National Kidney month is a time when we look at kidney disease and what we can do to curb it.
A local group is very much involved in that effort and they tell us kidney disease affects many more people than you might think.
15 years ago, Della Major was teaching math to a group of children when, without warning, she passed out in the classroom."Startling is not even the word for it. You had these kids screaming, trying to figure out what was going on with the instructor.""What was your reaction to that?"Death. Because all of the things happening to me at once, having all these tubes, barely able to breathe. I just knew my time was up.
She went on kidney dialysis, changed her diet, and exercised. Today, Della is a volunteer for the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois -- an ally of the Foundation's CEO, Jackie Burgess-Bishop. "It's personal for me because I lost my maternal grandmother to kidney failure when my mother was 14," Burgess-Bishop said. "One in three adults are at risk for kidney disease.""African Americans are four times more likely to get kidney disease. Latinos, the Hispanic population are three times more likely to get kidney disease," Burgess-Bishop said.
They urge all of us to get tested for kidney disease -- adding symptoms often don't appear until the ailment has progressed."If you find out that you have it, our goals to slow the progression if you are diagnosed," Burgess-Bishop said.
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