Montreal man seeks living kidney donor as dialysis takes toll [Video]

A 25-year-old Montreal man is looking for a living kidney donor and has made a public appeal on social media. Until he finds one, Julian Zadrozny must undergo 10 hours of dialysis a day.

Zadrozny said that late last year, he knew something was wrong.

“[I had] cramps, trouble sleeping, and shortness breath.”

He said blood tests confirmed that he needed a kidney. 

Kayleigh Tooke, Zadrozny’s partner, helps with the day-to-day of his dialysis.

“There is a lot of tubing, a lot of bags to set up. And if you set them up wrong it could cause a lot of harm,” Tooke said.

Zadrozny, who studies at Concordia University, said his quality of life is suffering because of the dialysis, so he decided to put the call out for a living donor on social media.

“A living donor is safer than people think, in surgery. They go in with two tubes and take out the kidney with that …