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Kidney Fauilure, need everyday help

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Hello, My Name is Colby Hans. As of now I am 26 years old and I have Chronic Renal Failure.  It all began around 11-12 years ago. I was a very fit, and active teenager at the time. Spending most of my days and time learning to skateboard, play guitar, and hang out with the friends I thought I had. I'm a very dedicated person, when I picked up skateboarding it was all I ever did. Anywhere and everywhere I would skateboard with my friends. Skateboarding and Friends were my passion, it was all I ever really knew. One day, a few days before my 16th Birthday I began showing symtoms of constant headaches, and throwing up everyday. It was horrible. I went to the ER nearby where I live and they thought i was just some teenager staying out to late doing things i shouldn't be doing. They judged me based off my apearrance, gave me medicine and sent me on my way home.  A few days later, I turned 16, and it was the worst birthday I have ever had, I was throwing up all day, my vision became doubled, and I could hardly breathe laying down. I decided to return to the Hospital nearby and thats when I found out that only about 10% of both kidneys were able to function. I found out I had chronic renal failure, which in my case was very rare because of my age. Renal Failure usually happens to new borns or seniors. I was also diagnosed with High Blood Pressure. They were shocked to see a healthy active male my age with kidney failure. I was told I should have been in a Coma at that time, and they were suprised I was able to walk myself into the hospital. From there I was transfered to a hospital that could help, I spent a month in there on a dialysis machine until I was able to hook myself up to the machine at home. PD took alot out of my life, for a whole year i was always sitting at home, never able to leave at night to go to stay with a friend. I had to be hooked to that machine twice a day. Once during the day, and then again at night. This dialysis lifestyle stopped me from being able to skateboard, I couldn't hang out with my friends for very long, and it killed me socialwise.  A full year goes by, and its July 30th 2005. I get on my computer to talk to people on messanger, as that was  all I really had at the time. A message comes through about one of my friends who I grew up with and just saw the other night and gave him a hug, had hit his head while skateboarding from point A to point B. where ever he was going. This killed me, all I could think about was him, and pray he would be okay. August 5th 2005. His mother pulled life support because the Dr's told her it would have taken a miracle to bring him back. Her only child and she had to let him go. What was suprising was that he was a match for me. August 5th 2005, I recieved the transplant, I recieved an organ from someone I knew my etire life. And then He was gone. I was alone. All the friends I had and thought I knew left me, stopped talking to me. Wouldn't answer my messages or calls. I pretty much lost everyone I thought I knew, I thought they would be there for me. I was wrong. His Transplant though gave me a chance to relive what could almost be a normal life. Alot of those years was spent alone in my room, depressed, playing video games, and going on chat rooms just to find someone who would talk to me, God must have been keeping his eye on me, as I met someone in a chat room who lived In Ohio. I'm from California, so you can see the distance we faced, We talked for years, until one day I decided it was time to visit her. I spent 2 weeks there in Ohio, and I found the one person who would always be there for me. I left back to Cali, and six months later she moved out her to be with me. She lived with me, and dealt with the fact that I lived with my mom. My mom and I rarely get along, even though we love eachother dearly. We just cant be in the same house together.  My now Fiance and I moved out, went to ohio so she could live near her family. Our Independant living did not last long. As around June 2014, my kidney transplant has begun failing again and I am now on Hemodialysis. I have to do it Monday, Wednsday, and Friday. I have what they call a fistula in my arm, which restricts me from doing any lifting of heavy objects, and sometimes even daily task seem more like a pain than a chore. I can't work as dialysis makes me tired, out of energy, and sometimes sick. I have chronic headaches, which stop me sometimes from being able to enjoy even the simplest of things. I am now back in California so I can recieve dialysis treatment.  It also means my Fiance and I are back living with my mom. My Mom quit her job due to labor issues her work had, And now my Fiance is the only one doing the best she can every single day to support not just me, but my mom as well. With my high blood pressure and being on dialysis has really raised my stress level through the roof. I need Help, I need help to help my Fiance because she does so much and ask for nothing in return. I know she is just as stressed as I am. Even more so with bills, needing food and gas money so i can make it to my dialysis treatment, This money wont just help with bills, food, and transport. But it will help with so much more than that. It will be a sigh of relief. A chance to relax and be able to take in a deep breath of relaxation. As my Fiance and I truly need it. She is my world, and I wish I could give it to her. It kills me deeply inside knowing I can't give her what a normal person can. She deals with the fact knowing we can never go anywhere out of california. We can't travel anywhere unless its the weekend. She is my Heroine. Knowing the lifestyle I have to live, and She never leaves my side. Please help me!! 
Since I lost skateboarding, I recently picked up Yo-yoing. It has been 6 months so far with it, and I have put the same passion and dedication to it like I did with skateboatding. Yo-yoing has become my lifestyle, and It has helped me a lot..
  If any Healthy individual would like to be an Organ Donor. Please write to me. My Blood type is B Positive.  My wait time is 5-7 years,
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Colby Hans
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Wheatland, CA

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