For 30 years, Christy Crosier, a local business owner, has lived with kidney disease.

Crosier, 47, was diagnosed with kidney disease as a teenager.

“They seem to think I was born with it, but it wasn’t discovered until I was a teenager,” Crosier said. “I had several biopsies on my kidneys. They gave me steroids for a long period of time. That didn’t seem to help.”

But she ate right, exercised and worked hard at maintaining her kidney function. Still, kidney function tends to decrease as people get older, and she was no exception. And just doing normal things put stress on her body and kidneys.

She had difficult pregnancies with both of her daughters. They were born prematurely and very small, Crosier said.

But it was a hysterectomy that sent her body into a tailspin. Her kidney functi

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