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Football-sized kidneys removed from local man

HAMILTON, Ohio (WKRC) - His kidneys had grown to the size of two footballs, 10 pounds apiece. Wayne Hubbard could barely breathe or sleep and things were only getting worse. However, his wife found a place in Maryland that could help and it would mean a surgical first. An evening stroll with the wife is something many people take for granted, but not Wayne Hubbard. A little over a month ago, he wasn't able to enjoy one of his greatest pleasures. Wayne has polycystic kidney disease. The retired police officer said, "It's just very difficult to breathe or to catch your breath or to do things that you have to bend over and do. Gerd, acid reflux... again because of the way it pushes on your belly." Wayne is on the mend now. Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center took out his diseased kidneys and they transplanted one new one. Dr. David Leeser said, "We're one of a few centers in the United States that will perform a simultaneous removal of both kidneys and at the same time do a living donor transplant." The surgery allowed Wayne to avoid dialysis and he wants to make others aware. He says roughly 600,000 people battle polycystic kidney disease or PKD. "I don't think anybody knows because if they did they would opt to get these things out of them and so I think it's important for everybody who has PKD to know that this option exists," Wayne said. Wayne's wife, Michelle, was not a kidney match for her husband. However, the couple entered into a paired kidney exchange, a 28-person swap coordinated through the National Kidney Registry. Michelle donated her kidney to someone else and got a kidney for her husband in return. "We knew that participating in the paired kidney exchange program would take Wayne's waitlist time from five years and cut it down to 12-18 months," Michelle said. "And aside from that my kidney then went on to a 71-year-old gentleman in Madison, Wisconsin, so I was able to help two people." Wayne still has a lot of medications and recovery ahead, but he says if the surgery changed his life then it can help others, too. Wayne's new kidney started working immediately after the transplant. Doctors will continue to monitor its function to make sure his body doesn't reject it.