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.”
“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.
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