‘I’m stronger than I think I am’ | Guilford County deputy shares battle with Stage 5 kidney failure

GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Guilford County Sheriff’s Office deputy battling Stage 5 kidney failure is searching for a living donor as she continues working and managing nightly dialysis treatments.

Rajanique Austin, who works as a courthouse deputy, said symptoms began weeks before her diagnosis — extreme fatigue and shortness of breath on her walk from the parking deck to the building. She initially dismissed them as signs of overworking herself.

The day she collapsed at work, the symptoms escalated sharply…

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