A Wisconsin First Grade teacher is giving one of her students a gift of life by donating a kidney. Oakfield Elementary School’s Jodi Schmidt recently discovered she was a match with her student Natasha Fuller who was diagnosed with Kidney Disease as a toddler.
“I’m so excited,” Schmidt says in a video about the donation. “I figured I’m O-negative blood and it did just come to me. I think we’re all brought to a certain place and time for a reason.”
Schmidt called in Fuller’s grandmom Chris Burelton to give her the news in person and presented her with a pink box that said, “It’s a Match” on the card.
“You? Oh my gosh!” Burelton says in a video of the presentation before bursting into tears. “Here I thought she was coming to school because she was naughty!”
When Natasha was brought in she thanked and hugged her teacher.
“I always felt like there was more in life that I should be doing,” Schmidt said about her decision to be an organ donor.
The transplant is not scheduled, yet. Natasha is still getting over an infection.
But in the meantime, the eight-year-old is dreaming of life after.
“I can swim, I can eat chocolate,” Natasha told ABC news. The two are bonding now and will share a greater bond after the surgery.
We’re wishing them both well.