Kidney treatments

SAN DIEGO -- A 23-year-old Iraq war veteran received a kidney this month in San Diego from a fellow Marine left brain-dead after a training accident, squeezing what is normally a five-year wait into two days.

The fast-paced transplant underscores the deep bond among service members and their families, according to friends and relatives. As Sgt. Jacob Chadwick prepared to leave the hospital Aug. 11, hundreds of police cars and motorcycles escorted 2nd Lt. Patrick Wayland's casket through his hometown of Midland, Texas, where thousands lined the streets waving American flags.

COLLINS, Ohio -- Randy Wright has talked to almost everyone he meets about the demand for organ donors -- and his need for a kidney.

So when a Walmart clerk heard his plight and suggested the 45-year-old Huron County man join Facebook, Wright, with some help, began an awareness campaign on social media.

No one in Wright's family is a suitable donor, but at least two of his brothers, who have a different blood type than Wright, have agreed to donate to others as part of the paired donation concept. Wright, a father of three who has type O blood, is on the waiting list for a kidney at the University of Toledo Medical Center, which has been a pioneer in "chain donations."

PEARL, Miss. -- The woman released from a Mississippi prison on the condition she donate a kidney to her sister says she would have gone through the procedure even if she hadn't been released from prison.