Second Kidney Transplant for Dad

0:00It's April 5th. You're listening to Calgary News today, AI-powered local news. I'm Corey with the story. A 32-year-old dad from Lefbridge, named Mikkel Azarello, is about to get the ultimate holiday gift, a second-life-saving kidney transplant from, an anonymous living donor born with chronic kidney disease, his organs failed early, one shrinking to raisin size while the other barely worked. As a kid in grade 6, he hooked up to dialysis machines every night for 12 hours, barely making it to school exhausted and sick. That grind lasted over a dozen years until his first transplant in 2019 gave out, forcing him back to treatments every three hours, around the clock. His family kept him fighting, especially his dad who said he was bill strong for this battle. Doctors once wrote him off as too complicated for another shot, but this year everything flipped. Listed for a transplant on March 18th, he figured on waiting six months at least, being top priority from all that dialysis time.

1:02Weeks later, BAM-his-dot calls with a near-perfect match from a stranger willing to donate while alive, Azarello's still reeling from the shock. Monchardia calls it, pure love from a hero risking it all, and Azarello's urging healthy folks to consider living donation since demand crushes, supply. With April 7th marking Green Shirt Day, sparked by Logan Bullets' organ gifts after the humble crash, it's a reminder, one step can rewrite lives, like his.