Australian all-rounder Cameron Green has opened up on his kidney disease for the first time.
Cameron Green reveals his chronic Kidney Disease
The Australian all-rounder Cameron Green has revealed that he has been suffering from a long-time kidney disease. During his birth, his parents were informed that he was born with chronic Kidney disease.
On diagnosed with stage one he had a life expectancy of just 12 but has been able to manage the issues throughout his cricket career.
Cameron Green was sidelined from playing Xl for the opening Test of Pakistan’s tour of Australia in Perth. He is an introverted and reserved type by nature and has not revealed his health conditions even to his friends or teammates.
While speaking in the media, “My parents got told when I was born that I had chronic kidney disease,” said Green. “Basically, there’s no symptoms, it was just picked up through ultrasounds.
“Chronic kidney disease is basically a progressive disease of your kidney’s health function. Unfortunately, mine doesn’t filter the blood as well as other kidneys. They’re at about 60% at the moment which is stage two.
“I consider myself very lucky that I’m not as affected physically by chronic kidney disease as other people who are affected by the same thing.
“With chronic kidney disease, there are five stages, with stage one being the least severe, and stage five being transplant or dialysis. Fortunately, I’m stage two, but if you don’t look after them enough, it goes back down.
“Kidneys can’t get better. It’s irreversible. So anything you can do to slow the progression, you basically try and do.”
“At the time it was unchartered territory as such, the prognosis wasn’t great,” Gary Green said. “There were life expectancy issues that he might not expect to live past twelve years of age.”
“I think it was pretty well documented that I had a pretty long day of bowling and a pretty long bat as well, and then had a cramping episode,” Green said. “It took me a long time to realize that it was probably my kidney function that was affecting my cramping.
“I always thought I didn’t drink enough, didn’t eat enough, didn’t look after myself during the game as well as I could have, but I think over time I realized that I was doing absolutely everything right, but I was still cramping, unfortunately.”
“I have told a few guys in the cricket world. The coaching staff are all over it,” Green said. “I think all the guys in the Aussie cricket team, I’ve told. After a few cramping episodes, I probably had to come off and tell them that it’s probably more than not being professional enough because I knew in the background I was eating and drinking as much as I could to give myself the best chance.”
The Australian side is currently playing in the NRMA Insurance Test series against which the hosts won the toss and chose to bat at Perth Stadium.
