He’s divorced from Ana, who’s pressuring him to sell the house, and their young adult daughter Laura died a few years ago in a car accident. Gabriel Ariz is a 52-year-old art professor who lives not far from the city yet surrounded by oak woods. “The Plimsoll line” is a maritime term indicating how low a cargo-laden ship can sit in the water without sinking here it’s used metaphorically to ask just how much one man can take. The Plimsoll Line by Juan Gracia ArmendárizĪs soon as I read Melissa’s review at The Book Binder’s Daughter, I knew I had to get this one. Both are a great support and source of information for me and my wider family. I must mention the excellent work done by the PKD Foundation in the States and the PKD Charity here in the UK. (If you took a high school genetics class, you might remember that with an autosomal dominant condition offspring have a 50% chance of inheriting the gene for the disease.) A few cousins of my generation also have PKD, and starting with my mom we’ve had a few successful kidney transplants in the family so far. My maternal grandmother had it – we’ve never definitively traced it further back than her – and four of her six children have it, too. But I’m honoring them with a reading list because several years ago I was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, a degenerative condition that runs in my family. Chances are you rarely have occasion to think about your kidneys. “The kidneys are like the Rodney Dangerfield of vital organs-they get no popular respect,” Vanessa Grubbs (whose memoir I discuss below) wryly comments.
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