Product Description
About twenty million Americans have been afflicted with kidney disease. In 2001 about four hundred thousand people were afflicted with kidney failure, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. In this book, the author takes you on a journey into the life of one such individual. He is a 36-year-old male who was afflicted with kidney failure. He required a kidney transplant to stay alive. It tells about this young man’s triumphs as well as his pitfalls in living with kidney failure. You will read how he matriculated through college and earned his Master of Arts degree in the midst of undergoing hemodialysis three days a week, and how his brother, his angel, saved his life by courageously and unselfishly donating one of his kidneys. The author presents important information about kidney disease. This book looks at kidney disease through the eyes of the kidney donor, the kidney recipient, and immediate family members; a riveting true story told by those who lived through the ordeal.