My Story
Hi, Welcome to my little corner of the interwebs where I plan to educate the masses about kidney disease, specifically IgA Nephropathy while I beg for a kidney. Why beg? Well, I'm a 38 year old mother and wife and I have a whole lotta life left to live. I'd like to do it as happily and healthily as possible and for that, I need a new kidney. But I'm getting way ahead of myself, lets start at the beginning. It was a rainy spring day in April, 1979 and I was just starting my journey into this world. What? You don't want to go back that far? Fine. Lets skip ahead to childhood. I was a mostly healthy child who suffered multiple ear infections and strep throat, as kids often do. When I was in the 6th grade, I got strep throat and a fever accompanied by a rash on my legs and very dark tea colored urine. TMI? Too bad, we're gonna talk about pee a bunch around here. My parents did what parents do and took me to the doct...