U.S. Transplant Games, 2010 - Madison, Wisconsin

NKF U.S. TRANSPLANT GAMES

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), along with its many Affiliates/Divisions, presents the NKF 2010 U.S. Transplant Games celebration of life that includes transplant recipients, their friends and families, living donors, donor families, transplant professionals and spectators from the host community.

The Games is the only national athletic competition for recipients of all life-saving organ transplants, as well as the largest gathering of transplant recipients and donor families in the world. The Games serve to promote the health and fitness of its participants while showcasing the success of transplantation, highlighting the tremendous need for more organ and tissue donors, and honoring the thousands of selfless acts of love from donors and their families all over the world.

The Games is a four-day athletic competition for recipients of organ transplants. Competition in the Games is open to anyone whose most recent lifesaving solid organ transplant — heart, liver, kidney, lung, intestine, pancreas and/or heterologous bone marrow — has been functioning for at least six months.

As much as the Games is an athletic event that calls attention to the success of organ and tissue transplantation, it is also a celebration of life among recipients, their families and friends as well as an opportunity to honor our nation’s donors.

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Comment by Jean Crawford on November 30, 2009 at 11:38pm

I am hoping to join Team Kentucky for my first Transplant Games experience -for the 2010 games in Wisconsin. I am a six-organ transplant recipient. I hope to be able to raise money for this great cause!

Comment by betsy on October 17, 2009 at 12:32pm

I have clinic in November and am going to talk with the Drs. about going to Wisconsin in 2010, I don't forsee a problem. With the grace of God I will be attending.

Comment by Karen Weddick on July 30, 2009 at 5:09pm

OMG Kim: What a small world this is. Save a team mate for a pin trade...lol.

Comment by Kim Jacques on July 30, 2009 at 4:10pm

omg I know a few people on your team...you're going to have to beat them to get to me!! LOL! :-) I am friends with Ana Stenzel and her twin, Isa Stenzel Byrnes. Also, a tx friend of mine (Misty Clyde Leighton) will be joining y'all in Madison! She received a double lung transplant almost exactly 1 year ago and I've talked to her so much about the games that she's already looking forward to it!! :-)

Comment by Karen Weddick on July 30, 2009 at 2:59pm

OK, I'm from Team NorCal.

Comment by Kim Jacques on July 30, 2009 at 11:02am

*squeals* I'm SO excited about Madison!!!!!!!!!!!!! Save me a pin and I'll give you a Team Florida one! :-D

Comment by Karen Weddick on July 30, 2009 at 10:58am

WOW Jim, you've been to a few games...LOL!

Comment by Jim Kane on July 30, 2009 at 10:43am

365 days to go, seems like 1994 my first games at Emory were yesterday.

Comment by Karen Weddick on July 30, 2009 at 10:23am

ONE YEAR FROM TODAY IS THE OPENING CEREMONIES; 365 DAYS AWAY!

Comment by Donna Voorhees-Waltz on July 8, 2009 at 7:59am

To Mday:
My sister and I hope to be there on Team Philly. I gave her a kidney at Einstein Hospital.

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