I want to thank you all for your contributions to my Team Kidney Half Marathon fund raiser. Some of you are close friends & family, while others I haven't seen in years. Regardless, your support is much appreciated and your donations are going to a great organization. As a result of your generosity, we more than doubled my fund raising goal with a grand total of $2,131! The race also a success, and I finished up with a time 1:57.
Thank you again for supporting me and the Nation Kidney Foundation.
On July 27, I will be lacing 'em up for the SF Half Marathon behalf of the National Kidney Foundation. I'm joining Team Kidney in support of my mother, Kathy, who has been on the receiving end of two kidney transplants. She underwent her first transplant operation fifteen years ago after a mysterious virus caused her kidney function to rapidly deteriorate. Kathy's sister, Diane, generously donated a kidney to her, allowing her to be an active and attentive mother to her three children who were all under twelve at the time.
After about eight years, Kathy's body rejected Diane's donated kidney, and she began regular dialysis sessions three days per week. Seven years later after countless hours in the dialysis chair, numerous appointments at UC Davis & UCSF, and two potential transplants that fell through at the last minute, she received her second successful kidney transplant. The procedure appropriately occurred the day before Thanksgiving last year.
Thanks to all of the research and attention that kidney disease has received, my mother is one of the many people who have gone on to live a fairly regular life after experiencing kidney failure. Please help support this cause by contributing to the National Kidney Foundation, so more families can benefit as I have.