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Erin Durga has known Pat Mertens for years. Pat is the custodian at an elementary school in Minnesota, and every day, he comes into Erin’s third-grade classroom to help her clean up. Over the years, the two of them have become friends, so it didn’t take long for Erin and her fellow educators to realize something wasn’t right with Pat.
Three days a week, he was leaving early. They weren’t sure why until they found out he was experiencing kidney failure. They quickly set up fundraisers to help him pay for his medical care, but Erin wanted to go even further! When she heard he needed a new kidney, she rushed to find out if she could be his donor.
She’s an angel . Erin Durga at Pat Mertens’ bed side. Picture: GoFundMe
Patrick Mertens needed a kidney, and, feeling desperate, his daughter, Kayla, posted a request on Facebook in January.
Patrick, 64, a school custodian, hadn’t bothered asking his coworkers at Kimball Elementary School, as he searched for a donor.
He didn’t want to inconvenience any of the teachers at the school, and he thought they had already done enough for him by setting up a fundraiser to support his dialysis.
But when Erin Durga, a thirdgrade teacher at the school, saw the Facebook post, she knew she wanted to help. So she reached out and after some tests learned that she was a match.
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.
Kindhearted teacher donates kidney to school janitor
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When Erin Durga learned that her school s 64-year-old custodian was in need of a kidney transplant, the third-grade teacher from Minnesota decided to donate her own without hesitation.
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