A 13-year-old’s kidney was failing, then a stranger stepped in: “I don’t think there was a dry eye in the room”
When Elias Manolis started experiencing extreme fatigue early last year, his parents were alarmed, but not surprised. The 13-year-old from Long Island, New York, had been born with ureterovesical junction obstruction, a rare congenital disease, where a blockage between the ureter and bladder causes urine to back up into the kidney. The condition can cause pain, infections and fevers. Rita Manolis said her son struggled with "a lot of infections, a lot of hospital visits, lots of […]








