Responding to a call on social media, an American teacher offered her kidney to a little girl who later turned out to be her student.
It is the story of a solidarity gesture and a happy coincidence. In the United States, a teacher saved the life of a five-year-old girl by donating a kidney, relates the BBC. Beth Batti decided to answer a family’s desperate call on Facebook.
Little Lyla has micropolyangiitis, a rare autoimmune disease that requires 12 hours of dialysis every day. Only a kidney transplant could allow him to survive. On the social network, his mother tries to find him a compatible donor.
“Like a Cesarean”
Sensitive to this call, the teacher decides to take exams to check her compatibility. “I knew I had to act rather than watch her suffer,” she explains to the channel. A few days later, the results indicate that Beth Batti may well donate her kidney to Lydia.
It is also at this time, around the month of September, that she learns that in her class, she will have as a student… the one to whom she will offer this kidney – a coincidence that makes you smile.
The teacher and her student underwent successful surgery on February 22. “It was the same level of pain as having a cesarean,” said the teacher. Both are recovering and should soon be back to school.
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-1730888646.jpg "Kidney donation while alive: “It was an act of love that I did for my sister”")
