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When Subbu Venkat, 56, an engineering manager in Houston and a seasoned marathoner, learned in 2013 that a close family member needed an immediate kidney transplant due to an autoimmune condition, he wanted to do everything he could to support them. After doing some initial research and consulting with his relative’s medical team, he decided he was willing to make the ultimate act of humanity and compassion and became his relative’s living kidney donor in September 2014.
Mary Rice-Boothe’s husband, Marki Boothe, was diagnosed with kidney failure in 2019, and she navigated hurdles within the healthcare system for over a year before he was able to receive a transplant. Rice-Boothe, 45, who is also a runner, wasn’t a match for Marki, but she participated in a living donor exchange to help her husband get a much-needed kidney.
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National Donate Life Month (NDLM), an observance to focus national attention on the need and importance of organ, eye and tissue donation. National Donate Life Month is about the importance of registering your decision to be a donor, and honoring deceased and living donors - recognizing that the generosity of donors makes saving lives through transplantation possible.
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National Donate Life Month (NDLM) focuses attention on the need and importance of organ, eye and tissue donation.