{"id":586164,"date":"2026-04-06T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:21:09","slug":"calgarian-awaiting-kidney-transplant-urges-considering-organ-donation-as-green-shirt-day-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/586164\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgarian awaiting kidney transplant urges considering organ donation as Green Shirt Day nears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the eighth annual Green Shirt Day on Tuesday, Calgarians are invited to partake in a two-kilometre walk to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation. <\/p>\n

Calgary husband and father Scott Clay has been in need of a kidney transplant since 2024, leading his wife Wendy, and their daughter Nicole to get involved with the cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean there\u2019s ups and downs, but for the most part, if you were to talk to him you\u2019d never know there were any issues,\u201d Wendy told CityNews.<\/p>\n

Scott has had a tumultuous ride. He was in a life-changing motorcycle collision back in 2020, which led the doctors to discover that he had stage 4 kidney disease. <\/p>\n

He says his daughter is compatible to donate her kidney, but there were some additional complications in the lead up to his transplant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found out that I had cancer, so I had to deal with that. Had that dealt with so I\u2019m fine, I\u2019m cancer free, but you have to be cancer free for two years before they\u2019ll even consider doing a transplant, so I\u2019m just in that waiting period right now,\u201d Scott said. <\/p>\n

Green Shirt Day was created to pay respect to the lives lost in the Humboldt Broncos 2018 bus crash, and to honour the legacy of Logan Boulet, a member of the team who decided to become an organ donor \u2013\u00a0an act which saved six lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, families like the Clays can benefit from the community that Green Shirt Day has created.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd all these people in green shirts they were there for hope and motion, and I just started to cry, because I felt, here\u2019s our other family. Here\u2019s people like us,\u201d Wendy said. <\/p>\n

Jill Goth with the Kidney Foundation of Canada breaks down the demand for transplants in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are 4,000 people waiting for a life saving transplant, and 72 per cent of the people are waiting for a kidney, and we know that many of them are unfortunately going to pass away if they don\u2019t receive a transplant,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The Clays are urging people to look into becoming an organ donour, adding that even if you haven\u2019t officially signed up at a registry, you should tell your family your intentions.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Green Shirt Day parade is happening April 7.<\/p>\n

Anyone looking to get involved can find more information on\u00a0greendshirtday.ca<\/a>, or through the Kidney Foundation of Canada. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tScott and Wendy Clay at their home in Calgary. (Joel Mendelson, CityNews) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the eighth annual Green Shirt Day on Tuesday, Calgarians are invited to partake in a two-kilometre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-586164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}