Most people feel they've had an amazing teacher in their lifetime, but what one teacher in Texas is willing to do for a student is just incredible.

Last December when Lisa Parker emailed her triplets' first-grade teacher to say the boys would be out of school it was so the family could hold a press conference to find a kidney donor for her six-year-old son Matthew.

Matthew weighed only 1 lb., 15 oz., when he and his brothers, Mark and Samuel, were born 4 ½ months early. At just three weeks old he had a blood infection and low blood pressure that led to kidney failure.

As Matthew's doctor told People magazine, he received a kidney transplant when he was two years old. Unfortunately about a year ago his body rejected that kidney – and he desperately needed a new one. But after all the antibodies he had developed over the years, it was going to be very hard to find a match.

Amazingly enough his own teacher, Lindsay Painter, decided she would get tested and soon found out she was a perfect match. And she quickly chose to donate her kidney to her young student.

Painter says she feels blessed that she has two healthy children of her own and thought that Matthew deserved to live a normal, healthy, active life.

And she will be helping him on the path to that healthy life. Their surgeries are scheduled for March 19th and Matthew is already looking forward to all the things he'll be able to after the transplant.

His mother says he's most excited to eat things like cheese pizza, ice cream and cereal with milk. And she adds that they've already signed him up for swimming lessons.

 

 

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