Green reveals he is fighting chronic kidney disease

Australia all-rounder Cameron Green disclosed that he has been fighting stage two chronic kidney disease which was diagnosed when he was just a newborn and had a 12-year life expectancy at one point.The 24-year-old’s parents were informed by medical professionals that their son might not survive past the age of 12 due to the ailment, which was identified at birth.Despite this, he has managed to cope with the condition throughout his professional cricket career.The 24-year-old all-rounder was left out of Australia’s playing XI for the Test against Pakistan in Perth as Mitchell Marsh usurped him as the incumbent all-rounder.Green has been dealing with the disease for his entire life, having hardly made it known to even team-mates or friends. Almost no one, not even teammates or friends, know that Green has had the illness his whole life.”My parents got told when I was born that I had chronic kidney disease. 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 per cent at the moment which is stage two,” Green told Channel 7 Australia as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.”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’s 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,” the all-rounder added.As reported by ESPNcricinfo, when Green’s mother Bee Tracey had a 19-week pregnancy scan, the condition was discovered. There were early concerns that Green might not live past the