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WADSWORTH, Ohio, April 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Nothing is more important than your health. When you are seriously ill, nothing else matters. I know this firsthand. I was born with 1 kidney (about 1 in 10,000 people have this affliction). Normally, people can live a normal life. However, in my case, my high blood pressure wore the kidney out and I developed End Stage Renal Failure when I was 45 years old. I was in and out of the ICU and receiving hemodialysis 5 times per week.
Unfortunately, with kidney failure you develop all kinds of other problems like anemia, lethargy, bone brittleness, itching, and chills. The last 5 years I was constantly sleeping from exhaustion. At one point I had hypoxia and double pneumonia. A very scary combination. I was on my death bed. I was no longer making red blood cells, which resulted in needing a blood transfusion every 3 months. My quality of life was terrible. My life became meaningless. That s a hard pil