The Donate Life ATVs Across America Team consists of transplant recipients, living donors and donor
family members. Team members for the 2008 event are now being assembled. Please
check back here for updates.
Late in 1996 our brother Elliott
Monroe told our family that he was suffering
from kidney failure. During the next year-and-a-half
he went through dialysis but his kidneys continued
to deteriorate to the point that transplantation
would be required. His brother Kevin was found
to be a match and in April of 1998, Kevin
donated a kidney to Elliott. During the months
that followed, Elliott was
doing so well in fact, that in September 1999
he, his two brothers, and brother-in-law Tom
spent a week in the outback of central Utah
riding their ATVs and camping along the trail.
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Elliott |
Greg |
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However, what had become an
annual trip was the last Elliott would participate
in, for during the next year-and-a-half, Elliott
would be in and out of the hospital with a
variety of problems which culminated in his
death in October of 2001, due to congestive
heart failure as a result of kidney failure.
All during his illness, Elliott
was a pillar of strength, determination and
an example to all of those close to him and
to those he only had an occasional acquaintance
with. Never speaking out about the fate that
life given him and even to his last night,
he made sure that all would be well and only
then asking permission if it would be okay
for him to leave his family. It is only fitting
that we should carry on his stalwart battle
against the condition that overcame him.
Elliott's brother Greg, is in a 23-year fight
against diabetes, a disease that also contributes
to kidney failure. So we are battling on two
fronts and representing the millions of people,
who have been or will be, affected by either
of these two conditions.
Come
join us...
April 21, 2008 to May 4, 2008
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