Team Transplant, UWMC

Breakthrough, Spring, 2008 steve, at the finish line, 2006 (image:asiphoto)

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Hey, everyone! I hope you’re all having a wonderful summer and enjoying this marvelous weather we’ve been having…It’s hard to believe, but we are already hard at work, gearing up for  our NINTH season of UWMC Team Transplant half marathon training!   The plan is to resume training for the Seattle Half Marathon (Nov. 29th:  http://www.seattlemarathon.org/site3.aspx) [...]

Carla Trulson-Essenberg Q: When and what type of organ transplant did you have? Carla: I had a double lung transplant on Halloween of 2004 for bronchiectasis with Pseudomonas.  I had been on “the list” for only 5 days. Q: What attracted you to UWMC Team Transplant? What’s your favorite part of being on the team? [...]

Wow!  That was fun!   I don’t think we could have asked for a more beautiful day…While it might have been a touch on the warm side for racing, it was pretty much perfect for spectating.  And, in my role as the Queen Bee Spectator, I can’t believe how many of you I was able to [...]

Thanks to everyone who helped out at the finishline….James, Ida, Jason Stahl, Colin Rines…Knowing you all were there to make sure everyone got across the finishline in one piece was huge!   It’s so nice to have someone around after a race, to acknowledge your accomplishment and to care about how you did…To be honest, I [...]

As I mentioned before…and I’ll be the first admit that this is pretty unbelievable…I managed to see all of our transplant recipients as well as many of our other team members during the race. Here are some of the highlights: Jennifer Herlihy finally eclipsed the 2-hour barrier with her brilliant 1:59:48 effort!  She’s been chipping [...]