by admin | Oct 31, 2017 | ADPKD, Living with PKD
I was born and raised in the Philippines. My mom and dad are both Filipinos. I moved to USA in 2008 to work as an occupational therapist. I work in pediatrics now but I used to work in a geriatric setting five years ago. I’ve met many people with kidney...
by admin | Oct 16, 2017 | ADPKD, Living with PKD, Transplantation
I am 58 years old and I am the first in my family to have PKD. I found out in 2005 while taking my college-age son to see his orthopedic doctor. I asked the doctor to look at my back since I was experiencing lower back pain. The doctor had me get an MRI and by chance...
by admin | Oct 6, 2017 | ADPKD, Living with PKD, Transplantation
I was diagnosed with ADPKD through ultrasound in September 2016 at age 22. My father had recently been diagnosed as well, following kidney issues, and his lack of a relationship with his father made him unaware of the disease. My grandfather lives on dialysis at 0%...
by admin | Oct 6, 2017 | ADPKD, Living with PKD, Transplantation
I am lucky when it comes to PKD. I didn’t start to go into failure until my early 60s, and then before going into complete failure, I received a kidney from a living donor. This donor was John, my daughter’s friend’s husband. Once he heard of my...
by admin | Sep 14, 2017 | Caregivers
My husband’s family has a long history of PKD. My husband, age 72 now, is one of the fortunate ones and received a kidney transplant over 23 years ago from a non-related accident victim from another state. He has never had a rejection episode and we feel so...
