{"id":5611,"date":"2022-10-15T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2022-10-13T06:38:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:38:34","slug":"opinion-seven-years-after-getting-a-heart-transplant-i-competed-in-the-transplant-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/10\/15\/opinion-seven-years-after-getting-a-heart-transplant-i-competed-in-the-transplant-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Seven years after getting a heart transplant, I competed in the Transplant Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5611\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p><em>The games are really not about medals. They are about finding your tribe as a transplant recipient or living donor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Calvet,<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;Ph.D., is the CEO of Blue Tiger, vice president of Team Southern California on the Transplant Games of America board and author of \u201cMy Life in Stitches \u2014 Everything You Wanted to Know About Transplant But Were Afraid to Ask,\u201d coming out in 2023. She lives in San Diego.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Jeff Traegeser, interim president of the San Diego nonprofit Lifesharing, stood before the Transplant Games of America crowd during the opening ceremony at the San Diego Convention Center on July 29, he eloquently shared his thoughts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/opinion\/commentary\/story\/2022-10-11\/blank-commentary-san-diego-2022-transplant-games-america\">Read more<\/a> in the San Diego Union-Tribune.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5611\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading The games are really not about medals. They are about finding your tribe as a transplant recipient or living donor. Calvet,&nbsp;Ph.D., is the CEO of Blue Tiger, vice president &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/10\/15\/opinion-seven-years-after-getting-a-heart-transplant-i-competed-in-the-transplant-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opinion: Seven years after getting a heart transplant, I competed in the Transplant Games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,446],"tags":[617,1031,1176],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"","views":"1329","post_likes_plusCounter":"2","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}