In a heartbeat, you could be the difference.

To my family and friends,

Thank you, first of all. You are very kind to support my efforts in this 2026 Heart Walk.

I am walking for my mom and myself this year. My mom passed away in September 2019 with heart disease (tachycardia) after a string of health episodes that weakened her body. She was 87 years young. Her profession was as a medical technician and as an author of a number of medical papers on the advances in tissue and blood typing for leukemia patients. In honor of my mom, I walk.

I also walk for myself. I have a slight heart murmur, but it doesn't keep me from doing fun things, like trekking through Porto and Lisbon last summer in September 2025 with 1/2 my children and some bonus kids. It was a grand and wonderful adventure, and this walk will be another one ... but on a smaller scale.

Thank you all for your support for this worthy cause! With lots of love ... Kathleen xo