by Tracey Hulick | Aug 17, 2022 | Running, Vegetarian or Vegan, Weight Lifting
My name is Mannie Zubia and I am a kidney donor. On February 29th, 2016 I donated my kidney to my mother. That decision came from the state I was seeing my mother in. Both of her kidneys were failing and then came the emergency dialysis. However, her body wasn’t...
by Tracey Hulick | Aug 10, 2022 | Hiking, Marathon, Running
I had never known anyone who had donated an organ and probably had never considered doing this until a friend let it be known that he needed a kidney and was about to start dialysis. I thought, “I can do that!”. We had moved out of state many years ago but...
by Tracey Hulick | Jul 27, 2022 | Crossfit, Hiking, Running, Soccer, Yoga
My kidney donation story starts with my grandmother. By the nature of polycystic kidney disease, it must have started with my great-grandfather before that, but he died when she was still a small child, so we don’t know how it might have affected him. My...
by Tracey Hulick | Jul 13, 2022 | Cycling, IronMan, Marathon, Parent When Donated, Running, Triathlon
My name is Tom O’Driscoll and I am a double organ donor (kidney/liver). On February 18, 2022, I donated a piece of my liver to a dying young man in a surgery performed at USC – Keck Medical Center in Los Angeles. How did I come to do this? To answer this,...
by Tracey Hulick | Jul 6, 2022 | Other Sports, Weight Lifting
Saving Mom My name is Jesse Soto and I am from Midland Texas, a small town out in West Texas. Home of not much more than a large oil and gas industry. Growing up as a young man I would often see my mother spend many painful days and nights in the hospital for what...
