Hi, I'm a new member of this site but I would like to inform everyone that this weekend is the annual Kidney Walk put out by the National Kidney Foundation. Here is more information:

http://donate.kidney.org/site/TR/Walk/NCaliforniaNNevadaOregonWashingtonandAlaska?pg=entry&fr_id=5620

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Hi!  My name is Leesa and I have 3 kidneys.  Two of them don't work and one of the kidneys is from my mother.  

My family has history of kidney failure.  My father passed away with a kidney failure when I was young, he was in his 30s.

For some reason, I never thought that my kidneys would have a problem.  Maybe because I was ignorant, or maybe because I was young, but it just wasn't something I thought about.  Until I finished college.  

I was diagnosed…

Welcome to the new website!  This gives me an opportunity to tell you all that I made the decision to take out my unused fistula.  I was very fortunate to have never used it; going directly from CKD to a transplant!  My transplanted kidney was working so well, I decided to have it taken out. My left arm (with the fistula) was bothering me; not really numb, but just an odd feeling.  To get it out, I had to go into surgery at Stanford.  Everyone there was wonderful from the people in the…

Hi Everyone,

I have Polycystic Kidney Disease and for several years saw my kidney function declining without a matching donor. Living in the Bay Area meant I was looking at a 6 to 7 year wait on hemodialysis for a cadaveric donor - my kidneys were way too big for PD to work. I put all my effort into staving off dialysis by embracing the lessons of Dr. Mackenzie Walser, described in his book, Coping with Kidney Disease: A 12-Step Treatment Program to Help You Avoid Dialysis. His very…