EMERSON—Steve Setteducati has spent years helping families plan for the future. Now, facing kidney failure, he is asking for help himself — something he says does not come easily.
“I just don’t like to be the one asking for help. I never was in my lifetime,” said Setteducati, a former Emerson mayor and CEO of New Concepts for Living, a nonprofit serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Setteducati, who turns 65 this month, has been living with a progressive kidney disease for about two years. His condition has worsened to the point that he said he expects to begin dialysis within weeks…