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A Lifetime of Struggles

Post a new topicby livingwith on Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:50 am


My name is Terry, I was born in 1962, adopted six weeks after birth. Not too long after I started having problems, wasn’t developing normally. In and out of the hospital, I was diagnosed after my kidneys were already destroyed at the age of 6. I had 45% total function of both kidneys until they finally failed at age 14.
In 1976 I had shunts put in both wrists, then both kidneys removed with complications, placed on dialysis every other day for 6-8 hours then in came an angel looking out f...Read the full article

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