Why I Walk

I walk because twenty years ago I was affected by kidney disease. During the first five years, I was on dialysis. I would travel to Soundview in the Bronx, for dialysis. I went  three days a week, ( M,W,F) for 4.5 hours per treatment, and this was after working an 8-9 hour days in Newark, NJ. 

On April, 7, 2009, I received a phone call that would change my life. I was at work when my transplant team alerted me that they had a pediatric kidney for me. The kidney belonged to a 3 year old girl that passed away from a car accident. I was blessed that this past April made it 15 years since I received a second chance at life. Over this time (excluding the pandemic) I have been honoring this blessing by paying it forward. Team Hope and I have educated people of the need to get their kidney functions tested, as well as the signs and causes of renal failure. My Kidney Walk team (Team Hope) has raised over $10,000 during this time. ( More than 80 cents of every dollar that was raised went to funding patient  services, professional education, public health education and community services)

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?

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