Kidney & Urinary

Each ebook collects 50 first-person accounts of one condition or treatment. Some begin with a blood test result and a stage number, and follow chronic kidney disease through diet changes, medication such as SGLT2 inhibitors and finerenone, and the long stretch of monitoring in between appointments. Others start with sudden pain and cover passing a kidney stone, or the recovery after a kidney is removed.

Dialysis and transplant have books of their own. People describe the first months on a machine, how they arranged work and holidays around it, the wait for a call, and what the first year after a transplant really felt like. There are also stories from living donors, written for anyone considering giving a kidney to someone they love. The bladder side of the collection covers overactive bladder, urinary incontinence, interstitial cystitis and repeated urinary tract infections — conditions that people rarely discuss but that shape every journey and every night. Every book downloads at once as a PDF and an EPUB.

Where to start

• Kidney Chronicles: CKD Living Stories — start here after a new diagnosis
• Stone Cold Relief: Kidney Stone Stories — for sudden pain and what came next
• Life on the Machine: Dialysis Experience Stories — the first months and the routine
• The Gift of Life: Kidney Transplant Stories — the wait, the call, the year after
• Giving a Kidney: Living Donor Stories — for families thinking about donating
• UTI and Me: Chronic UTI Recovery Stories — for infections that keep coming back