When Akron resident DeAngelo Guest was diagnosed with a kidney disease in June 2023, he didn’t know that getting healthy would mean losing his apartment.
About two months after he started dialysis, he lost his job as a customer success manager for an engineering company because of how long he needed for recovery from treatments.. Four months later, he had completely exhausted his savings.
“I was so stressed out,” said Guest, who has been diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, or permanent kidney failure. “… I could see the turmoil coming and the downhill spiral coming.”…