The kidney donor plans to scale Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for patients in need.
Shannon Catalano gets in an eight-mile walk on The Trail at the Woods in Allen, part of the kidney donor's preparation to hike to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.Shannon Catalano has donated her hair to charity six times. She’s on the bone marrow donation registry and regularly donates blood. She started a nonprofit that gives seniors who haven’t ridden a bike in decades the sensation and freedom of doing just that.
Shannon Catalano walks on The Trail at the Woods in Allen. Her training for the Mount Kilimanjaro excursion includes running, yoga and climbing in whatever steep terrain she can find in North Texas, as well as giving up alcohol and caffeine. During wrist surgery following a bike accident, McLaughlin needed transplanted tissue and bone, which came from a cadaver. He exchanged letters with the donor’s family, which he calls “a powerful experience.” Then he met a woman who was a kidney donor, which led him to donate one of his own kidneys.
Years passed, and he didn’t need one. So Catalano signed up for the Be the Match bone marrow registry. Fifteen years later, she was notified she was a match for someone, but the procedure was called off.She contacted the National Kidney Registry, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the number of kidney donations from living donors. After psychological and physical testing, she donated her kidney in May 2018.
“It reminds the people we pedal of childhood, when life was very easy and carefree,” Catalano said. “Riding a bike gave them their first taste of independence. Now, they don’t have that. Someone decides what meals they’ll have and when they eat; they don’t have a lot of choices.”But for a couple of hours almost every Saturday, they feel the breeze on their faces and flying wheels at their feet.
When she heard that Kidney Donor Athletes was planning a trip to Kilimanjaro, she said, “Chris told me, ‘If it’s in your heart to help people, this might be the way to go.’”“Shannon is this phenomenal human being with a passion to participate in something bigger than herself,” said McLaughlin of Kidney Donor Athletes. “She could’ve stopped after donating a kidney. She chose to stay engaged in this.
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