Currently, in Iowa, about 700 people are waiting for the life-saving gift of an organ donation.

During this National Donate Life Month, one man shares his story of accepting multiple donations, and now waiting for another.

Greg Harvey has been waiting for more than a year now for a new Kidney.

The Iowa Donor network says that wait can be as long as three years.

Now Greg and his wife explain how difficult it is to wait.

Greg and Linda Harvey are from West Des Moines, but they're no strangers to Eastern Iowa.

In the early 1990's, Greg found out he had a chronic liver disease.

His only treatment option was a liver transplant, but his medication from that led to kidney failure.

That's when his wife found out she was a match and donated a kidney 14 years ago.

Then in 2016, doctors told Greg he needed another liver and he received his third transplant at the University of Iowa.

"Everything was going great, I was able to return back to work full time and enjoy life and then my kidneys, my transplanted kidney that my wife gave me now it had failed," says Greg.

Now at 59-years-old, he needs another new kidney, but life on the waiting list hasn't been easy.

Greg is required to go on dialysis three times a week and it's taken a toll on his life and his family, including seeing his newborn grandson.

"I'm hoping to be able to take a trip over to Chicago and visit him soon and doing that you have to plan out to contact a dialysis center in the area," says Greg.

Both Greg and his wife Linda know the trip isn't an easy one to make.

"It's mentally exhausting for him to think I have to go, do I need to take some extra medicine, do I need to call and let them know that I'm leaving town, what if I get over there and I get ill, what am I supposed to do," says Linda.

Now Linda and Greg are hoping for another miracle, and are just waiting for the call that doctors found another donor.

"It would just change our world, it would change our children's world, it's been a long time since we have felt true joy in our home," says Linda.

Greg and Linda tell us all three of their sons wanted to donate a kidney, but unfortunately, they weren't a match.

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