Elementary School Teacher Donates Kidney To Her School’s Custodian

By Kelsie Smith, CNN
(CNN) — Third-grade teacher Erin Durga says chills ran through her body the moment she learned a school custodian needed a kidney donation. She had an unshakable feeling that she would be the match to save him.
Durga and school custodian Pat Mertens started working at Kimball Elementary School in Kimball, Minnesota, in the same year, 2011.
For the past nine years, their families have been well acquainted. Durga’s children called Mertens “Papa” as they