Routine Check-Up
Recently, Samantha’s GP had asked her to come in for some blood tests after a routine check-up showed that she had high blood pressure with no obvious cause. “I think you need to head to A&E as soon as possible,” her doctor told her. “Your kidneys might be failing.”
Routine Check-Up
Grim Diagnosis
She was 34 at the time. And her doctor was right, her kidneys were failing. They had been slowly for several years and no one had a clue. Tests showed Samantha had a disease named IgA Nephropathy, also called Berger’s disease. Over time, a problem with an antibody named IgA had caused damage to the filters of the kidney which strip the blood of toxins and excess liquid and turns it into the urine. The worst part was that there is no cure. Samantha’s life suddenly began to fall apart right in front of her.
Grim Diagnosis