Teacher donates kidney to her student
A teacher in the US has gone above and beyond the call of duty, donating a kidney to her 8-year-old student in need.
After suffering for years from prune belly syndrome (a group of birth defects which affects the kidneys), Natasha Fuller is finally on her way to living a normal life, after her teacher Jodi Schmidt donated one of her kidneys to the young girl.
“She has been sick her whole life, so she feels like that’s normal for her, and I’m just excited to watch her actually feel good,” Schmidt told NBC News. The teacher says that discovering she was a match was “the best day ever”.
In a statement released on Facebook, the Fuller family said both donor and recipient were recovering well. “Thanks to Jodi’s amazing gift and support of her family, we are with Tasha as she recovers and gets stronger after the transplant,” they said. “Her doctors […] say that everything went well and that we could not have asked for a better organ.”
Thanks to Schmidt’s selfless gift, Fuller no longer has to rely on dialysis and can finally be as healthy and happy as she always wanted to be.
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