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B.C. dad in urgent need of donor as kidney nears failing point

With less than 5% kidney function, David Jung desperately needs Type O donor
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Surrey’s David Jung, shown here with his children, is hoping for a Type O kidney donor, as he currently has less than five per cent kidney function and urgently needs a transplant. (Contributed photo)

A Clayton couple is hoping to find someone out there who is a match for a needed kidney – before it’s too late.

Carla Jung has been posting about the urgency of her husband, David’s, need for a donor on social media recently, now that he has less than five per cent kidney function.

“My husband is a really reserved, private man… this is something we wouldn’t usually do, but we’re at the point where if he doesn’t get one soon, he likely won’t be healthy enough to have (a transplant),” Carla, who goes by Carla Nicholls Jung on Facebook, said Sunday (Jan.

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Tricia Weel

About the Author: Tricia Weel

I’m a lifelong writer, and worked as a journalist in community newspapers for more than a decade, from White Rock to Parksville and Qualicum Beach, to Abbotsford and Surrey, from 2001-2012
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