Anyone else deal with any potentially LIFE-threatening conditions or injuries?

I'm in my 40s so I'm not really old or anything but I got a rare genetic condition from a relative on my dad's side that no one knew about until it was too late. I was on that HELLISH peritoneal dialysis for a few years and then on equally/more HELLISH hemodialysis for a few months after that before I got a kidney.

I found a kidney donor on social media. Her name is Nicole and she's 15 years younger than me! She's from Northwest Indiana, I'm from Missouri, & the kidney transplant was at University of Illinois at Chicago hospital! A picture of Nicole with her partner is below! A TRUE angel! It was LIVING HELL to find a living donor! It took YEARS and I had around 2 dozen people LIE & stab me in the back before I found my Angel Nicole!

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Congrats on the kidney transplant, SH! You definitely have been through hell and back. No-one can know how hellish it is, unless they have been through something similar themselves.

I spent a good part of 5th Grade hospitalized. I had very weak lungs, and had acute asthma attacks, pneumonia, bronchitis, and an enlarged spleen. It was the year from hell.

Not me , but one of my aunts had septic shock as a result of pneumonia

Congrats on the kidney transplant! Yes in 2017 I was sick for months. First I contracted a serious strep infection that triggered my medicine to stop working. My medicine is for arthritis and psoriasis so I ended up bedridden on and off for months and hospitalized for erythrodermic Psoriasis which can be deadly (and basically triggers many issues. I had to be admitted to the emergency room because of this. Then on top of it I developed a severe kidney infection that had it gotten worse would have required removal but luckily healed. So my doctor got me medicine and I started to get better but I still couldn't walk much for months afterwards and was up all night burning, itching that was painful and peeling skin. Here's a link about erythrodermic psoriais: https://www.everydayhealth.com/psoriasis/symptoms/erythrodermic-psoriasis/.

Luckily they switch my medicine and have been in remission for a year.

My mom has had to deal with quite a few of these.