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“It definitely changes who you are as a person, not fully, but just [with] everything you have to go through, all the things people probably won’t think about, … there’s certain things that I probably wouldn’t have now,” Justin said. “I have a therapist now, [and] I probably wouldn’t have done that without going through this, because I probably wouldn’t have got to that point where I was like, ‘I need help. I don’t know what’s going on.’” He said he initially distanced himself from those around him.

“I didn’t know who was really there or not, but seeing who’s got a shirt, seeing who’s been to the foundation and stuff, I think I’ve kind of figured out who’s really there,” Justin said. “You need support going through stuff like this. I’m not super social, but I can say for a fact that without my mom and dad and all the family members around taking me to and from dialysis and just doctor’s appointments and stuff like that, [I] wouldn’t be