Samuel has an extremely rare kidney disease. An important renovation in the house is to be financed with an appeal for donations in order to relieve the family.
For the six-year-old Samuel Schleehuber from Aufhausen (Ostakbkreis) three years ago, the carefree childhood was suddenly over. The diagnosis: A very seldom pronounced form of the “nephrotic syndrome” – a kidney disease which, in the worst case, can lead to death. The kidneys lose proteins in the urine. There is water retention in the body, high blood pressure, high blood lipids and a greatly increased risk of thrombosis.
Since then, the family of four has been fighting everywhere. Medicines, infusions, constant hospital stays – sometimes in the intensive care unit – are bitter everyday life for the Schleehuber family. There is no longer any family or married life. “We just work,” says Samuel’s mother Yvonne Schleehuber. You can find out more about Samuel’s fate at the Schwäbische Post *.
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