I walk because I know that with every step, I am saving lives, including my own. I walk to help fund research to find treatments and maybe some day, a cure for HCM. I walk in honor of my Heart Donor from North Carolina. I walk to help prevent my son and his family lfrom having to go through what I have been through.

We're all tied to heart disease and stroke in some way. We have to change that. Will you help me?

Your donation will fund groundbreaking research that literally keeps hearts beating and helps people have longer, healthier lives. It is AHA research that allowed me to be safer from arrhythmias for over 28 years as the owner of an internal defibrillator. I no longer have that device with my new heart, but it did save my life more than one time.

Have a heart and help me reach my goal today. And let's walk together on June 6.