Kidney Disease
UCLA Kidney Exchange Program Participant Ride on New Year's Day Donate Life Float
“I used to giggle and laugh at the people at the supermarket who were looking at labels; now I’m that person. I have to go, ...
“There was a time where I didn’t do dialysis for a month, and I refused hemodialysis,” says Michelle Obespo-‐Theus, whose high blood pressure led to ...
“I was diagnosed with PKD (polycystic kidney disease, in which cysts grow on kidneys and cause kidney failure) when I was 15. My doctor at ...
“Nothing was being done for my father. The word dialysis was thrown around, but my father was having a hard time coming to terms with ...
“Pete had a stem cell transplant because he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and the [subsequent] prescription drug interaction is the reason he experienced kidney failure,” ...
"I completely lost my kidney function when I was 9 years old. My mom donated a kidney, but then I lost it in 2004. I've ...
Elaine Levy found out she had stage 4 polycystic kidney disease after getting a CAT scan of her lungs. She recalls, “They said, ‘Oh, I’m ...
“You know what they say about high blood pressure; it’s a silent killer,” says Arlene Dunaetz, married to Richard Dunaetz for 64 years. Eighty‐five-year‐old Richard ...
“I was on a gurney ready to have surgery and my blood pressure was over 200. I said that can’t be right, it must be ...
