What do your kidneys do?
The kidneys work as filters for your body, and their job is to remove excess minerals, waste and excess fluid from the body. Healthy kidneys filter more than 30 gallons of blood each day on average and help maintain a healthy balance of water, salts, and minerals, such as potassium and sodium in the blood.
The kidneys can also make hormones that help control blood pressure, keep your bones healthy and create red blood cells.
Unfiltered Words from CKD Warriors
I have learned that mental health is a very important factor that helps with living with renal disease. So I try to stay healthy mentally and physically.
I do not let my illness stop my daily life, I still work and do my daily duties as a wife, mother, and grandmother.
With planning, education, and support, anything is possible.
To my kidney family out there, be encouraged.
My kids expect daddy to be a superhero...I’m going to be who they need me to be.
[Managing my CKD] is still hard, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do it.
I can change the world. I can change people's lives by talking about [CKD].
I love my body and all it does for me. My body is strong. I am resilient. I am a warrior.
I have learned that mental health is a very important factor that helps with living with renal disease. So I try to stay healthy mentally and physically.
I do not let my illness stop my daily life, I still work and do my daily duties as a wife, mother, and grandmother.
With planning, education, and support, anything is possible.
To my kidney family out there, be encouraged.
My kids expect daddy to be a superhero...I’m going to be who they need me to be.
[Managing my CKD] is still hard, but that doesn’t mean I can’t do it.
I can change the world. I can change people's lives by talking about [CKD].
I love my body and all it does for me. My body is strong. I am resilient. I am a warrior.
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