Kidney for David Gonzalez

03/20/2025

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03/14/2025

Happy World Kidney Day!! 💚

03/07/2025

Happy Kidney Awareness Month 💚

12/02/2024

Today was so special!! Happy 1 year kidneyversary to David and Christopher! 1 year ago today Chris gave the most incredible gift to David…a kidney!!!! Today our families came together once again to celebrate this milestone! Our family will live in gratitude for Chris’s sacrifice and inconceivable generosity forever! We love you Chris!! ♥️

09/21/2024

Day +295: Yesterday was chemo day and David was happy to have a visitor along with him! Love ya son! ♥️ Just a quick little update…we had a visit with his transplant nephrologist this week and in her words she said, “Dave, you received a rockstar kidney!” She said to him that he is such an unusual case having had multiple myeloma and he is doing even better than most kidney transplant patients at this stage. She and his team are extremely impressed with the progress! It doesn’t get much better than that! We are so thankful to Jesus! 🥹 Jesus is the giver of all life. Without Him we would not be here today. He is the creator. He made me, He saved me and He sustains me! 🙌🏻 Please always keep our dearest friend and donor lifted up in your prayers. He deserves all the good things in life! Christopher you are a rockstar and such a blessing! ♥️

05/24/2024

The One Kidney Club! Currently they are in their transplant warrior era! 💚 We are just 1 week out from their 6 month post kidney transplant! Blessed to have celebrated this milestone yesterday evening over dinner and laughs with both guys! Seems just like yesterday we were in the hospital preparing for surgery, but here we are with 6 months passed with a brand new kidney and a lifetime of gratitude! It takes a big heart to donate an organ to a friend, let alone a stranger! Be like Chris! Become an organ donor and share your spare! ♥️

03/14/2024

Happy World Kidney Day!!!

01/03/2024

https://www.fox8live.com/2023/12/21/perfect-match-pastors-prayer-answered-with-life-saving-kidney-transplant/

A St. Bernard pastor's battle with cancer leads to a life-saving kidney transplant from a compassionate stranger, forging a powerful tale of faith and friendship.

12/14/2023

Excited to share what the Lord did for David and to shed light on living donors like Chris who gave David life by donating his kidney with Fox 8 News today! Be on the lookout 👀 for this special coming soon!

12/06/2023

Let me tell you a story...My husband, David was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in August 2020. They found this rare cancer of the blood because his kidneys went into complete failure. Immediately he was placed on dialysis and we didn't know if he would make it out alive in the early stages. After extensive chemotherapy followed by a Stem Cell Transplant; David was cancer free, but sadly his kidneys never came back. We were finally placed on the kidney transplant list in August 2022. We were told finding a living donor was best because currently the wait time on the list for a deceased donor's kidney was 7-10 years. I went to work and was determined to get the word out to find my husband a living donor. Let's jump ahead to August 2023. We just made a year on the list and still no match that was approved by the transplant board. I continued to share his story on social media. In early September 2023 we learned that we had a match! Now let me introduce you to Christopher, David's donor...his superhero! Chris and David did not know one another. David's grandmother owned and operated a daycare in the 80's where Chris was one of the infant's there. Small world right?! In the summer of 2023 Chris saw my post pleading with the public for a living donor shared through mutual friends. After seeing it a few times he decided he would get tested. He shared this news only with his sisters. See their father passed away of cancer a few years earlier and he felt a call that this was his purpose. He felt this would honor his father in all that he had endured with Esophageal Cancer. It turned out that Chris was a match and he continued to keep this secret until he was cleared by the transplant team that he could donate his kidney and still lead a healthy normal life himself and on September 8th there was a knock on our door. Chris and his family came to our home to tell David he was his match! By the way, Chris happens to live in the same subdivision in Meraux, Louisiana as we do. Literally just two streets over! Talk about neighbors helping neighbors! Our lives changed forever on December 1, 2023 when Chris performed the most selfless act by donating his kidney to a complete stranger who no longer was a stranger at all but a brother for life. We could never repay him for this amazing gift of life that he gave David, but we will spend a lifetime thanking him and reminding him of how much he means to our family. I believe his late father, Mr. Gary Stall would be so proud of him. I pray this story brings you encouragement to never give up. God is bigger than any trial or circumstance you may be facing. The Lord already had the plans laid out for both David and Chris over 40 years ago when Chris was just an infant at David's grandmother's daycare. I hope this story brings awareness to living donors and how you can save lives while you're still here on earth. You can be a hero just like Chris! Just so you know the rest of the story, the kidney transplant was a success! Both men are recovering from surgery currently, and that brand new kidney is working beautifully for David! He doesn't need dialysis anymore and his levels have returned to normal. We won't say this is the end of the story because this story is just beginning! Remember it only takes one! Donate your spare!

11/08/2023

We are counting down the days until kidney transplant day and now we are just 20 days away! The most incredible, selfless, loving, kind, caring, compassionate, thoughtful, gentle, good-hearted, courageous, generous , tender-hearted human is giving my husband another chance at life! Thank you Chris! No words could ever be enough! Let me encourage others on a transplant list to get the word out and share your story. You just never know who might be listening! This is really happening y’all!! 🤯🙏🏻♥️