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Isha Triguero was an active sixteen-year-old who loved playing for her high school track team when, all of a sudden, she began suffering from extreme ...

After living with unmedicated bipolar disorder, characterized by periods of extreme emotional highs and lows, Shannon Glynn was thrilled when a doctor...

When Logan Blevins was three days old, a preemie weighing just three pounds and four ounces, his doctors noticed something amiss with his urine and bl...

By Tracy McKibben, Chair, NKF Board of Directors As many of you know, I donated a kidney to my mother because she had kidney failure. My mother gave s...

On a day like any other, Cheyenne Severence's father, Robert Barns, began having trouble with his vision. He discovered that one of his retinas had de...

Photo Credit: Ryan LaPlante The material found in this book does not constitute professional medical advice; the readers are advised to seek medical p...

Lance Mason's kidney journey began before he was even bornboth his parents had kidney disease and had gone through dialysis and kidney transplants. G...

Brandon Talley was a college football player when he was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 19. He had slipped into a coma when his blood sugar was...

From a sudden collapse and strokes to dialysis treatments and failed transplants, Nathan and Candria's kidney disease journeys have been marked with m...