by PKD Foundation Staff | May 2, 2019 | Awareness, Education
If you follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn), we hope you’ve already heard about our exciting new partnership with Discovery Communications / Discovery en Español. Knowing how important it is to share information about polycystic kidney...
by admin | Apr 9, 2019 | Awareness, Walk for PKD
My name is Lindsay Roper, I grew up in northern California and met my husband Alan while we were going to college in Utah. We married and moved to Orem, UT, where we live with our daughters Sadie (2 ½ years) and Lacey (3 months). As a mother of a child with a rare...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 26, 2019 | Voices of PKD
My name is Kate Callahan and I’m a 21-year-old college student from the San Francisco Bay Area. My journey with PKD begins when I was seven years old. My father became increasingly ill with PKD and was told that he needed to go on kidney dialysis while waiting for a...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Advocacy
As Kidney Month starts winding down, keep up the momentum by raising your voice for PKD! Both the House and Senate will leave Washington, D.C. from April 15-26, 2019, and many will be back in their hometowns. Except for the Passover/Easter weekend (April 19-22), many...
by PKD Foundation Staff | Mar 22, 2019 | Awareness, Education
For this week of National Kidney Month, our challenge to you was to tell someone new! Spreading the word is an empowering thing you can do for the community, no matter how PKD affects you. To show this, we asked our Marketing Specialist, Tierra Hogan, a non-patient,...
