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New friendship cemented with kidney donation

Melissa Blevins, administrator for the Transplant Center and Living Donor Programs at Mayo Clinic's campus in Arizona, knew that one day she'd be an organ donor. Her epiphany occurred 15 years ago. She was working as nurse transplant coordinator and, ...
A Marathon of Another Kind: Kidney Dialysis for 13 Months

It was the summer of 2008, and Nichole Rushton was primed and ready to run 26.2 miles – a marathon – something she had accomplished with relative ease twice before. At age 28, she well could have invented the concept of ...