Colorado Springs man gets kidney transplant — thanks to Facebook and an old classmate

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – David VanDinter was diagnosed with a hereditary kidney disease when he was 21.“I was active duty, Army, and my sister had been diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease a few years earlier. They found a cyst on my kidney. I did a lot of research on polycystic kidney disease (PKD) and found out it [typically] progresses over decades as opposed to years.”So he felt like he had time, felt the invincibility of youth. Life went on as planned with his military career, becoming a nurse, getting married, having kids.When he was 32, the disease made itself a bit more known when David discovered he had cerebral aneurysms.“It’s part of the PKD process,” he told me.But a craniotomy went well and he proceeded through the rest of his 30s and into 40s as normal. He got a master’s degree, toured the globe with his wife, enjoyed his sons.“We had a perfect life everything was spectacular and then all of a sudden it’s taken away from you.”It was as he approached 50 that things started changing.“You start noticing a little bit more that your kidney function is kind of going down a little bit.”Going down a little bit
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