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WATERLOO — Last year David Mahncke, a 29-yearold Cedar Falls native, was preparing for one of two possible treatments for kidney failure — dialysis or a kidney transplant. It had to be one or the other; Mahncke’s kidney was shutting down. At the age of 16, Mahncke was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy, a kidney disorder that occurs when the IgA — a protein that helps the body to fight infections — settles in the kidneys. Last
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April, he was told his kidney to camp, but always had to David Mahncke continued suffering. see if we can make it another was functioning at about 15 be in range of Iowa City,” to work his physical job as “Seemed like we were at month for dialysis, and with percent and was diagnosed Amanda Mahncke said. a mover, but his health was that point where it was just See LIFE, page 2 with stage 5 kidney failure. “Since I am so young and had health on my side I was able to go longer before beginning dialysis,” Mahncke said. Mahncke and his wife, Amanda, were told the wait could be two to five years for a cadaver kidney. This also meant the young couple could not travel more than four hours away from Iowa City in case a kidney became available. “It was hard. We really, really like to travel. We like
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