New York Times "Modern Love" Column on Kidney Disease

From The New York Times:

I was just 17, a typical college freshman concerned primarily with exploring my newfound freedom, my drinking skills and the boys in the dorm next-door, when one day I came home from sociology class with swollen ankles...

He took me to the hospital, where specialists examined me and explained that I had a kidney disease called glomerulonephritis and would have to start dialysis — a three-hour, three-days-a-week treatment to clean the waste out of my blood.

Sitting up in my paper-thin hospital gown, I said, “You know, this is really not a good time.”