About Us

If you’ve found your way here, you are family, friend, or someone who was searching on PKD. Welcome to The Lemonade Stand, where we are doing our best to make something palatable out of the lemons we’ve been handed by life.

We’re a happily married couple, living in the delightful East Texas countryside with our SPCA-special dog, coping with the melodrama that surrounds End Stage Renal Disease.

Our Lemonade Tree

In the joys of genetic soup, I got the gene for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. My father died of complications from the disease at the young age of 63, and this summer I moved into Stage 5 of the disease.

This blog is meant to be an outlet for both of us, to allow us to say the things we’re not always able to give voice to and to think out-loud about where we are and where we are going.

Come sit under the trees and have a glass of lemonade with us.

Our Lemonade Tree
3 Responses to “About Us”
  1. Keshia says:
    November 8, 2008 at 1:45 pm

    Hi,

    I just wanted to offer you some words of encouragement. Based on your posts, you sound like a very strong person and, like all of us, you may get frustrated at times. Please remember God is always in the room with you–even when you are angry. Cast all your worries on him and your faith will get you through any obstacle–of that I’m sure.

    Doctors can only tell you what is possible based on what they have “practiced” previously, while GOD knows everything is possible.

    Keep praying and see how great God is.

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    Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts in the kidneys. When cysts form in the kidneys, they are filled with fluid. PKD cysts can profoundly enlarge the kidneys while replacing much of the normal structure, resulting in reduced kidney function and leading to kidney failure. When PKD causes kidneys to fail—which usually happens after many years—the patient requires dialysis or kidney transplantation. About one-half of people with the most common type of PKD progress to kidney failure, also called end-stage renal disease (ESRD). In the United States, about 600,0001 people have PKD, and cystic disease is the fourth leading cause of kidney failure. Two major inherited forms of PKD exist: 1 Grantham JJ, Nair V, Winklhoffer F. Cystic diseases of the kidney. In: Brenner BM, ed. Brenner & Rector’s The Kidney. Vol. 2. 6th ed. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company; 2000: 1699–1730.

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