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WINDSOR, ONT. A Windsor couple struggling through medical and financial challenges say the help they’ve received from a generous stranger has been “overwhelming.” Gerard Reaume and his wife Cindy are working through these hurdles as he has kidney failure and needs a transplant. He is doing dialysis at home. Cindy tested positive as a donor, but sooner discovered her kidneys were cancerous. “When he’s going through dialysis it’s so hot in that room,” Chris Lauzon, the Reaumes’ daughter, said. “He’s sweating so much for someone who is always cold right now because he’s sick.
WINDSOR ONT, Cindy Reaume would like nothing more than to see her husband Gerard happy again. She says “it’s tough” watching him battle Polycystic Kidney disease. The genetic disorder sees fluid filled cysts develop in the kidney causing enlargement. That can lead to kidney failure which Gerard is dealing with. “All my interior organs are getting pushed around and squashed around coz the kidneys are ten pounds each. They gotta go” said Reaume showing how his kidneys have caused his stomach to enlarge adding twenty pounds to his frail body. Gerard says it’s a disorder that runs in his family and flared in 2019 following a couple of heart attacks. He has been on dialysis at home for the past fifteen months.
Chris Lauzon
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