Celebrating Organ Transplant Longevity

George Franklin is President of the Quarter Century Club

Kidney      33 Years

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Age: 54    Place of Residence: D.C.

Transplanted Organ(s):Kidney   Date of Transplant: 11/5/1975  Transplanted at: George Washington University Hospital in DC 

Donor: Deceased    Contact with Donor Family? Sadly, No. I’ve never been able to
find out who my donor was. I believe it came from a female killed in a car accident in Tennessee.

Date Celebrated: I do celebrate the Anniversary of the transplant surgery. I Named the Transplanted Organ “Re-Tread.

Special First or Significant Event in My Transplant Life: I was one of 4 Americans to he invited to go to the First Transplant Games, in Southsea, England, in 1978! Also, perhaps. a current Club member and I started what was considered the first transplant club here in DC, in 1976 called the G.R.A.F.T. Club (Gods Renal Army for transplants). Our Doctors called it the Grateful Recipients After Finding Transplants.

How Transplant Has Affected  My Life: I think its greatest impact has been to have extended my life another 29 years! I was 21 I when I received the Gift of Life and now I‘m 50!
I’ve been able to see my beloved Mother reach the age of 73 this past May!
I’ve been allowed to be alive to see my beloved Grand Mother reach the age of 93 before being called home a few years ago.
I’ve been allowed to be alive long enough to have accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior.
I’ve been allowed to be alive to see my son grow to reach the age of 24... and to see my first Grand Daughter come into being!
Though I didn’t have a relationship with my father till I was 18, He lived
another 22 years after our re-uniting, and those years were enhanced by the
freedoms transplantation gave me to travel, unrestricted, to visit him.

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50th birthday	George Franklin Wearing Quarter Century Club jersey	Candle Light Vigil REV. DOWNS (HEART TX), CHRISTINE WILSON (KP TX) AND ME AT M.O.T.T.E.P. CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL	Dr Geelhoed 1975 MY TRANSPLANT SURGEON DR. GLEN W. GEELHOED	24 Years 1999 RECEIVING 24 YEARS CERTIFICATE FROM M.O.T.T.E.P. PRESENTED BY MARY GORDON AND CHRISTINE WILSON (KPTX)
Dr. Kramer MY NEPHROLOGIST OF 1975 FOR 10 YEARS DR. NORMAN KRAMER AT SURGICAL CONVENTION	Dr. Callender ME AND DR CLIVE CALLENDER, OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AT A M.O.T.T.E.P EVENT	Friends TWO DEAR FRIENDS ANA SZULTA (KP) CHRISTINE WILSON (KP)	Baby Joshua, my grandson

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