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“Brittany was giving us one other day, one other minute, one other hour,” Shelley Justason stated, with 9-year-old Hayley including “one other future for me.”
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. — Through the pandemic, lots of households have turned to digital studying, however a Kimmswick instructor has saved the lifetime of certainly one of her college students many occasions over after they fashioned a bond via the pc.
“If any of my college students wanted something, I’d do what I may for them. Hayley wanted me, so right here I’m,” Kimmswick instructor Brittany Perschbacher stated.
Perschbacher began instructing with Missouri Digital Academy three years in the past, not understanding the task would change the course of her life to save lots of one other’s.
“After we obtained informed that in November that Hayley wanted a coronary heart, we did not know the place we had been going to finish up,” Shelley Justason stated with daughter Hayley on her lap, the 9-year-old including “they did not know in the event that they had been going to lose me.”
Born with two hearts and a variety of well being issues, Hayley has been via 15 surgical procedures and remains to be on organ donation lists for a coronary heart, liver, and kidney.
When Perschbacher misplaced her grandfather to COVID final yr, she realized that she may turn out to be a plasma donor, giving Hayley the present of time.
“Brittany was giving us one other day, one other minute, one other hour,” Shelley Justason stated, Hayley including “one other future for me.”
“If I did not do that, would Hayley nonetheless be right here in the present day? I do not take into consideration that as a result of it breaks my coronary heart. The world wants Hayley,” Perschbacher stated.
Perschbacher now spends about an hour and a half each month making a donation, however in November she’s going to take it a step farther.
“I informed Shelley, ‘If she will be able to settle for my plasma, I do know you are able to do dwelling donors for kidneys. Adults can donate to youngsters. Let’s attempt to get me examined as a result of if my plasma works, then perhaps simply perhaps my kidney will work,'” Perschbacher stated of her plans to turn out to be a kidney donor.
Perschbacher was initially scheduled to take the kidney exams earlier this summer time however delta circumstances spiked suspending appointments.
She is optimistic that they are going to match, persevering with the bond.
“We’re bonded for all times and I am not giving up on her. I am prepared to do no matter it takes to assist this woman, and the loopy factor is we have by no means even met in particular person,” Perschbacher stated.
“There’s by no means gonna be sufficient phrases to say ‘thanks,'” Justason stated.
A GoFundMe account as been set as much as assist Hayley’s household fund her ongoing medical costs.
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