Alain Roy went in for regular blood work in January.A life-changing discovery came soon after.”From there it got worse. The numbers got worse. Im at stage 5 now.”It’s why, if you’re driving around the state of Vermont, you may see one of his signs. “We’ve got them in Montgomery, Enosburg. We’ve got them all scattered all over northern Vermont.” Roy’s wife started with just a handful of signs in the spring. But over the next few months his condition worsened.“She decided she was going to get signs out, and so we ended up with ten, another 20, and it evolved that way.”Alain is a 54-year-old man, with two kids, and a lot to look forward to, but he can only get back to what he loves when he’s stopped searching for a donor.If the perfect match is not made by the fall, he’ll have to begin dialysis. Right now, 95,000 people are in front of him on the national kidney registry.“I don’t want to sit five to eight years just waiting for this thing to go off. That’s not me. It’s not us. We want to be proactive we want to see what we can do to get one,” he said.The signs have lead to several phone calls, no match yet, but the family is not giving up.They’re hoping the next caller can change Roy’s life yet again.Anyone interested in helping can call the number presented on the sign, or, visit this website linked here.https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/transplantation/becoming-living-kidney-donor?fbclid=IwAR0rJV3_JvDVjczHgD7hsu2ErSMwJDPfvnRT8PfLD6PuDUWhOwvjYBAnckA
Alain Roy went in for regular blood work in January.
A life-changing discovery came soon after.
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“From there it got worse. The numbers got worse. Im at stage 5 now.”
It’s why, if you’re driving around the state of Vermont, you may see one of his signs.
“We’ve got them in Montgomery, Enosburg. We’ve got them all scattered all over northern Vermont.”
Roy’s wife started with just a handful of signs in the spring. But over the next few months his condition worsened.
“She decided she was going to get signs out, and so we ended up with ten, another 20, and it evolved that way.”
Alain is a 54-year-old man, with two kids, and a lot to look forward to, but he can only get back to what he loves when he’s stopped searching for a donor.
If the perfect match is not made by the fall, he’ll have to begin dialysis. Right now, 95,000 people are in front of him on the national kidney registry.
“I don’t want to sit five to eight years just waiting for this thing to go off. That’s not me. It’s not us. We want to be proactive we want to see what we can do to get one,” he said.
The signs have lead to several phone calls, no match yet, but the family is not giving up.
They’re hoping the next caller can change Roy’s life yet again.
Anyone interested in helping can call the number presented on the sign, or, visit this website linked here.
https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/transplantation/becoming-living-kidney-donor?fbclid=IwAR0rJV3_JvDVjczHgD7hsu2ErSMwJDPfvnRT8PfLD6PuDUWhOwvjYBAnckA
