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Sarah Pipkin-Love
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Sarah Pipkin-Love
Heart Transplant Recipient
Corpus Christi, TX
“I am extremely excited to once again be chosen for the tour, as it is one of the best weeks of my year. This is a week where I get to be around others who “get it” and understand what it is to be around the transplant world. This is the one place in my life where I get to feel normal and what a week it is!
I would like to participate in the tour this year to help others feel this same sense of normal. To meet others and to say I have been where they are has a huge impact. I know that when I was waiting for my heart transplant, I just wanted to talk with someone who was my age that had been through the same things I was going through. If there is any way that I can be that person for someone else and help them, that’s what we are called to do and how I want to leave a legacy. The impact that we can make on others and the communities through this ride are life giving.
I believe I have the ability to meet people where there are in many situations. I am not only a heart transplant recipient, but also a recipient of blood and platelets. I have seen what it is like on the other side watching Chance, my husband, struggle while he is fighting cancer. Donor awareness is important to my life and it has taken many people’s life-saving donations to help save my life. It is because of them that I have been able to complete in an Ironman 70.3, run multiple marathons, get married, teach school, coach sports and make an impact on the world.
I am a soccer coach at Calallen High School and this year our motto is “leave a legacy.” I want to leave a legacy on this world and I want it to be one where I was able to help others. I believe that is one of the greatest gifts we can leave on this Earth. Riding in the Lone Star Circle of Life Bike Tour is one way where we get to help others and leave a lasting impact.