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A Langley father of two is going through an extended look ahead to a brand new kidney.

Each night time, Thomas Cooper spends 9 hours at his residence, connected to a dialysis machine.

Cooper is in end-stage renal failure, along with his kidneys performing at six per cent of regular, in keeping with the outcomes of the most recent check he had in July.

He wants a transplant, nevertheless it gained’t be occurring any time quickly.

“I used to be informed 5 to eight years if I wait on a donor,” Cooper elaborated.

Relations should not an possibility as a result of Cooper had Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), a situation wherein scar tissue develops on the components of the kidneys that filter waste from the blood.

“It makes a recurrence [of FSGS] extra probably [if a family member donates],” Cooper defined.

Due to that, Cooper has gone public, hoping to search out somebody keen to step up.

“I’m actively searching for a kidney donor,” Cooper associated.

“My blood kind is O constructive. I can obtain [transplants] for O constructive and O unfavorable.”

Anybody inquisitive about donating can go to www.transplant.bc.ca to acquire the required contact data.

Cooper has additionally given the Langley Advance Occasions permission to publish his e mail for anybody considering of being a donor.

He could be reached at atcooper1992@gmail.com.

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Cooper ended up in hospital in Might of 2020 after dropping 85 per cent of his imaginative and prescient over a month, “attributable to my blood stress being to the purpose that it was inflicting stress on my nerve endings.”

His blood stress was so excessive, one physician informed him he “ought to have had a coronary heart assault or stroke,” Cooper recalled.

After a six-day keep and getting his blood stress beneath management, “I used to be launched with the brand new information that I used to be in kidney failure and wanted a kidney transplant.”

Then, on July 28 of this yr, Cooper’s spouse, Vanessa, was identified with breast most cancers and went in for surgical procedure on Wednesday, Aug. 11.

Cooper stayed residence from work, taking care of sons sons Carter, six, and Kendrick, one.

“The previous three weeks glided by fairly quick,” Cooper commented.

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It’s estimated that 75 per cent of 4,300 Canadians on the ready record for an organ transplant are ready for a kidney.

Greater than half of all residing kidney transplant donors are unrelated to the recipient.

In B.C., 1.5 million folks have signed as donors with the provincial organ donor registry at www.taketwominutes.ca, however the want for organs stays excessive. As of Jan. 1, 2021, there have been 737 folks ready for an acceptable organ for transplant in B.C.

Registration is open to folks a minimum of 19 years previous, and requires a provincial well being quantity, title, delivery date and deal with. Those that have bother registering their choice on-line can name 1-800-663-6189 for help.


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