Phillies fan still awaiting kidney transplant after 19 donors and six billboards (includes video story)

Every year thousands of people add their names to organ donor lists hoping for a chance at a better life. One man north of Philadelphia needs all the help he can get. 

Phillies fan Aj Tantala has been awaiting a new kidney since he was 2-years-old, due to something called posterior urethral valve syndrome. 

“For the first 22 years of my life I was just, I was ignoring it,” Tantala said. 

Nineteen potential donors and six billboards later, he is still waiting for a donor match to make his dreams of living a normal life become reality. 

Dylan Pezet is a student at Florida International University studying Digital Communications and Broadcast Media. He joined Caplin News in the Spring of 2024 in hopes of improving his TV-production craft so that after graduation he may be able to get a job with the NHRA as a track reporter/announcer.