The OTS membership for 2020 runs from January 1, 2020, through December 31. In the next few weeks, you will receive a renewal form in the mail for the 2021 OTS membership.

I guess I always believed that I would attempt to meet my donor family if I was lucky enough. One day in late October of 2017, I was extremely blessed to receive a heart transplant.

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Today, kidney transplant recipients must take a lifelong, daily regimen of anti-rejection drugs.

Pete Cashman received a liver transplant on March 14, 2010 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Here is the story of his meeting with his donor family in his own words:

The following article was written by Virginia Davis, a longtime OTS member and past OTS newsletter editor. This was printed in the Chicago Tribune as a letter to the editor on August 8, 2020.

In the July/August issue of the OTS newsletter we printed an article titled: The 30 Year History of OTS. After the article was printed we learned of one incorrect statement about the OTS founders. We want to print the correct information in this OTS newsletter.

It is very thoughtful of you to want to write to the family who made your transplant or your family member’s transplant possible. Many families say that a card or personal note from the recipient provides them with comfort in. knowing that their loved one’s gift made a difference.