When Reid Alexander joined Tinder last summer, he never expected to meet his future husband and find a new kidney at the same time.“I had to grow up and take my health serious,” Alexander, who was was diagnosed with a renal failure disease when he was 17, tells his local news station.Alport syndrome is an inherited disease that attacks the glomeruli, which are the tiny filtering units inside the kidneys.
Currently, there is no specific treatment and doctors can only treat the symptoms and help slow the progression of kidney disease.Most men with Alport syndrome reach end-stage kidney disease and kidney failure by their 40s or 50s.In August 2020, Alexander decided to make a big change in his life.