HOBART | Terry Zmucki said he was disappointed by a recent setback but remains hopeful he will get a new kidney someday.

"I'm going to continue playing the waiting game," Zmucki said. "There's no matches right now."

Zmucki found out last week from doctors that the five people who came forward to donate a kidney to him weren't a match.

The offers from local residents were made to donate him a kidney following an article about him that appeared in The Times on Sept. 22.

The Hobart man, who undergoes dialysis three times a week, has been on a kidney donor list since early 2007.

All who offered to donate their kidney gave the same reason: they didn't want Zmucki's 2-year-old son, Zachary, to grow up without a dad, he said.

Zmucki, who recently turned 37, received a heart and kidney transplant on Nov. 17, 2006.

His new heart had been beating steadily up until a few weeks ago when doctors put him back in the hospital for a checkup.

The kidney he received during the same heart transplant failed two months after surgery.

Zmucki was born with aortic stenosis, a condition in which the heart's aortic valve narrows, and had undergone seven open-heart surgeries prior to the transplant.