A fundraiser dubbed Rock-Beat is planned for Jan. 9 at Hines Ward’s South Side 86 Bar and Grill to help defray the cost of a transplant and other expenses for the family of Finleyville’s Don Wagner.

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When David Glassey of Ventura watches the Rose Parade today, he will be cheering for the man who helped save his life nearly four years ago.Glassey, who had pulmonary fibrosis, received a double lung transplant in February 2006 — just seven months after Mario Pinedo first signed up to be an organ donor while renewing his driver’s license. The 39-year-old National City resident died of a massive …

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A rare medical condition had Kristin Molini on the brink of death until a rare five-organ transplant saved her life.

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A young woman from Gravesend, Brooklyn is proof miracles do happen. Kristin Molini survived a rare and uniquely complicated transplant operation that replaced five of her internal organs. Making dinner with her family used to be an ordeal. For seven long years she endured excruciating stomach pain, could not eat and did not know what was wrong with her.

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The Daily News ends the year on an uplifting note, putting a young Brooklyn woman who survived a rare five-organ transplant surgery on the cover this morning. 22-year-old Kristin Molini is eating real food for the first time since 2005, when her rare medical condition, intestinal dysmotility, intensified. The malady paralyzed her digestive organs, and she had to rely on an IV feed that destroyed …

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Translated by Angelica Perrini

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