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Stephen was born with a rare birth defect called a Horshoe Kidney. He only had one kidney when most people have two. Stephen was diagnosed with diabetes in his late twenties. He is 46 years old now, which means that his body has been dealing with the strain of this disease for about 20 years. It has been so difficult for his only kidney, that he was diagnosed with Renal Failure or Kidney Failure in 2006.

To keep Stephen alive for the past two years, doctors have been using two different kinds of dialysis. First they tried pertioneal dialysis. When that made other aspects of diabetes worse doctors switch him to hemo-dialysis. Neither of these treatments can cure Stephen or save his kidney. They can't even heal anything. All the do is keep him alive long enough to wait for a new kidney that he can get through a kidney transplant.