‘Jesus chose me for you’: Henry County teacher receives kidney from coworker
Her days consisted of chemotherapy and dialysis. But after a coworker made a selfless act, she is getting a second chance.
NaKisha Wynn, a teacher at Woodland Elementary School in Stockbridge, has battled kidney disease for six years.
“(NaKisha) would come here, work all day long, take care of her kids, do dinner and then go do dialysis til 10 at night and then start it all over again the next morning,” coworker Tiffany Austin told Channel 2 Action News.
Doctors told Wynn she would probably have to wait five years for a kidney match.
So Austin, a social worker at the school, knew she had to step in.
As the only match out of many who offered to help Wynn, Austin donated her kidney.
Taking a creative approach, she told Wynn the good news by creating a sign that read, “Jesus chose me for you.”
When a teacher (on right) thought she might die bc she needed a kidney so bad, a social worker (on left) at the same school said God told her to give up a kidney. These 2 ladies had me in tears as I listened to their journey. Story today on Ch2 pic.twitter.com/4csVqoqk3k
— Tyisha Fernandes (@TyishaWSB) June 14, 2019
“I screamed,” Wynn told Channel 2. “The after-school parents looked at me like I was crazy.”
The two, close friends now, will return to school in the fall with one less worry.
This photo was taken right before a social worker donated a kidney to colleague at Woodland Elementary in Stockbridge. They were just coworkers then, now they’re the best of friends. You have to hear them tell their story at 4:56pm on Ch2 pic.twitter.com/b9OgaF31mf
— Tyisha Fernandes (@TyishaWSB) June 14, 2019
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