Team Transplant Cafe

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Permalink Reply by Terri Lynne Willis on April 26, 2009 at 1:56pm

I think that'd be cool :) Nelson what ya think?

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Permalink Reply by Maria B on October 29, 2009 at 4:14am

sounds great but how would you make this happen?

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Permalink Reply by Chris dePaola on February 8, 2010 at 11:00pm

Getting it done isn't the difficult part, that just making phone calls, sending e-mails, etc... The hard part is trying to put people together that are interested in the concept.

I know this thread is a bit old, but its still high on my list of things I want to get done. Be it Team Transplant Cafe or another team name, I'm determined to put together a group of transplant patients who want to be physically active running road races, triathlons, bike races, adventure races, etc.

I've had dreams of jerseys/shirts competing in races all over the country loudly shouting the transplant story. In my mind I've seen a website dedicated to transplant patient health, fitness, and nutrition. Maybe I'm crazy, but I know how difficult it was for me to find good sources of info on these subjects, which leads me to believe others have had and are having the same problems.

SO, my original question stands. Any one interested?

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Permalink Reply by Holly Werlein (Holdol) on February 17, 2010 at 2:37pm

Chris, I would be SO into this! I love doing all kinds of athletic things and I think this is a great idea! I want to travel the world spreading the word about organ donation and showing the success of it too! I know of a couple triathlon groups here in Michigan that support organ donation etc.

We can so do this! Let me know how I can help or whatever...

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Permalink Reply by Dave on February 17, 2010 at 11:10am

Hey there, I just wanted say that I did the Austin marathon all 26.2 miles of it and it was a blast. I did this with a kidney tranplant. The race was will organized and had very supportive crowd recommend to everyone. My time was 4:37 mins.

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Permalink Reply by Dave on February 17, 2010 at 11:10am

Hey there, I just wanted say that I did the Austin marathon all 26.2 miles of it and it was a blast. I did this with a kidney tranplant. The race was will organized and had very supportive crowd recommend to everyone. My time was 4:37 mins.

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Permalink Reply by Tracy/Glen Copeland on February 17, 2010 at 4:25pm

Congratulations Dave! keep it up

Glen

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Permalink Reply by Chris dePaola on February 23, 2010 at 9:56pm

Nelson and I are talking, it looks like this is going to become reality! More to come very soon, I hope!

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