When we arrived at the hospital, the kind staff treated us gently while Kendall went through another series of blood tests. He explained that when a child gets a virus, the body produces antibodies to fight the infection. And sometimes those antibodies attach themselves to the body's own red blood cells. When these red blood cells go through the liver, the body takes one look at them and rejects them through the urine. In other words, Kendall's body was rejecting his own life-giving red blood cells.
Autoimmunity is simply another word for the body working against itself.
What a crazy quirk of nature. Obviously not part of God's plan. But here it was, attacking our son. Imagine your church as a human body. I have dedicated a significant portion of my life to help create healthy church bodies because so many are plagued by autoimmunity.