by Tracey Hulick | Apr 10, 2019 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Running, Ultra
I started avid long-distance running back in 2011. I was always athletic growing up, but I had largely stopped exercising while I was in medical school. I finally reconnected with my first love, running, with my first half marathon in April 2011. I...
by Tracey Hulick | Feb 6, 2019 | Directed Donation, Other Sports
My oldest sister went into kidney failure due to medications she was taking to control her blood pressure. After being on dialysis for years they decided that she would need a transplant. She was scared to ask me to even check to see if I could be a donor but of...
by Tracey Hulick | Jan 21, 2019 | News and Updates
Last week I was having snacks and a bourbon on the rocks with a couple of friends while in Madison for work. I was catching up with them when we got on the topic of my kidney donation and the subsequent birth of Kidney Donor Athletes. And then the question came....
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...