by admin | Jun 2, 2016 | ADPKD, Living with PKD, PKD Parents
Mike Pickett plays golf for a living, so organizing a golf tournament to memorialize his mother, Mary, seemed the natural thing to do to honor her and to raise awareness for PKD. Though Mary quietly battled PKD most of her life, she taught her son to always...
by admin | Jun 2, 2016 | ADPKD, Dialysis, Living with PKD, Transplantation
PKD is a disease that often devastates many members in one family. It’s not unusual for several siblings to battle PKD together. This was the case with the Duvall sisters. In 1965, Mary Ann Duvall wrote a heartfelt letter to her sister Laverne letting her know...
by admin | Jun 2, 2016 | ADPKD, Dialysis, Living with PKD, Transplantation
During the estate planning process, Harold Saul determined it was important for him to include a contribution to the PKD Foundation in his will for the benefit of future generations. Not only does Harold have PKD, but he is the third in his family to have undergone...
by admin | Jun 2, 2016 | ADPKD, Living with PKD, Transplantation
Dustin Williams and Bailey Jackson have been married for two and a half years. Both are getting ready to turn 25, and they have already become members of the PKD Foundation’s Founders’ Annual Giving Society. In 2014, they became Foundation Partners after...
by admin | Jun 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Vehicle donation was the best choice for the Beger family It was decision time. Either sink more money into the car or let it go. Kim Beger decided to let it go. “We live in Nebraska and our son, Xavier, was going to be moving back from California,” Kim...