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With his health on the line, former DJ ‘Greg the Egg’ puts out the call for a living donor TED CLARKE Citizen Staff
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Greg Mackay holds Mr. PG and a 2009 Citizen article that featured him as the volunteer university radio station DJ Greg the Egg. The 67-year-old Prince George man is seeking a living kidney donor to give him a new lease on life.
Mackay worked 30 years for the City of Prince George as an equipment operator until he retired in 2014. A devoted
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It’s probably the most difficult question Greg Mackay has ever asked in his life. Would you be willing to donate one of your kidneys to me? Now in end-stage renal failure, facing the inevitability of dialysis for the rest of his life just to stay alive, the 67-year-old Prince George man has been tasked by his doctors to try to find a living donor willing to give him a healthy kidney. He made a YouTube video he sent to close friends and family, but it is a difficult subject to broach. “It’s embarrassing,” he said. “It’s a really hard ask, you feel awkward,” said Greg’s wife, Shirley. “The doctors have pressured us to do this, because if you don’t ask, you don’t get. They want us to get it out on all the social media.”
gig on CFUR FM 88.7, UNBC’s campus radio station, and he adopted his “Greg the Egg” persona on a weekly program, The Air Guitar Show, that rocked local airwaves for 15 years. He and Shirley were in Vancouver attending a Kiss concert in January 2019 when Greg noticed blood in his urine. He also lost his appetite, felt nauseous and tired, and went to the hospital in Burnaby, where he was told to see his doctor after he returned to Prince George. He arrived home to a foot of snow and, after shovelling the driveway, went to bed. By the following morning, his condition had worsened. “It was awful — for the rest of the week he slept pretty much 22 hours, he’d have half a piece of toast and go back to bed the next day,” said Shirley.
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