Susan Jacks concert/ organ donor awarenss event in Victoria

Team Embody Life Fitness helped represent me at the Susan Jacks kidney foundation benefit concert at UVic in Victoria, BC, Canada last night.  We wanted to show our appreciation for Susan stepping forward and raising more awareness and funds for the kidney foundation.  Every time we go to these events, we recognize all of the ways that we can be involved as a team in helping this issue.  We observed the silent auction to prepare for our own upcoming silent auction on May 5, 2012.  More details to come.  We had a great opportunity to share this new video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYT177TqDI4

We shared it with Susan Jacks' manager and team, with 98.5 Ocean radio station here in Victoria and with the BC Chapter of the Kidney Foundation.

Thanks so much to Susan Jacks' manager, Esmond Shong for allowing us the opportunity to meet with her in a special VIP reception after the concert.  It was very gracious and kind of you.  We look forward to future collaborations with this team to get the awareness about the donor situation in Canada out there.  We want to change things so that all Canadians are born donors.

I had the privilege of speaking with and meeting Susan and telling her my story of how I got to this point of being on dialysis and that I definitely appreciate the hope that she shone on my story as I don't have a kidney donor and I am waiting - sometimes it gets pretty dark, but I have to remain positive.  Hopefully at some point someone will come forward with an O blood type kidney to save my life.

Really enjoyed the music, all of the band members and the special guests that came in to sing.  It was a real privilege and an honour to come in as someone with my illness and enjoy it with my Embody Life Fitness team.  Thanks to everyone who came out - Jane, Ricki, Wendy, Elissa, Spiro, Daphne, Susan, Keith and Nicole!