Why do you become a teacher? It’s not just the love for children that push people to pursue a teaching career. Those who decide to dedicate a part of their lives to teaching do so, very often, being driven by nobler motivations. Teaching a subject is perhaps the tip of the iceberg. Other people, on the other hand, aim to offer students something much more valuable: support, help, experience. This is also the case of a wonderful teacher from Missouri, named Robin Mach, who took her love for her job to another level, helping a little student who was going through a great scale of life.
Kayleigh Kulage, 5, was born prematurely at just 26 weeks and weighed less than a kilogram. The girl spent 158 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, fighting for her life. Kayleigh has been on dialysis since birth, a treatment for people with kidney failure. If it weren’t for all those tubes around her, Kayleigh would look like a normal girl: she’s always with a smile on her face, she never complains of pain, and her mother considers herself lucky to have such a baby.
Robin Mach is a teacher who teaches at Kayleigh’s school, knows the girl quite well, and has often traveled to teach her at home. She noticed with her own eyes the little girl’s situation and the problems she has to face every day. The connection with Kayleigh became stronger and stronger, and the teacher decided to do something that could radically change the child’s life, allowing her to go to school and not be forced to surround herself with tubes and all sorts of appliances. monitoring. As a result, the woman decided to donate a kidney. After a surgical operation that kept the parents speechless and after endless waiting days – necessary to verify the success of the transplant – now the child seems to have a new life. She will be able to go to school, swim, go to the beach, experience everything she could not do before.
Not everyone can donate a kidney or is not willing to donate, but Robin did and, with all her heart, gave priority to the well-being of a child in great need of a miracle. How lucky are you to meet such people?