'Happy to be alive': Jack Thompson, Garma and a purple dialysis truck

The actor knew of the procedure because of Indigenous friends with kidney disease. Now he needs it himself

“When I did come into the hospital I was an emergency patient, and it’s quite possible that in 48 hours of that I would simply not have woken up,” says Australian actor Jack Thompson.

Thompson is underneath a tiger-print fleece blanket, sitting in an oversized clinical chair. It’s above 30C outside but the tubes running his blood from his arm and into a dialysis machine have caused a slight chill.

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