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 surgeries” over the years.
His symptoms led to limits on his diet and physical activity. As he grew, he often missed school and couldn’t see his friends often. But still, the level of fatigue he reached in February 2025 was unusual. “He didn’t have the energy to do things normal kids would do, like getting up to go to school,” Rita Manolis said. “Staying in school all day would be a mission for him. He’d come home just completely drained.”
Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
1 John 3:2-3
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