I am really excited to be the Alabama Team Manager!  We are bringing back an amazing team that has not participated for several years. And they are very amazing.

I had not put much thought into donating before, but came across it, learned donors are well evaluated and the risks are low, and then firmly decided to donate in memory of our first child who was born without kidneys 20 years earlier. The pace was fast -decided in June- donated in August 2022! I found my recipient through a Facebook post by his dad after searching for info about the Vanderbuilt Transplant Center. I asked if I could test on Alex's behalf and then kept messaging his family steps along the way, saying I am sure it would work out (Lol, they checked me out to see if I was just some crazy person). We were a match and compatible! The similarities between our families are numerous- we all took these as "God signs"- Alex's major is the same as my daughter's; he is so very close in age to what our son would have been, his parents promised a kidney for his 21st birthday and found it. Alex was holding on and putting off dialysis. We met and talked for hours during pre-op testing. He had already started his Junior year in college and made up what he missed- then continued on as if it was no big deal!!! Clearly this kidney was grown for him. It has shifted my grief so much as well.

I hope to manage the team and hopefully complete the 5K and the virtual triathlon (1500m run, 20km cycling, 200 yd freestyle). We'll see what else! There is a reason I couldn't sell my road bike from my sprint triathlon days. 

Our main goal is to increase the number of donations! Please be sure to register as an organ donor - you can't take it with you. In Alabama:
Donate Life Transplant Games - Donate Life America (registerme.org) Let me know if you have newly registered in other states. And if you are considering living donation (kidneys or liver transplants) please feel free to talk with me! 

If you'd consider sponsoring me, I'd be honored.