by Tracey Hulick | May 13, 2020 | Altruistic, Other Sports
Before my kidney donation, I was quite active. I was consistently running 2 to 3 miles per day and engaging in strength training, which has been a passion of mine since I was in college. I also participated in the BolderBoulder 10k every year. Actually, one of...
by Tracey Hulick | Jan 29, 2020 | Altruistic, Directed Donation, Half Marathon, Marathon, Other Sports, Parent When Donated, Running
I donated my left kidney to a complete stranger on October 3rd, 2017. I saw an ad on Facebook and I knew I was meant to be her donor. I answered the ad Memorial Day Weekend of 2017 and was approved by August! I have never thought of myself as an athlete before surgery...
by Tracey Hulick | Jan 8, 2020 | Directed Donation, Other Sports, Vegetarian or Vegan
My name is Emily, and my first exposure to living organ donation was in high school. I was friends with a young man who found himself in liver failure at the age of seventeen and our pastor’s wife donated a lobe of her liver to him, saving his life. Now, fifteen years...
by Tracey Hulick | Jan 2, 2019 | Crossfit, Other Sports, Transplant Chain
My mom became sick in the spring of 2015. Although it is still difficult to say what exactly caused her kidneys to fail, she had the perfect storm of events occur to cause her to become septic in the ICU and in end-stage renal failure. Once my mom started doing better...
