to save and to rebuild the lives of those in need of help one person at a time. How do we do this? Simple. The answer is in the power of numbers. The more people who are able to learn about a person in need through a variety of media outlets (TV, radio, Internet and print) the more likely somebody will be alerted who is able and willing to help. Imagine, for example, that Sally, a mother with five children, has Leukemia and needs to find a person suitable for a bone marrow transplant immediately or she will die within weeks. How is she more likely to get the help she receives? If the local newspaper in the Illinois town she lives in runs an article about her, only 30,000, 40,000 or even 50,000 people would be alerted to her need for a donor. But what if Sally's story reaches people living in cities throughout the U.S. and the world by appearing as a news break on television and radio networks in major media markets across the globe. Needless to say, the more people that are aware of Sally's plight, the more people are likely to get tested and the more likely Sally is to find a match. So far, matches initiated by Save 1 Person have come to the aid of people in a variety of situations: - Father of three received living kidney donor.
- Extended a man's life for over a year with stage 4 cancer.
- Hundreds of people have volunteered to be a bone marrow match for a teenager.
But these successes are only the beginning. The possibilities are endless with Save 1 Person's long-term strategy of having regular news breaks highlighting one person's need on media outlets worldwide. Imagine calling on doctors to find a cure for a new disease or raising money for a child in need of an organ transplant or finding a living kidney donor for a child dying. Why is one person highlighted? Because when you help one person to live what that person contributes to the world can change the course of history. One act of helping another can have ripple effects throughout the world. For instance, Stuart Zimmer, father of three, needed a living kidney donor to live. After sending out a Save 1 Person news break alert to the media, a complete stranger donated a kidney to save Stuart's life. Not only did Stuart get another chance at life, but his wife gave birth to another child a couple of years after the successful operation. Will you join our media campaign to save lives? Save 1 Person. Save The World. 
Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 February 2009 13:22
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