AAKP is proud to announce the winners of the AAKP Says I Can! campiagn. AAKP Says I Can! aims to increase kidney disease awareness and show kidney patients of all modalities live active, productive lives despite their diagnosis.
 
The three winners selected are:

• Wilfred T. Dow, a 78 year-old hemodialysis patient who rode his bike more than 600 miles from Waterloo, WI to Bay City, MI.
• Mary Sheppard, a peritoneal dialysis (PD) patient, a loving wife and mother who earned a college degree and became a long distance runner after her kidney disease diagnosis.

AAKP Says I Can! winners are featured on posters in dialysis units, transplant centers and doctors' offices across the country. They also receive a free 2008 AAKP Convention registration and complimentary lodging at the official Convention hotel, Grand Hyatt Washington, in Washington, D.C.

This article originally appeared in the April 2008 issue of AAKP Public Policy Briefing.

• Betsy Calloway, a 28 year-old kidney transplant recipient who earned a college degree after being diagnosed with kidney disease.