From Kidney Transplant to World Transplant Games

[grizzlyplumber]

I am awaiting a heart transplant, about 2 years on the list now. One of the things I miss most is mountain biking. Hopefully by the time I am ready for the games mountain biking will be an official event.

[MrSuperJoshi]

Hi Damon. You are a true inspiation to me. I had my transplant on Feb 12th 2011. Just wondering how much do you train and how much water do you drink? Also are you still on steroids? can you do weights after the transplant. I want to start but am too scared to because i'm scared it might damage the transplant. Thanks

[RaphMinus1Kidney]

Very well done Damon...

I marshalled for the British Transplant Games 2010 in England...

[eperez14569]

First of all thanks for replying! I did already they are very informative, thank you very much. I just hope everything goes well and my life can change like yours.

[eperez14569]

Hey damon danieli, my name is edgar perez Im 24 years old and my wife is going to give me her kidney next week 1/31/11 and Im really nervous i keep thinking about it, i feel like my head is going to blow up, i guess im really scare of pain. can you tell me how is the pain lvl after the surgery and how long did it take you until you didnt felt no pain.

[damondanieli]

@eperez14569 Your wife is wonderful for doing that. God bless her. My recovery was very easy and for the most part pain free. Sara, my donor, had some specific complications and went through a lot more pain. See my other videos on the post-transplant recovery for both Sara and me for the full explanation.

[huffman1835]

Love it! How inspirational! God Bless u and u too Sara!

[pinoytoy]

Glad to see you are doing well after the transplant Damon. This is Angelo C. from LWKC and i'm glad to see good things going your way. Take Care!

[lizschick]

what more can I say...you have said it all. FAB love British Liz from Swiss Team

[clifftam34]

I did the 5 km bike time trial at Australia World Games too. It was awesome!!

[gideonelf]

Nice video from Dutch cyclingteam

[seattlesara1974]

Damon,

It has been a little over a year since our surgery and I still get goose bumps thinking of our journey. Your strength has been an inspiration to me. I'm so glad to know you and I'm very proud of us both!

Sara

[damondanieli]

Hi Sara,

You have given me my life back and words cannot describe how thankful I am.

We are truly blessed.

Thank you for everything.

-damon

[Minus1Kidney]

@seattlesara1974 Hello Sara (and fellow donor)... We have started our own website... Please feel free to get in touch...

[Boberry20]

That's awesome! :)

[coffeewiskycream]

Great!!!! See you in Goteborg!! Tiziano Team ITALIA

[naphoy21]

awesome video,it made me feel much stronger everyday and not to lose hope!goodluck and godbless.

[dadskidney]

Nice video dude! Post some more!!!!

[morninggirls]

hi its nice to see people like u....or like us moving on after given 2nd chance.....i am at present teaching aero taebo ....god is really great...

[angieskidney]

Thank you for sending me this video Damond! Great video and am so happy you got to go to the Transplant Games in Australia! Sends chills down me as I know how I felt with my first transplant games last year when I went in Canada! :)

This is a great video! Thank you for sharing it!

[ThomGreen666]

really impressive video. made me feel a little emotional!

[luridlayercake]

Congratulations. You're so cool :D

[jcmegabyte]

Awesome, man! Great job on the vid, too :-)