Over the Mountain Journal recently featured longtime LJCC member Karen Tishler Weinrib and her plans to participate in the 2024 Transplant Games in America. As we noted in our interview with Karen last year, the “full-time mother/patient/volunteer” received a heart transplant at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1991.
“Held every two years, the games is a celebration of life for transplant recipients, living donors, donor families, individuals on the waiting list, caregivers and transplant professionals,” writes Rubin Grant in OTMJ. “The games honors the legacy of donors, highlights the need for and importance of organ, eye and tissue donations, celebrates the success of transplantation and encourages others to register to be donors.”
“’I was extremely excited when I heard that the games were coming to Birmingham,’” Karen tells Rubin. “’I had heard about them in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but this will be my first time taking part in the competition.'”