The Dundee FC Supporters Society were delighted for Ronnie McIntosh as he launched our Healthy Lifestyle initiative before Sunday's game v Stirling Albion, and was given rapturous applause at half time as he entered the ground to complete his racewalk in aid of the DFCSS and Tayside Kidney Patients Association. Ronnie, a double amputee who has received a donor kidney, still competes in athletics events, indeed he's racewalking proof that organ donation can help give patients a new lease of life. "I had a kidney transplant in May 2009 after 6 years of dialysis - and to be honest those 6 years were the worst 6 years of my life". During that time Ronnie's body had rejected the vast majority of the treatment available to him, which meant as a last resort he had Gore-Tex tubes fitted to his thighs - alRonnie launches the initiative with (l-r) John and Sean Mohan, Jacqui Robertson and Graham Smithmost immediately gangrene set in and he ultimately lost both his legs, odds of 300,000-1 in non-diabetic, non-smokers. Ronnie had a transplant on May 16th 2009 and "I haven't looked back since - it's made a huge difference to me". We hope that, with Ronnie's help, Sunday's initiative, which saw leaflets and information on organ donation distributed by volunteers throughout the ground, can convince a number of fans to sign up to organ donation. Ronnie himself was delighted to have helped out, and was thrilled with the reception he received from the crowd at Dens. "Totally unbelievable, you can't describe it, absolutely brilliant" he told DFCTV's Jacqui Robertson when asked how he felt to receive such an ovation from the Dens Park crowd, "that was the biggest applause I've had since I ran the Dundee Marathon in 1984 and was the first parks department man home - it was absoutely tremendous!" Ronnie completed the mile in under 15 minutes - "my fastest before was 15 minutes 10 seconds so I'm over the moon to have broken that" beamed Ronnie - and rightly so, it's a tremendous achievement! On the money he has raised for the club, he told Jacqui he was "over the moon, just to have helped Dundee in some way is absolutely brilliant" We hope Ronnie's story will highlight the benefits of organ donation, in what was the first feature in what we hope will be a regular occurrence at Dens in the future, promoting healthier lifestyles and showing what a difference you can make to your own and other people's lives. We are of course donating 10% of Sunday's bucket collection to the Tayside Kidney Patients Association. In the meantime, a huge thanks and a massive "well done" to Ronnie McIntosh, an extraordinary individual.