19 Dec 2020
A Minnesota third-grade teacher saved a school janitor’s life by donating one of her kidneys after she read a Facebook post pleading for someone to “help save a life.”
Custodian Pat Mertens’s daughter put out a call on Facebook pleading for someone to donate a kidney to her father.
Erin Durga, the third-grade teacher at Kimball Elementary School, had befriended Mertens from their evening talks while she finished her work and he cleaned the classroom, the
Washington Postreported.
When Durga learned that Mertens needed a kidney transplant, she immediately told her husband she planned to donate.
“About 30 seconds into reading this, I turn to my husband, and I said, Pat needs a kidney, it needs to be O-type blood, and I think it’s going to be me,” she said.