The health of former Kentucky head basketball coach Billy Gillispie has dramatically declined. He told the Dallas Morning News today that he needs a kidney transplant “ASAP.”
“She was hoping that things would have changed from two weeks ago when I was in the hospital, but they haven’t,” Gillispie said.
Gillispie said the doctor told him he is in kidney failure due to years of chronic high blood pressure.
“The next thing she said was, ‘Do you have a donor?’ ” Gillispie recalled. “I said, ‘Well, I didn’t know I needed one.’
“As you can imagine, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, asking questions and all of those things you do when you start feeling life-threatening things.