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I've still got both kidneys, but one doesn't work, so I have to be careful not to drink too much, even water, and I have to keep myself as healthy as possible.

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office.

I was diagnosed with hypertension when I was 24, and I battled hypertension for about 10 to 12 years, and then I went to the doctor for something else, and he found that I had high levels of protein in my urine, and that's how I found out I had kidney disease.

You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it.

We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

I was on dialysis three times a week for four and a half hours each time.

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.