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Meet FUTURE Kidney Donor Athlete, Janelle!
I can still remember the smell of the burning rubber on the track when winter turned to spring, the feeling of my lungs gasping for air at the end of interval training day, and even the burning pain I felt in my legs after finishing a 400m race. High school was only a...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Jenn!
I wasn’t an athlete all my life: I couldn’t finish the mile during the fitness test in high school. But in my senior year of high school, I joined the dance team and decided that I liked fitness if I did it my way. I also rowed during my senior year and started my...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Cody!
My story starts way back in the “good ole days”, the summer of 1990 (Or I’m assuming it was the “good ole days”. I was about to be born so I have no clue.). A wonderful young couple was living the good life. They had been married for ten years, they lived on a...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Kent!
Kent’s Donation Journey, the story of an everyday athlete! Written by Ken on October 30, 2018 I was a non-directed donor on September 11, 2018. And ironically, or not, it went to a 60-70-year-old white male in New York City. His operation took place at one of...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Charlotte!
Life as a donor My name is Charlotte, I am 37 years old. I am a marathoner, an ultramarathoner, ironman and kidney donor. In 2015 we found out that my brother had end-stage kidney disease and was started on renal replacement therapy. His life changed in an...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Eric!
I donated a kidney to my sister Pam on December 14th, 2017. It’s been a long journey for her as she was one of the first liver transplant recipients at University Hospital in Denver in 1990. This was also the year I ran my first ultramarathon, a 35-mile trail race in...
Tracey’s Race Report – Bear Chase 50 Miler
Race morning was cold. 37 degrees to be exact. As Spence and I sat in the car before the start, watching the sunlight start to peek out over the horizon, I debated wearing a light jacket (I brought my Patagonia Houdini) or a set of sleeves. That was my only indecision...
Bobby’s Journey – Athlete Donating on January 2, 2019
It’s August 1985. I’ve just graduated from high school and have headed off to college at Catholic University in Washington, DC. Homesick, immature and not at all sure where life is headed, I dive full-on into my freshman year of college soccer. ...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete Heather!
We have always joked that I was my Dad’s favorite because I was the only one to have his brown eyes. As he began to face different medical concerns, the joke changed to me being the one giving him a kidney. Around the end of 2016, my family realized that these jokes...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete Quinn!
August 29, 2012, I actually did it. A non-directed kidney donation. All I knew at the time of the surgery was my left kidney would be removed at the University of Washington Medical Center, placed in a lunch box, and driven roughly 2 miles up the road to Seattle...