"It took me 12 years from the time I got diagnosed to the time I met another patient living with IgA nephropathy, and it has changed my life meeting other patients that are going through the same journey that I was going through. 

Everybody deals with IgA [nephropathy] little differently or effects everybody a little differently but just knowing that there's a community out there of people who understand what you're going through and how you feel physically and mentally makes all the difference in the world."