“What an incredible thing that I’m only able to do because of a selfless stranger, and the decision they made to donate their organs.” (via thknwco)
“Right before my transplant, I couldn’t walk up a single flight of stairs without pausing to catch my breath,” said Ogg, 57. “I couldn’t walk across my living room without pausing. I could no longer go to the grocery store by myself. To go from that — remembering how hard it was to take those first few steps after my transplant, trying to learn to make my legs move again — to running down this massive hill with all of these other people whom I think of as legitimate runners, wow.
Ogg doesn’t know the identity, age or gender of her donor. All she was told was that the person was young. “I’ve written to my donor family and shared my unending gratitude with them, but I never heard back,” Ogg said. “And while I would love to know who my donor is, of course I absolutely respect the family’s wishes.”
With her heart racing at more than 320 beats per minute, she was rushed to the hospital, unaware the defibrillator had saved her life. That was late in 2017. She went on a transplant list in March of 2018 and received her new heart that July. “I decided to use that time getting into shape,” Ogg said. “I lost a bunch of weight. In 2020 I started hiking, and in 2021 I started hiking a lot more, doing brisk walking.” Early this year she decided to do the Slacker half, in honor of her donor, after a friend suggested they run it.
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