From NBC’s Today show, here’s an inspirational story of a Mayo Clinic patient with kidney disease who received a life-saving transplant after her daughter made connections with a volunteer kidney donor through social media:
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Do you know of other patients who have been helped directly like this through social media? If so, we’d love to have you tell their stories in the comments below.
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Well, if you didn’t believe in the power of social media/networking, incredible stories like this keep popping up and show the power of the internet to open up the world. Obviously, there is good and bad that comes from this, but this is one of the most amazing stories I have seen. In a world that seems ever dominated by negative media, it is nice to see the positive stories like this one. I would have thought this would have seen more press. If you haven’t watched the video link above, it is well worth the time to hear this incredible story.
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