There are over 25,000 people in Australia living with kidney failure. There is no cure. Dialysis or a kidney transplant are needed to stay alive. Zak lived for a decade with the challenges of peritoneal dialysis, haemodialysis, cancer in his native kidneys as a result of dialysis and two kidney transplants over this time. He was the recipient of a live donor kidney from his father and extremely fortunate to receive a deceased donor kidney more recently. The disease continued to attack his donated kidneys but gave him much more freedom than being tied to a machine 4 days a week. The constant health and medical challenges made it very difficult for Zak to build an independent life and hugely impacted his mental health. He was an extraordinary young man whose life was pulled out from under him just as he was starting to live. He was kind and compassionate and creative and funny but his life was very difficult. He will be so terribly missed.
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