WEST POINT, Ga. (WTVM) - Isaac Love has been on dialysis for about four years after uncontrolled high blood pressure caused his kidneys to fail. He’s now in stage five kidney failure, on the transplant list at Piedmont in Atlanta and hoping for a match from a living donor.

Donate Life America says dialysis only does about 10 to 15 percent of what a healthy kidney does. Eighty-six percent of people on the national transplant waiting list are waiting for a kidney.

Because you can live a healthy life with just one kidney, living donation can sometimes cut the wait from three to five years down to about a year.

Love does peritoneal dialysis at home about eight hours a day, five days a week.

“Stay on top of your blood pressure and just go get checked because you just never know,” Love said. “It’s going to be hard, but always have a positive outlook on being on dialysis and doing your treatments the way you’re supposed to do them. You’re helping save someone’s life, and you can still live a healthy life with one kidney.”

April is Donate Life Month. World Kidney Day was March 12.

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