by Tracey Hulick | Jan 23, 2019 | Altruistic, Bobby's Story, Half Marathon, Marathon, Other Sports, Running
(This is Bobby’s third installment here on Kidney Donor Athletes. If you haven’t read the first two, click here!) Game time! Seems like I was on the bench forever. It seemed an eternity before it was going to be my turn to get called into the game. The...
by Tracey Hulick | Oct 24, 2018 | Directed Donation, IronMan, Marathon, Running, Ultra
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...
by Tracey Hulick | Oct 10, 2018 | Altruistic, Bobby's Story, Half Marathon, Marathon, Other Sports, Running
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. ...
by Tracey Hulick | Oct 3, 2018 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Running
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...
by Tracey Hulick | Sep 26, 2018 | Altruistic, Other Sports, Running, Ultra
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...
