by Tracey Hulick | Feb 27, 2019 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Running
On December 12, 2018, I donated a kidney to a stranger…now, not a stranger as we met the week prior to surgery. (Here is a link to the news story that covered the initial meeting!) My journey began almost a year ago with the interest in becoming a living donor when I...
by Tracey Hulick | Feb 13, 2019 | Directed Donation, Marathon, Running, Triathlon, Ultra
A Canadian marathoner and a Texan cowboy walk into a bar. Nope. There’s nowhere easy to start this story, so let’s just start at the beginning. Some of my favourite early memories are running on a sun-dappled trail in Northern Ontario, dodging roots and rocks, little...
by Tracey Hulick | Dec 5, 2018 | Aged 60 and Over, Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Running, Ultra
I’m a feisty 63 year- old, and I adore my four adult children and three young grandchildren. I also teach high school in Baltimore, Md. Many years ago, when I was a substitute teacher, I taught a young boy who had some medical issues. At the time I didn’t...
by Tracey Hulick | Nov 7, 2018 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Other Sports, Running
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...
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...
