 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. You may have a favorite superhero, but here's a story about a real hero, a true lifesaver and how you too can become one as well. 2019, I was diagnosed with stage four kidney disease, got sick to where the dialysis was no longer working, was having a lot of health complications and was in desperate need of a kidney donor. The doctors had given him only six months to live and after a long hard battle, little did Jonathan know his saving grace was right around the corner. Within approximately a week of me being in the hospital, getting really sick, all this happened and I got a call from the UK that they received a match and not only did they get a donor match, they got a perfect match. The donor had been a friend of the Onis for about five years, but she wasn't finished at just being a friend and a donor. I hadn't been able to find the job for several years and she actually invited me to do an interview for her working at her practice, Sanford Hope Counseling and so now she is currently my boss so we are now even closer than what we were before and we're best of friends. Jonathan has a whole new look on life. It was always in the back of my mind the very worst that could happen. I started out with a lot of faith, a lot of prayers because I know that God is able to heal. I knew that God is able to give me a kidney. Ten months after the transplant, he was able to see his daughters be adopted. Before the kidney transplant, my daughters were in foster care and they were not ours and I prayed, Lord, please help me live to see my kids be adopted and on September the 22nd of 2022, we adopted our precious babies, Addie and Ariana. His wife, Jessica, states that this transplant not only gave me my husband back but gave our kids their father. I have received life. When they say donate life, that's exactly what they mean is you're giving someone another chance to be a better version of themselves and I'm here today to talk to you and hopefully lead somebody today to be that person, be what my daughter was to me and give someone else a second chance. So every 10 minutes, a name is added to the wait list. You know, that can be men, women or children and currently in the state of Kentucky, we have 1,000 individuals who are waiting on transplants. 81% of those people are waiting on life-saving kidney transplants. So it is so important for people to register as organ donors to give hope to those who are waiting and to, you know, hopefully become life-saving individuals to those who are in need. For more information about becoming a donor, visit registerme.org. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Ethan Miller.