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Happy 60th Birthday George!!!! 🎉
Celebrating 60 amazing years!! We cannot thank you enough for all the lives you have touched and made better just by being you. Here’s to many more. Enjoy your very special day. WE LOVE YOU! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Words cannot express how deeply saddened we are to learn of the passing of our board member Tom Maxwell. Tom, thank you so much for helping our kidney kids for so many years and your unwavering support of our kidney camp. You will be deeply missed and our heart goes out to you and your family. Rest In peace. You will never be forgotten. ❤️
Today is National Donate Life Blue & Green Day! We encourage you to share your pictures wearing blue and green to promote the importance of registering as an organ, eye and tissue donor to help save lives! Please join Donate Life of America and other organizations around the country to help honor donors, recipients, and their families and caregivers. Especially today more than ever do we need to show our support and encourage the gift of life. 💚💙💚💙
Happy Wednesday everybody! In honor and celebration of National Donate Life Month, we wanted to do something special today and spotlight this amazing family who spent months preparing and making care packages for kidney transplant patients. 💚💙💚💙
The care packages were successfully delivered to the Cleveland Clinic Weston Florida.
“We took such great pleasure in giving back to the community, making the care packages. I've worked with patients with renal disease for the past 14 years and they have taught me a very valuable lesson and appreciating the smallest things in life. They are some of the most humble people. It was such a wonderful feeling to give back. I was so excited at the moment that we delivered the care packages.
We just want the patients to know that we are, the world is connected and people care and looking forward to them at our second chance at life. Organ donation allows recipients to grow up and go to college live long enough to meet their grandchildren to go back to work and enjoy a fulfilling career fall in love and get married and start their own families. We hope their second chance at life is out of this world amazing!”
What a wonderful story and amazing family doing their part to give back to those in need of love and support.
Click here to learn how can you help and get involved!
Who’s ready for golf? Celebrating 14 YEARS of raising awareness about kidney disease and the importance of organ donation. We couldn’t help our kidney families without your support!
Please save the date — October 3-4, 2021 for the 14th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic. Follow us on social media or subscribe to our newsletter to find out more details.
We’re thrilled to share an exciting first-in-class, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal centering around glomerular diseases. Click here to read the first edition of the journal for free.
“Over the past several decades, glomerular diseases have catapulted to the forefront of a precision medicine revolution in nephrology. There has been an explosion of innovative clinical and discovery science research in this area, with advances in systems biology promising breakthroughs in understanding pathogeneses and providing new therapeutic paradigms.”
Read the interview with Sharon G. Adler & Cynthia C. Nast, the founding Editor in Chief and Deputy Editor of Glomerular Diseases and learn how the journal will be beneficial to the nephrology community.
Out today in LA WEEKLY for Comedian George Lopez, Good Food is No Joke!
“The native Angeleno’s recently launched successful food and beverage empire is seriously good, all comedy aside. When comedian George Lopez describes Benita Gutierrez, a factory worker and the tough maternal grandmother who raised him in the San Fernando Valley and helped mold his sense of humor, he says she was like a sour patch kid – a little mind blowing at the first bite, but the sweetness always set in soon after.”
In honor of World Kidney Day and National Kidney Month we partnered with Mindfulness Coach, Brenda Saraí Zuniga and Nikole Gallardo & Melody from @AKidneyForMelody to raise awareness about kidney disease and mental health.
Melody was born with Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome and received the gift of life in 2017 from an organ donor, that saved her life!
Join LIVE at 12pm PST for the conversation kidney health, organ donation, and positive coping skills!
March is National Kidney Month! This month many organizations, health professionals and communities come together for one purpose: raise awareness about kidney disease.
Your kidney can fail due to build up of waste in the body, damage to the kidneys, anemia as well as build up of fluid in the body. Symptoms can include anything from nausea and vomiting, blood in the urine, fatigue to swelling in the face, feet or hands. To determine if the symptoms you have are because of kidney failure, have your doctor perform these specific tests:
Urinalysis – check for protein, blood and white blood cells in the urine.
Blood tests – test creatinine and BUN, waste products that healthy kidneys remove from the bloodstream.
Make a contribution today and help us raise awareness about the importance of maintaining healthy kidneys!
According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), this year’s focus is take charge of your health and learn more about what factors go into maintaining healthy kidneys. Here are seven fantastic suggestions to follow in order to maintain your kidney health:
Meet regularly with your health care team. Staying connected with your doctor, whether in-person or using telehealth via phone or computer, can help you maintain your kidney health.
Manage blood pressure and monitor blood glucose levels. Work with your health care team to develop a plan to meet your blood pressure goals and check your blood glucose level regularly if you have diabetes.
Take medicine as prescribed and avoid NSAIDs like ibuprofen and naproxen. Your pharmacist and doctor need to know about all the medicines you take.
Aim for a healthy weight. Create a healthy meal plan and consider working with your doctor to develop a weight-loss plan that works for you.
Reduce stress and make physical activity part of your routine. Consider healthy stress-reducing activities and get at least 30 minutes or more of physical activity each day.
Make time for sleep. Aim for 7 to 8 hours of sleep per night.
Quit smoking. If you smoke, take steps to quit.
To learn more visit: NIDDK
