Why I Walk

In 2014, two months after getting married my husband Jeff was diagnosed with stage 3 Kidney disease. After, battling the disease for 10 years he was diagnosed with stage 5 CKD and needed a life saving Kidney transplant. In November of 2024, Jeff’s best friend Mike donated his Kidney. They were not a match so we started the voucher program. In March of 2025, Jeff finally got the call that he will be getting a kidney! 

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.