Photo: Courtesy of Teagan Walter
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Boston resident and living kidney donor Teagan Walter is running a relay race to prove a point.
WBZ NewsRadio recently spoke to Walter, who is planning to run the Wild West Relay race within a pack of a dozen fellow kidney donors and recipients.
“I love that economic concept of the value that’s created from one person doing something and multiple people benefiting from [it],” Walter said.
The group that Walter will be running with is called Renal Warriors, a National Kidney Registry-sponsored team of nine living kidney donors and five kidney recipients.
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Walter said that since she joined the team, they have been nothing but encouraging and supportive to her.
“They ended up being mentors to me,” Walters said.
Walter said that she donated one of her kidneys to someone she didn’t even know-except through a letter.
“He’d been on dialysis and blood pressure medications and had been severely limited in his health for over a decade,” Walter added.
Throughout the process of donating her kidney, she had the support of two runners also participating in the race, Steve Wilson and Hillary Baude.
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The race is 200 miles in length, and is like a baton pass, with members taking up three legs for a total of 21 miles each.
Walter works as a medical device engineer, who works on cutting-edge kidney stone treatments and doesn’t want people to worry about the complications from the process of donating or receiving a kidney.
“You can go on and have an amazing, healthy, [and] fulfilling life!” she said.
The Wild West Relay takes place August 2-3, and winds through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
WBZ NewsRadio’s Jay Willett (@JayWillettWBZ) reports.
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