Yellowknife resident Roy Dahl has been waiting for a kidney transplant for more than seven years and Covid-19 has caused further complications.

During spring 2020, Dahl said health professionals reassured him that he would receive his much-needed replacement kidney. However, the emergence of the pandemic has kept him on a waiting list.

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Last June, the lead surgeon and a cardiologist reviewed DahlSA国际影视传媒檚 medical file, telling him that everything looked good to receive a transplant by Christmas.

A call from the transplant coordinator in December verified that Dahl, 61, was atop the waiting list and that SA国际影视传媒�(he) was going to be getting a kidney,SA国际影视传媒� he recalled.

Though 2021 has come and gone without the surgery, he remains assured that everything will work out.

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DahlSA国际影视传媒檚 predicament began in 2013-SA国际影视传媒�14 after he started feeling more and more tired daily.

A trip to his doctor led to blood work being done. The results revealed that DahlSA国际影视传媒檚 kidney was functioning at close to 35 per cent.

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Another round of blood work showed that his kidney functionality had rapidly decreased to around 11 per cent.

While in Edmonton for his initial dialysis treatments in December 2014, health professionals informed Dahl that he could expect to wait three to five years for a kidney transplant.

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All the while, heSA国际影视传媒檚 racked up close to 1,100 dialysis treatments. He requires them each Monday, Wednesday and Friday, each taking about 4.5 hours.

DahlSA国际影视传媒檚 hopes are still pinned on a call from the hospital with good news.

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But Covid still looms large. An individual close to Dahl recently tested positive for the coronavirus, meaning Dahl must also get tested.

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