by Tracey Hulick | Aug 24, 2022 | Altruistic, Cycling, Other Sports, Running
My name is Victoria Threadgould and in February 2022, my left kidney went from Austin, TX to New York City, where it was transplanted into someone I didn’t know! My kidney journey started in January 2021 while I was hiking with my husband in a Texas State Park. I said...
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 | Jun 22, 2022 | Altruistic, Other Sports, Running
The kidney donor part A few years ago, I heard a story on NPR about kidney donation. It was the first time I heard about “the list”: The enormous list of people, tens of thousands, in desperate need of a kidney, the dozen or so people who die waiting every day, and...
by Tracey Hulick | Jun 15, 2022 | Other Sports, Post-Donation Pregnancy, Running
Kidney disease, specifically interstitial nephritis is something my family is all too familiar with. My grandfather passed away in his 50’s and at the time was told he was too old for dialysis. In 1995, my uncle received a kidney transplant, after being on...
