Kidney failure changes athlete, business owner's life

In less than two years, Alejandro Plascencia has gone from a former boxer-turned-restaurant-owner who loved to go for walks in the Bear Paw Mountains to someone who struggles walking down the street.

Plascencia, an enrolled member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, is now dealing with difficulties related to failing kidneys brought on by high blood pressure and made worse by a recent heart attack. As a result, Plascencia now spends the bulk of his day in bed or on the couch in his home in Country View Village on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, he said.

He is now on a waiting list for a kidney tr...