Transplant Recipient's Top 10 Things About the U.S. Transplant Games

Adapted from a Top 50 list by Ana Stenzel, Lung Transplant Recipient, Team Nor-Cal

  1. Being alive and present with people who “get it”
  2. Team Spirit: “Go, Team Nor- Cal!”
  3. Running the 100 m dash with five other double lung recipients with cystic fibrosis- a whole new generation of us “cured” from CF
  4. Thanking God with others
  5. Making through the 5K run, barely
  6. Meeting Donor families and saying “Thank you”
  7. Dancing at the Closing Party
  8. Being interviewed by the news/NKF
  9. Conversations on the Shuttle bus – connecting with total strangers
  10. Getting two medals