Video: Donor exchange gives gift of life
The Montreal Gazette | Charlie Fedelman
Surgeon Dr. Gabriel Chan (2nd from left) and resident surgeon Dr. Alexandre Viau (left) work on the kidney transplant surgery for 72 year-old Cosmo Fazioli, not seen, at the Rosemont-Maisonneuve Hospital in Montreal on Monday, August 6, 2012. Fazioli had spend the last few years undergoing dialysis three times a week and the last five years on a kidney transplant list.
Photograph by: Dario Ayala , The Gazette
MONTREAL - Domenic Fazioli looked at the spot on his abdomen where a surgeon had drawn an X in black and realized there was no going back. He was about to sacrifice a healthy kidney to a total stranger.
Domenic Fazioli looked at the spot on his abdomen where a surgeon had drawn an X in black and realized there was no going back. He was about to sacrifice a healthy kidney to a total stranger.
The gift was not an impulsive act of charity. Fazioli, 41, a Montreal television journalist, would gladly have given a kidney to his elderly father, Cosmo Fazioli, 73, when his stopped working five years ago. But direct donation proved impossible because father and son were not a good immunological match. His father's name went on a transplant list but years later there still was no donor in sight. Time was running out.
Fazioli then heard about a Canada-wide kidney exchange program for people in the same situation â€" patients with willing but incompatible donors â€" and both he and his brother jumped on it nearly three years ago, impatient to help their father.
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{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
Surgeon Dr. Gabriel Chan (2nd from left) and resident surgeon Dr. Alexandre Viau (left) work on the kidney transplant surgery for 72 year-old Cosmo Fazioli, not seen, at the Rosemont-Maisonneuve Hospital in Montreal on Monday, August 6, 2012. Fazioli had spend the last few years undergoing dialysis three times a week and the last five years on a kidney transplant list.
Photograph by: Dario Ayala , The Gazette
MONTREAL - Domenic Fazioli looked at the spot on his abdomen where a surgeon had drawn an X in black and realized there was no going back. He was about to sacrifice a healthy kidney to a total stranger.
Domenic Fazioli looked at the spot on his abdomen where a surgeon had drawn an X in black and realized there was no going back. He was about to sacrifice a healthy kidney to a total stranger.
The gift was not an impulsive act of charity. Fazioli, 41, a Montreal television journalist, would gladly have given a kidney to his elderly father, Cosmo Fazioli, 73, when his stopped working five years ago. But direct donation proved impossible because father and son were not a good immunological match. His father's name went on a transplant list but years later there still was no donor in sight. Time was running out.
Fazioli then heard about a Canada-wide kidney exchange program for people in the same situation â€" patients with willing but incompatible donors â€" and both he and his brother jumped on it nearly three years ago, impatient to help their father.
Read more
{Register to be an organ,eye and tissue donor. To learn how, www.donatelife.net or www.organdonor.gov}
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