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Seventeen-year-old Crystal Enns was 14 when she stayed home from school one day in 2013 because of a bad nosebleed. Her parents thought something could be wrong, but never expected the news that their daughter had a rare kidney disease that would require a transplant.
Crystal told KTVT that the news that she would need a transplant wasn't what she wanted to hear and couldn't believe it would happen. But what followed may be even more unbelievable.
When her parents went in to be tested in order to possibly donate one of their own kidneys, it was revealed that both had developed kidney cancer. Her mother, Cristy, was found with a suspicious spot on her kidney while her father, Mark, had the cancer fully developed.
“They went back and did another MRI on me, and it had grown,” Cristy said. “The crazy thing was, it ended up being the same type of kidney cancer that Mark had.”
While the nosebleed led to the Ennses getting tested, their physician, Dr. Albert Quan, said there was no connection. “It happened to be a red herring that allowed us to figure this out because of other symptoms at that time,” Quan said.
He added that the disease that Crystal faces is “very, very rare” and that he has only seen it about two or three times in the past 20 years.
Luckily for Crystal, her aunt was able to donate a kidney in April, and the teenager is once again healthy and able to play music after two years of being unable to stand and sing in the choir.
Read more at KTVT.
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