by Tracey Hulick | Jun 10, 2020 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Other Sports, Running, Ultra
I’ve always been that girl who played just about every sport that was available to her. When I was little my days were spent on either softball fields or volleyball courts. As I got older, I turned to activities like karate, pilates, and running. I am now the owner of...
by Tracey Hulick | May 20, 2020 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Other Sports, Running
I’m not a very superstitious person or one that really believes everything happens for a reason, but every once in a while it just feels like things are falling into the place they belong. One evening around Halloween in 2018, my husband and I were living with my...
by Tracey Hulick | Apr 29, 2020 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Running, Ultra
It all began after a run. I often “ran” into my aunt and uncle because they lived above me in our Chicago apartment building, but this time I wasn’t greeted with a very happy, “hello”. Panting and gassed, I tried my best to gather the information they relayed to...
by Tracey Hulick | Apr 15, 2020 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Running
I never thought much about kidneys or organ donation. In fact, It was completely off my radar until we realized that my husband might have a gene mutation that inevitably leads to kidney disease. Nate, my husband, had two uncles with kidney disease who received...
by Tracey Hulick | Mar 11, 2020 | Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Other Sports, Running
I honestly knew nothing about living kidney donation when I started this journey other than it was something that people did for their loved ones (I had no idea people donated altruistically either!). This all changed when, in February of 2018, my mom called to tell...