by Tracey Hulick | Jul 27, 2022 | Crossfit, Hiking, Running, Soccer, Yoga
My kidney donation story starts with my grandmother. By the nature of polycystic kidney disease, it must have started with my great-grandfather before that, but he died when she was still a small child, so we don’t know how it might have affected him. My...
by Tracey Hulick | Jul 13, 2022 | Cycling, IronMan, Marathon, Parent When Donated, Running, Triathlon
My name is Tom O’Driscoll and I am a double organ donor (kidney/liver). On February 18, 2022, I donated a piece of my liver to a dying young man in a surgery performed at USC – Keck Medical Center in Los Angeles. How did I come to do this? To answer this,...
by Tracey Hulick | Jun 29, 2022 | Altruistic, Liver Donor, Running
My name is Jody Becker Wilkey, I am a 58-year-old native of Central Illinois, and I’d like to share my organ donation stories. My first story begins in June 1983, when I was a 20-year-old college student majoring in the Teaching of Spanish at the University of...
by Tracey Hulick | Jun 22, 2022 | Altruistic, Other Sports, Running
The kidney donor part A few years ago, I heard a story on NPR about kidney donation. It was the first time I heard about “the list”: The enormous list of people, tens of thousands, in desperate need of a kidney, the dozen or so people who die waiting every day, and...
by Tracey Hulick | Jun 15, 2022 | Other Sports, Post-Donation Pregnancy, Running
Kidney disease, specifically interstitial nephritis is something my family is all too familiar with. My grandfather passed away in his 50’s and at the time was told he was too old for dialysis. In 1995, my uncle received a kidney transplant, after being on...
by Tracey Hulick | Jun 9, 2022 | Cycling, Parent When Donated, Running, Triathlon, Uncategorized
As part of my job, I am fortunate to have a platform to communicate to our entire company. The following is an excerpt from the message I sent on Friday, July 31, 2020 as part of our weekly internal e-newsletter: I stared across the hall and into my bedroom, not...
