I was diagnosed with Stage 3a CKD about 5 years ago when I was 72-73 and was told I could not qualify for a transplant. As many contributing to this thread may know, I also have type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases. After a round of shingles I went from Stage 3a to Stage 5 and had to undergo hemodialysis for a while but good medical management and my strict vegetarian renal diet helped me recover some renal function and suspend dialysis and despite a fairly recent diagnosis of gastroparesis and further diet changes I have moved from Stage 5 to Stage 4 then back to Stage 3b. IDK how long this will last but I'm ok for now. I have lab work next week and am interested to find out if the improvement continues or at least is stable.

Thanks for mentoring, Cheryl! Mayo Connect has been extremely helpful to me.