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Twenty-nine years ago he was a 17year-old, who was ill, had no kidneys, spent three nights a week having his blood cleaned by means of a dialysis machine, attended school half-time and could play no sports. He was on a waiting list, hoping to find a kidney for a transplant. "Simply by someone, who I don't know, donating their kidney, I owe an eternal debt of gratitude." said Young, 45. Young who has lived in Oakville for 21 years remembers it like yesterday. And, that transplant has given him many yesterdays that he may not other wise have had, to live a very full life. "My life changed overnight. I went from being a kid who could barely walk a block because of the debilitating nature of dialysis and really having not much of a life at all," said Young. "My life now ... 1 have a good job. a good family. 1 play sports. I do tilings now that at 17 1 could only dream of." said Young. A fomier journalist with Canadian Press who is now the communications director of Hydro One, Young is married to his wife Michelle and has two daugh ters. Tessa, 15. and Kelsey, 10. He plays slow-pitch baseball and golf, and is active in his daughters' sports lives. He manages his daughter Kelsey's girls' soccer team, the Oakville Phantoms under 11 girls' rep team. Bom in Brantford, Young has lived all across Canada, but was living in Vancouver at the time of his transplant. The donated kidney came from someone who died in Winnipeg -- someone. Young still doesn't know who he or she was to this date. Young said he fell ill at age 11. He had a disease that attacked his renal arteries, making them clog. He lost one kidney at age 11. His remaining kidney gradually deteriorated and Young lost it by the time he was 15. For two years. Young said he under went an 11-hour dialysis treatment three times a week. That entailed the blood being drained from his body, being filtered and being replaced again -- a job his kidneys oth erwise would have done, and done much more effectively. Young said he would check into the hospital overnight while the procedure was done. After two years. Young was a 17year-old who could play no sports, attended school only half time and had to adhere to an extremely restrictive diet. Once Young had the transplant, he said his life changed dramatically though he faced the possibility of rejection and that possibility continues with him to this day. Young said he still takes anti-rejection medications that suppress his immune system to stave off rejection. The drugs, he said, are quite harsh and have caused Young to have problems with his stomach, skin, even a bout with skin cancer. Yet, it's better than where he was. "When I look at where I am today compared to where I was 29 years ago," said Young. Today waiting lists for organs are much longer than what they were nearly 30 years ago, said Young. The ratio of transplant survivors has also increased. "There are lots of people like me now (successful transplant recipients) and there are lots of people waiting to be like me." said Young. The Oakville resident has long been involved with the Kidney Foundation of Canada-Central Ontario Branch and this year is being nominated to sit on its board of directors. The agency is the leading such group in Canada when it comes to lobbying for patient advocacy, providing patient serv ices, funding research and promoting organ donations in regard to kidney dis ease. March is Kidney Month and as such volunteers mount a door-to-door fundraising campaign in hopes people will give what they can. The month also however aims to make others more aware of the issue of kidney disease. More than two million Canadians are affected by kidney disease or related dis orders. 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