Ky’are Grant posted Instagram and Facebook videos of himself chatting up nurses as they poked and prodded him, attaching his body to a machine to filter toxins from his blood. The videos were intended to motivate others who, like him, were undergoing dialysis.
Deep down, though, he was depressed and anxious, Grant says, remembering those four-hour treatments, three times a week.
He was 19 at the time, in 2017, when he started posting those images of himself on social media. In a dialysis center where other patients were in their 50s, 60s or older, he was trying to project hope. He was trying to be a light.
He also was asking himself a hard question: “When is this going to end?”…