Twenty-one-year-old Bastrop County native Kendall Alvarado was born with Polycystic Kidney Disease, and she has suffered with the side affects her entire life. Five years ago, Kendall, who is now studying nursing, had a kidney transplant, but now the kidney has stopped functioning, and in order to be well enough to achieve her dream of becoming a nurse, Kendall needs another kidney. Polycystic kidney disease is a genetic disorder that causes cysts to grow inside the kidneys. Unlike the usually harmless kidney cysts that can form in the kidneys later in life, polycystic kidney disease can change the shape of the ...