Judi’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Polycystic Kidney Disease aka PKD)
In brief I was born with polycystic kidney disease and began suffering symptoms when I was in my late teens. The cysts are in my kidneys and liver which caused both organs to be enlarged. When a cyst...
View ArticleKathie’s Fight Like A Girl Story (Polycystic Kidney Disease aka PKD)
My name is Kathie, and I am 57-years-old. I am a mother, a grandmother, a daughter, a sister, and an aunt. I am also living with an incurable disease called autosomal dominant polycystic kidney...
View ArticleAnna’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Fraser’s Syndrome and Cervical Cancer)
When I was a child, I had been afflicted with many medical issues such as ear infections with four sets of tubes, a stigmatism in my left eye, asthma and scoliosis. At the age of 5, I had been...
View ArticleElizabeth’s Fight Like A Girl Story (Kidney Disease)
Hello, my name is Elizabeth. Everyone who knows me calls me Liz. I am a 25 year old mom of 2 wonderful children and have the most supportive husband in the entire world. We have been together for 9...
View ArticleJamie’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Kidney Disease)
I was always such an athletic person, from childhood through high school, so it was a huge shocker when I was diagnosed with FSGS, a type of chronic kidney disease, in August of 2009 at 26 years old....
View ArticleBrenda’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Kidney Disease)
My name is Brenda Brown. I am a 45 year old single mom of three, living in Abbotsford, BC Canada. I’ve been blogging about my story for almost a year now. I have chronic kidney disease with rapid...
View ArticleRachael’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Nephrotic Syndrome)
Hi my name is Rachael. I’m 22 years old and I was diagnosed with FSGS nephrotic syndrome in April of 2012. I knew I was sick when I was in year 12 (2009). I would get stomach pains on a regular basis...
View ArticleMelinda’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Kidney Failure)
My name is Melinda, I’m a wife and mother. I discovered I had kidney failure in the year of 2007. I was tired and sick all the time. One night while my husband was out of town working, I had bad...
View ArticleDonna’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Kidney Disease)
My story began last year. Although I never had my kidneys checked I knew something was wrong. Out of nowhere I would have very bad pain. Last year in 2013, I was admitted to the hospital for a foot...
View ArticleJessica’s Fight Like a Girl Story (Dialysis/Kidney Failure)
Hello world, where do I start? Well my name is Jess and I am 24 year old. As a baby I started to have kidney problems at 13 year old. The doctor told my beautiful mother that I would need to be put on...
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