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Delores Wiesenberg knew long before she was diagnosed at 57 with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) where cysts grow inside the kidney that she might one day get the disease.
Her own mother, two siblings and cousins all suffered from kidney disease, passed genetically from generation to generation.
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“You have to accept what you’re born with,” said the 86-year-old Pembroke resident. After her kidney transplant in 2009, where she spent nine days in the hospital to recuperate, she only has words of appreciation for the anonymous kidney donor who gave her the “gift of life.”
I passed it on to my daughter : Ottawa Valley family affected by silent kidney disease
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In a play on six degrees of separation, the idea that all people, on average, are six or fewer social connections away from each other, participants in the Kidney Foundation’s Six Degree Challenge are tagging six friends and spreading kidney disease awareness during the month of March.
“We’re only six degrees related from somebody who we know has had kidney disease or is dealing with it or maybe is a caregiver,” said Joe McParland, this year’s Windsor/Essex County six-degree challenger.
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