SALT LAKE CITY (KYW Newsradio) — The final competitions are wrapping up, and the closing ceremonies of the 2018 Transplant Games of America finish up Tuesday night.
These are the first Transplant Games for Team Philly’s Wendell Burke, a kidney recipient. He received a new kidney a couple years ago after being on dialysis for seven years.
“I went from hating dialysis to talking to people who are on dialysis and telling them, ‘Never give up hope,’ ” he said.
Looking back, he said, he’s met so many people with incredible stories.
He shared one of those stories, from a woman he met who lost her son.
Heart Jim Melwert’s interview with Wendell Burke here.
Read more stories about Team Philly at the Transplant Games of America.