by Tracey Hulick | May 21, 2025 | Running, Triathlon, Vegetarian or Vegan, Yoga
When my dad called to tell me that my stepmother had been diagnosed with kidney disease, it was during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time already marked by collective uncertainty, isolation, and fear. While she and I weren’t particularly close, I knew...
by Tracey Hulick | Jan 10, 2024 | IronMan, Triathlon, Ultra, Vegetarian or Vegan
I made an altruistic donation of one of my kidneys on the 10th July 2019. In fact, I got the idea to do it from my wife. She was keen to do it but failed one her preliminary tests. She’s subsequently retaken and passed the test but spends a lot of time now caring for...
by Tracey Hulick | Jul 25, 2023 | Cycling, Running, Ultra, Vegetarian or Vegan, Weight Lifting
My name is Zachary Sutton, and I am a living kidney donor, transplant nephrology physician assistant, transplant advocate, husband, Dad, and athlete. I donated a kidney as a physician assistant student to the transplant list in 2008, making me the first altruistic...
by Tracey Hulick | Sep 28, 2022 | Parent When Donated, Running, Vegetarian or Vegan, Yoga
My name is Maggie and I am a 45-year-old wife, mother of two, instructor, runner, yogi, and a live organ donor. Maggie on a cold, wet run before donating! I met my friend Phil in 1998, the summer before my senior year of college. At the time, I was his best friend’s...
by Tracey Hulick | Aug 17, 2022 | Running, Vegetarian or Vegan, Weight Lifting
My name is Mannie Zubia and I am a kidney donor. On February 29th, 2016 I donated my kidney to my mother. That decision came from the state I was seeing my mother in. Both of her kidneys were failing and then came the emergency dialysis. However, her body wasn’t...
by Tracey Hulick | Apr 14, 2022 | Half Marathon, Running, Vegetarian or Vegan
In the summer of 2012, my cousin Kim posted on Facebook that a friend of hers, Ace, needed a kidney transplant from someone with type O blood and she wasn’t eligible. I knew a little about kidney disease. My Grandpa Bud was on dialysis for the last couple of years of...
