Puppies and Kitties!

I decided to volunteer at the local animal shelter. Recently my boyfriend and I recued a baby kitty stuck in a metal joist. I wanted to keep baby kitty so badly but I already have two cats in our household and my boyfriend can't keep animals in his apartment. I think he liked baby kitty too. We had to take baby kitty to the league for animal welfare. They post pictures of which animals are for adoption so I can see him whenever I want and now that I volunteer I can visit him as well (I think it's a him.)

Do I have it?

Sometimes I wonder if I have inherited PKD. There is a 50% chance that I have it. I also have a brother, there is a 50% chance he has it. We haven't been tested yet. We are both in our twenties. We both did volunteer to donate to our dad but they decided to go forward with a third donor, because of our family history of the disease. We show no symptoms now. I guess for insurance purposes you don't want to know if you have it or not until you are settled in a stable job and have life/health insurances. Or maybe they charge more? I don't know. Sometimes if I have a weird pain in my back, I think it could be a cyst growing. Then I think I am obsessing. I try to eat healty and drink lots of water. I already ready watch my sodium and protein intake, just in case. I also read about any pkd material I can get my hands on.

First Blog

This blog is about my family's experience with PKD. My grandpa had PKD. My dad and uncle have inherited it. PKD is Polycystic kidney disease. Which means many cysts on your kidneys, it causes the kidneys to slowly decrease their filtering function and eventually they fail. A person with PKD would then start dialysis or get a kidney transplant.