Hello kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look

back at content from our earlier years.

Sometimes single stories, sometimes whole episodes, keep in mind that years ago people might

have awarded things differently than they would today.

As always, the title of the whole series, Risk, is itself a content warning.

This week a story that Paul Seabus first shared on the podcast in November of 2014, here's

Paul now with a story we call My Lifeline.

Hey guys, I was born with a genetic condition called Alport syndrome.

Alport is a very complicated thing.

It's very difficult to explain, but the gist of it is basically just that whereas most

people are born with two functioning kidneys, I was born with two balls of garbage.

That's what I had.

They just started out bad and got worse from there.

I was diagnosed with this condition when I was very young, I was about five years old.

The doctors found it and they said, you know what, there is not anything really that can

be done about this.

We just have to monitor your kidney function over time.

Eventually it will decrease to the point where you have to go on dialysis and then you

have to have a transplant.

That is a lot to lay on a five year old.

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