Why I Walk

This year will be my 4th Annual Kidney Walk, and September 19th is the 5th Anniversary that I gifted my father my right kidney.

I will continue to advocate for recipients,  future recipients, donors, future donors, and especially my fellow donors with complications. 
I also want to raise awareness;
Living Donors should not be punished for gifting the Gift of Life, then be denied life/health insurance, and/or pay higher rates because we now have a "pre existing condition".
That is not acceptable.

I walk because too many families (like mine) are coping with this devastating chronic illness, and thousands more will face an unexpected kidney disease diagnosis in the year to come.

I walk to support the lifechanging work of the National Kidney Foundation:
     - To ensure that families will have a place to turn when they need answers.
     - To keep up the fight for policy changes to protect kidney patients and living donors.
     - To drive innovation in transplantation and get more loved ones off the kidney transplant waitlist.

Are you with me?

Please consider supporting my efforts with a generous donation.