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A Collaborative Transplant and Weight Loss Surgery at RWJUH

I feel like a new different person.
When Gina Bergstrom woke in February 2019 feeling unable to breathe fully or walk more than a few feet, she knew her kidneys ...
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Altruistic Donor Starts Life-saving Chain of Kidney Donations

Her donation was the start of a chain of kidney donations the led to three patients receiving life-saving kidney donations.
Jane Ehlers was first introduced to the idea of living donor kidney donation while in nursing school at Rutgers University. A ...
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Dillon’s Story: The Life-Changing Impact of a Kidney Transplant

“Don’t let hopelessness consume you. It can happen anytime. The seventh time I got a call, it was a miracle match.”
Post-kidney transplant, Dillon Devlin found his world transformed. Back in Action After a Double Transplant Dillon Devlin, 29, ...
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Timothy’s Story: The Life-Changing Impact of a Kidney Transplant

“It’s a wonderful thing. I have so much more energy now, and I have so much more time to myself."
Post-kidney transplant, Timothy Collins found his world transformed. Loving Life with a New Kidney Timothy Collins, 60, of ...
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Tim’s Journey: From Dialysis to Loving Life with a New Kidney

“I have so much more energy now, and I have so much more time to myself since I don’t have to plan my days around getting to a machine at a certain time.”
Timothy Collins, 60, of Westfield, was diagnosed in 1996 with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), which causes kidneys to enlarge ...
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New Heart, New Kidney, New Life

“When I first got out of the hospital, I couldn’t even lift a gallon of milk. Now, I’m walking, doing yoga and playing in my band”
Thanks to an anonymous donor, Douglas Delahanty received two new organs—a heart and a kidney—one year ago at Newark Beth Israel ...
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Rosemarie’s Transplant Story

“If I can get a message to anyone needing a kidney, I would tell them make sure you go to the Transplant Center that is the best. I would tell them to go to Saint Barnabas!”
The following is a story written by Rosemarie about her experience with the Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division at Saint ...
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Leslie’s Living Donation Story

On May 16, 2018, I donated a kidney through the Living Donor Institute at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.
“On May 16, 2018, I donated a kidney through the Living Donor Institute at Saint Barnabas Medical Center . My recipient was a ...
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Kidney Donor Gives the Gift of Life

“Dawn and I call each other sisters because I have part of her body”
In December 2018, Hyewoon “Kate” Lim started kidney dialysis, a treatment that required her to hook herself up to a machine ...
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