Greg Hallerman, of Hollis, will run the Boston Marathon on April 18 as part of the New England Organ Bank’s Donate Life New England Marathon Team that will take to the roads of eastern Massachusetts as part of the historic Boston Marathon. The team consists of 23 athletes who will run in Donate Life running shirts to raise awareness of the importance of organ and tissue donation and to urge those watching the marathon to consider registering to be organ and tissue donors.
Hallerman is a seasoned runner with 15 marathons under his belt but he just recently began running on behalf of charities. A couple of years ago his 4-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease. While the Hallerman family is very lucky that she made a full recovery, it was a possibility that she could need a transplant.
This easiest way to register as a donor is to do so when you renew your driver’s license or sign up online at www.DonateLifeNewEngland.org. Like the driver’s license designation, the Donate Life New England Donor Registry is a computer database of individuals who have made the decision to be a donor and can be accessed in timely way after an individual’s passing so that their wish to donate may be honored.
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