Matter of time before it manifested in Jay. Carrie Lyn said the disease ran through his family, so it was only a Shortly thereafter, the two moved to the Southeast, nearer his father and stepmother.Įventually, Jay showed symptoms of ADPKD, a genetic disorder in which cysts form in They married three months later-on the condition that they leave Burley. So when Jay visited family in Idaho, he talked then-19-year-old Carrie Lyn into a date and proposed soon afterward. The constraints of the place eventually got to her.
With support from Kennesaw State’s Campus Awareness, Resource and Empowerment (CARE) Services, the couple now have a stable place to live.īarron, scheduled to graduate on time in the spring, has her eye on completing a doctorateīarron’s answer to those observations is simple: “I can’t not do this.”Ĭarrie Lyn grew up in Burley, Idaho, a small town where she said girls were not encouraged to pursue higher education. Complications and expenses from the disease and resulting treatments cost the couple their house, and they lived in their car for a year and a half. To say Kennesaw State senior Carrie Lyn Barron has a lot of irons in the fire is anĪmong those who know her, the most popular observation is “I don’t know how she does it.”īarron, a non-traditional cellular, molecular and developmental biology major and student in KSU Journey Honors College, works in the lab of professor of biochemistry Jonathan McMurry, works two jobs and cares for her husband, Jay, who has autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Star student overcomes homelessness to excel
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