This study aims at laying the foundation for building fundamental data and knowledge of the living
experiences of people with renal disease. Especially this study tries to deeply understand how and in what
ways people with renal disease experience disability in day-to-day life. The study also tries to draw the
implications for supporting them in the context of welfare and policy. For the study, 15 people with renal
disease took part in this study as participants. Semi-constructed questionnaire was used for depth interview
and phenomenological methodology constructed by Giorgy was employed for the analysis of data generated
by interviews with participants. At the first stage of analysis, 186 meanings were found, and 20 themes
were extracted from 149 from which 37 of irrelevant meanings were excluded. The 20 themes were analysed
and rearranged into 4 critical area: ‘fail of kidney’, ‘dialysis means...’, ‘Family and job: lost name’, ‘another
life following the disease’. In the ‘fail of kidney’, details of the reasons why the participants had renal
disease were introduced, and in the ‘dialysis means...’, it was described how hardly participants have
struggled for their lives with the disease. The part of ‘Family and job: lost name’shows in what ways
the families have collapsed in the middle of struggle with disease, and in the last part of ‘another life
following the disease’, the cases were introduced through which it was understood how participants have
confronted the difficulties. The part emphasized that support from family members and their fellows who
have same disease plays a key role in rebuilding a new life after having disease.