Bonnie Bales, left, donated a kidney to her husband Andy Bales, who runs the Union Rescue Mission. The two work out regularly, and nine months after a transplant operation, Andy bicycles 120 miles a week. Photo Gary Leonard
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - It’s Sunday at about 1 p.m., and the guy swimming laps in the pool at the Los Angeles Athletic Club shouldn’t be here.
Well, he should, because he has a weak heart that needs strengthening, but he shouldn’t because, well, it’s complicated.
The 55-year-old gliding slowly but surely through the water en route to a mile-and-a-half workout is Andy Bales, who for more than eight years has worked as the CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, the largest homeless shelter in Skid Row. At the time of the swim, he was also less than four months removed from a kidney transplant.
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