Running the 2024 United Airlines NYC Half will be quite normal for Peter Kirk, considering he runs two half marathons almost every week.
Running the 2024 United Airlines NYC Half will be quite normal for him, considering he runs two half marathons almost every week."Luckily at this point, it was three and a half years ago, but easily the scariest thing that ever happened to me," Kirk said. "But, one week I started throwing up and it was a little unusual but it wasn't just once it was like once or twice a day, so I went to see my hematologist.
"They put me in the ICU, put me in an artificial coma, intubated me and within 24 hours of that they called a priest in the room and told my wife I was the sickest person at the ICU in NYU," Kirk said. "I always thought I was a strong person, but I think my wife is 10 times stronger than me. She was a rock and she was there for me even though I wasn't there, I was in a coma.
"I got the transplant on June 9, 2021, eight months after the whole ICU debacle intubation and when I came out, you're decimated. Like you're happy it went well, and the doctors tell you you're cured of leukemia, which is just a miracle, but you're just decimated," he said. "I lost 35 pounds. I couldn't open a Coke can initially or the fridge. I just slowly started getting back and after about two months, I was like it's time to try go for a run.
One thousand half marathons in 10 years -- that's about one half marathon every three and a half days."So, I was a happy guy before I had cancer. I think I was a nice guy, like thinking about myself, my family, my friends, like most people do, but after this happened, I feel like I have this need, like I have to do something to inspire people," he said.
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