Hi Heather, welcome to Kidney Community 
Sadly, your story about how you found out about your diagnosis is one lots of our users can share.
There is some information on this thread that you might find helpful: Advice on Kidney disease stage 3 - Living with kidney disease / Recently diagnosed - Kidney Community
At Kidney Research UK we offer a free Kidney Kit which you might find helpful too, it has some information and a couple of recipes. If you ask for a digital kit you’ll get it straight away.