WHY I WALK This year will be my 6th Annual Kidney Walk, and September 19th is the 7th 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.