When a doctor told Karyn Waxman, “You have some funny looking kidneys,” she didn’t think much of the statement.
The doctor described her kidneys as too big and not in the right place, but with the caveat that not every kidney is anatomically correct and shaped like its namesake, the kidney bean.
Waxman is 69 years old now, but she was 43 then. She’d been in the hospital for a week for what she thought was just a bad urinary tract infection. She was given an antibiotic, and the infection cleared up…