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Title: Big sister on “Modern Family” reveals she has kidney disease
Post by: okarol on May 14, 2012, 09:21:13 AM
Haley Dunphy, the big sister on “Modern Family,” Dunphy reveals she has kidney disease. Her dad recently gave her a kidney. Watch her interview with Good Morning America. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/modern-familys-sarah-hyland-kidney-disease-16341599
Title: Re: Big sister on “Modern Family” reveals she has kidney disease
Post by: bleija on May 14, 2012, 12:01:10 PM
wow thats freaqkin crazy!!! love tyhis show, never thought in a 100 years she had kidney failure...
Title: Re: Big sister on “Modern Family” reveals she has kidney disease
Post by: MooseMom on May 14, 2012, 12:19:08 PM
I had absolutely no idea!  This show is brilliant, and it would never have occurred to me that Haley was so ill.  I wonder why it took so long for her to be transplanted?  What do you think the doctors were waiting for?  It just seems like she's been suffering needlessly for so long.  Typical....they tell you only bits of the story.

Anyway, I'll be eager for next season of Modern Family!  I guess CKD and dialysis doesn't really fit into a comedy. ::)
Title: Re: Big sister on “Modern Family” reveals she has kidney disease
Post by: Poppylicious on May 14, 2012, 01:58:35 PM
I guess CKD and dialysis doesn't really fit into a comedy. ::)
It doesn't, but wouldn't it be lovely to get a (however brief) realistic take on it, rather than a shoddy Desperate Housewives take on it! 

That's so amazing ... I too never would have guessed she was ill.  Bless her.  (And her dad.)
Title: Re: Big sister on “Modern Family” reveals she has kidney disease
Post by: Brightsky69 on May 14, 2012, 05:50:20 PM
I wonder if she ever had to do dialysis. Seems like the doctors were waiting till the last minute...transplant before she had to go on dialysis.
Title: Re: Big sister on “Modern Family” reveals she has kidney disease
Post by: rsudock on May 15, 2012, 11:43:57 AM
From what I read she avoided dialysis...

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