Elizabeth Gutierrez was 16 years old when she first got sick. Doctors found her kidneys were scarred and shriveled, and she was diagnosed with FSGS, a condition that impairs kidney function and can lead to failure.
Now 33 with a young daughter, she is needing her third kidney transplant.
“I was 16 years old, it was in December of ’08, and I had been feeling bad, like off and on for about 3 months, and then I think finally my mom realized like, ok, she really doesn’t feel good,” Gutierrez said…