Waco resident Matt Shane is getting back on his bike for the first time in over a year.

“I was very active running, biking, triathlon…” Shane said.

Shane was also an active blood donor and donated every chance he got up until his childhood diagnosis caught up with him.

“I was diagnosed with a genetic chronic kidney disease when I was 5,” he said. “It didn’t kick in until 2014.”

Doctors warned Shane he had entered stage three kidney failure.

“I did an ironman in 2015 and then I hung up my shoes for a while just because I didn’t want to risk damaging anything else or getting any worse,” he said.

But the day he decided to suit up one more time, his health took a turn for the worse.

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