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Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

January 14, 2025 Living With Chronic Kidney Disease

Often silent in its early stages, and widely misunderstood. What chronic kidney disease really involves, why early action matte...

A guide to our Kidney & Urinary shelf — ten anthologies of first-person testimony, from CKD, dialysis, and transplant to ki...

A second chance measured in freedom from dialysis. What a kidney transplant is really like, from the wait through surgery to li...

Life-sustaining, demanding, and life-reshaping. What dialysis is really like day to day, the different types, and how people bu...