Danny Firch, a coal miner from Johnson County, is well-known in his community. But he's been living with Type 1 diabetes for nearly his entire life.

In September 2021, the American Kidney Foundation came out with new guidelines for the eGFR. The new guidelines removed the old practices of weighting Black Americans results due to creatinine levels. 

Debbie Patterson from Franklin, Kentucky, was in kidney failure dating back to 2010.

More than a hundred people attended the event described as a "celebration of life," including those whose lives were changed by organ donations. 

Oldham County EMS, which is operated by Baptist Health, says 2020 started off as a normal year for call volume before it took a nose dive in the first months of the pandemic.

Gladys Boone has polycystic kidney disease, a diagnosis she received more than 20 years ago after losing her newborn son to the same condition.