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Online Love Match Turns Out To Be Donor Match
By John Lauritsen, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A lot of us spent Valentine’s Day around people we care about. It was the same for a Sartell couple, but instead of having a nice dinner, they were in...
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Fresh Off Kidney Donation, Man Sets Sights On Triathlon
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Twin Cities man is coming back from surgery with his sights set on completing the LifeTime Minneapolis Triathlon. If all goes as planned on July 14, John Barker will cross the...
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Bethel Coach To Receive The Gift Of Life
ARDEN HILLS, Minn. (WCCO) – As a quarterback, Scott Kirchoff led his Hutchinson High School team to a state title. He took his winner’s mentality to Bethel, where he won consistently. “We had the...
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Coon Rapids Man Receives Life-Saving Transplant After WCCO Report
COON RAPIDS (WCCO) — A Minnesota father of three says his prayers were answered after WCCO shared his story over the summer. Bryan Weiss, 33, from Coon Rapids recently received the kidney transplant...
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After 47 Years, Minn. Woman Reunites & Saves Life Of Friend
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Many of us would do anything for a best friend, but one Minnesota woman owes her life to a friend who she hadn’t seen in 47 years. Just a few months ago, Sue Halverson was living...
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Would You Donate A Kidney To A Stranger?
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Would you donate your kidney to a stranger? A growing number of people are willing to do just that. A Mayo Clinic survey of more than 1,000 Americans finds that nearly half would...
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Mpls and St. Paul Fire, Police Officers Take Part In The Second Annual “Unite...
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20140301235445217AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Minneapolis and St. Paul police and firefighters are stepping into the ring and “duking it out” in the second...
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Cottage Grove Man Hopes Giant Kidney Cutout Saves His Life
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20140919182311973AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A Cottage Grove man hopes doing something “unusual” gets him the organ donation he so desperately needs. Jim...
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Football Team, Community Backs Jordan Brothers And Ill Mother
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20141010001952790AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Two brothers in Jordan are learning that the word “team” extends well beyond their fellow football players....
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Kidney Snowman Helps Get Cottage Grove Man Life-Saving Transplant
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150404193211433AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Cottage Grove man, who earned worldwide attention while waiting for a kidney transplant, has a new organ....
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Hanover Brothers’ Rare Disease Doesn’t Keep Spirits Down
http://media.minneapolis.cbslocal.com/CBSMIN_20150413234435643AA.mp4 MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It’s hockey night at the Walesch household in Hanover. And as usual the MVPs are 9-year-old Brett Walesch and...
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Update: Missing New Prague Man Is On Kidney Transplant List
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — New Prague police say that with each passing day it’s critical that a missing man is located due to his medical condition. Anthony James Slavik left his residence on July 18 and...
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Minnesota Mother, Undocumented Immigrant, In Need Of Kidney Transplant
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota mother of three is in need of a life-saving surgery. Doctors told Socorro Neri Vergara she had less than a year to live. That was two years ago, and every day since she...
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St. Paul School Raises Money For Student’s Mother In Need Of Kidney Transplant
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A St. Paul charter school is raising money for a life-saving kidney transplant for the mother of one of their students. Doctors told Socorro Neri-Vergara she will die without a...
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Kidney Exchange Program Links Friends From Minnesota, Georgia
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — If given the chance to save a life, most of us would do what they can to help. For Pastor Jeff Marian, that meant donating a kidney for his friend, Linda Nelson. That gesture would...
View ArticleNancy Carlson Talks Donating Kidney To Save Close Friend
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Whatever conceptions you have about organ donation may expand your view of what’s possible and what one person can do after listening to Nancy Nelson and Ellen DeFilippis. Nancy...
View ArticleMan Drops 42 Pounds In 3 Months To Donate Kidney To Brother
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Twin Cities man has no problem helping a brother out, especially when the person in need is his younger brother with a serious kidney disease. When he was in high school Jeff...
View ArticleMinnesota Woman’s Dual Kidney Transplant Surgery Gives Other Patients More...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A chance encounter at a business meeting has helped a Minnesota woman lead a much better life. WCCO shares how a kidney transplant sent a doctor at Mayo Clinic on a new mission to...
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