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Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Angie!
My name is Angie and I am proud to be a living kidney donor! I have been blessed with great health and a drive to take care of my body through staying physically active and eating right. I love to work out and walk/run every day, it has been a part of my day for 25+...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Bob!
I was seventy-two and a half years old when I donated my left kidney to a recipient who I did not know at the time of the donation. I live on Long Island in New York. The recipient, interestingly, was seventy-five years old when he received my kidney. While living...
Meet Kidney Donor athlete, Grace!
My name is Grace Sims, and I am an active Colorado native. I love to be outside and love the mountains. I run (road and trail), snowboard, ski, hike, bike (mountain + gravel). I have a successful career and am working as a Vice President of Supply Chain. I...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Mike!
My name is Mike Ramsey. I am 51 yrs old from the great state of Wisconsin, and I donated my left kidney on September 13,2023. I had the honor of giving the gift of a better life to my wife. She had PKD which progressed to kind failure in 2020, at that point she...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Liza!
I’m a pescatarian, asthmatic retired educator with adult children. Although I’ve always been active, I don’t tend to think of myself as an “athlete” since I don’t like to compete. The back of the pack is the place for me. My running resume includes a ton of 5 &...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Karl!
My name is Karl Ludwig, and I donated my left kidney to my college instructor (now good friend and brother) Aaron on September 1, 2023. I am an avid rock climber, but my love for being active, especially in the outdoors, extends in many directions. Currently I like to...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Cara!
My name is Cara Syth and I am a runner and kidney donor from Menomonie, Wisconsin. I didn’t start running until later in life. At age 35, I had low back pain and a deconditioned core. I wasn’t feeling great and was not very physically active. I decided that something...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Joan!
I’m 69 years old. When I was 55 I donated a kidney to a man who, at the start of things, was a stranger to me.In 1950s and 60s, athletic pursuits for girls were uncommon, or even nonexistent. That void included me. By the time I was twenty-five years old and...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Molly!
My name is Molly Von Lindern and I’m 29 years old. On February 23rd, 2023, I donated my left kidney to my mom. It was a laparoscopic robotic surgery done by the amazing transplant team at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. This...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, James!
I’m James Carder from Cumming, GA and I became a living kidney donor on 9/29/23 at 62 years of age. I donated my left kidney via direct donation to my college friend and fraternity brother Dan. Dan and I have known each other since 1980 and were both members of Sigma...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Brian!
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...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Nicholas!
Charlie needed a kidney, so I gave her one of mine. There is much more to our kidney journey, but that was my singular mindset in becoming a living kidney donor for my daughter. In 2015, Charlie was 5-years-old when she was diagnosed with focal segmental...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Karen!
On May 5, 2019, my only child died in a tragic accident at home. At 14 years old, he wasecstatic that he had grown slightly taller than his dad and was close to finishing eighth grade.After all, he had plans. Just a week prior, he had asked if we could go to the lake...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Zachary!
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...
Meet Kidney Donor Athlete, Fiona!
Hello from the Green Mountain State! My name is Fiona Connors. I am an athlete (hiker, gravel rider and yogi), a French teacher, a proud resident of Burlington, VT and as of July 26th 2022, a living kidney donor. At thirty years old, I donated my left kidney to...