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Celeste Marsh and Pernell Caster, who will each present process surgical procedure Friday as Marsh is donating her kidney to Caster.
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From left, Cathy, Pernell and Grady Caster are pictured collectively as a household. Pernell will likely be present process surgical procedure Friday to obtain a brand new kidney. The kidney donor, Celeste Marsh, is Grady’s instructor at Robert H. Jackson Elementary College.
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Celeste Marsh and Pernell Caster, who will each present process surgical procedure Friday as Marsh is donating her kidney to Caster.
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FREWSBURG — It’s loads that instructor Celeste Marsh offers training to the kids she is liable for at Robert H. Jackson Elementary College.

Nevertheless, Marsh will likely be going above and past her function as an educator Friday as she will likely be donating a kidney to a dad or mum of one of many kids she teaches.

The kidney Marsh is donating goes to Pernell Caster, who has handled kidney illness his total life and began dialysis a 12 months in the past. Caster is the daddy of Grady Caster, a 12-year-old Marsh teaches.

“Grady deserves to have a wholesome daddy and I needed to assist him have a wholesome daddy,” Marsh, who’s 59 years previous, stated about why she is donating one in every of her kidneys.

Marsh, a Jamestown resident, stated she heard about Caster’s well being points and thought to herself, “Possibly I might assist them.”

From left, Cathy, Pernell and Grady Caster are pictured collectively as a household. Pernell will likely be present process surgical procedure Friday to obtain a brand new kidney. The kidney donor, Celeste Marsh, is Grady’s instructor at Robert H. Jackson Elementary College.
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“After which I assumed, ‘I couldn’t do this’ after which I stated, ‘Why not,”‘ she stated. “I reached out to the household on June eight and known as to allow them to know I’m going to attempt to be a kidney donor, and that’s how it began.”

Caster stated he was “floored” by the decision he acquired from Marsh saying she wish to donate a kidney to assist him.

“It was overwhelming,” the Frewsburg stated. “I had met her about six months earlier than and briefly talked about (his kidney points), however one thing had triggered in her thoughts that she needed to donate or not less than see if she was suitable.”

Marsh stated she went by a sequence of checks at UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa. — which is the place the surgical procedure will likely be happening — and in Jamestown earlier than she was instructed her well being was ok to be a donor. She stated it was emotional when she was instructed she was suitable to donate her kidney on to Caster.

“Pernell and I don’t have matching blood varieties, however our blood sort is suitable,” she stated. “My coronary heart was crammed with pleasure to listen to our blood varieties had been suitable. I by no means thought it might work that means.”

Marsh stated she was going to donate a kidney even when it didn’t go on to Caster as a result of it might have helped him transfer up the donor record.

“I’d have finished the donation anyway so long as it might have helped him in the long term,” she stated.

Marsh — who’s married and has three kids, Aaron, Kaylee and Gregory, and two grandchildren, Dominic and Chad — stated her household, together with her daughter-in-law Karley, was stunned once they first heard the information that she needed to donate a kidney. She stated, since that preliminary shock, her household has been very supportive.

“They stated, ‘Mother, if that is what you need to do, we’ll help you,’ and I knew that’s what they’d say,” she stated. “My mother and sister have additionally been two of my largest supporters as effectively.”

Marsh stated she is anxious “in a great way” and desires to get the kidney donation finished so Caster’s well being can enhance.

“We simply need Pernell to be wholesome,” she stated.

Caster stated his restoration time after the surgical procedure will likely be eight months to a 12 months as a result of the medical doctors must “knock my immune system down so I don’t reject her kidney.”

“My ideas are, ‘I’m scarred.’ Anyone going by one of these surgical procedure could be loopy to not be. I’ve good religion within the lord and he has gotten us this far, and he’ll get me by this,” he stated.

Caster stated his spouse, Cathy, has been a trooper since he went on the donation record in January and began dialysis a 12 months in the past. He stated if it wasn’t for Grady he wouldn’t be about to obtain a brand new kidney.

“Celeste stated, ‘Grady’s in want of his dad. If one thing occurs to his dad and I didn’t do one thing I wouldn’t really feel proper,”‘ Caster stated. “I tribute all of this to my son, Grady.”

Caster stated he’s permitting his story to be instructed in hopes it is going to shine a lightweight on the necessity for individuals to donate a kidney. He believes there are 15 Chautauqua County residents on the Kidney Connection web site — kidneyconnection.org — who wants a kidney.

“That isn’t even counting many others who aren’t on the record,” he stated. “We’ve lots of people in Chautauqua County able to donating. There are lots of people who’re going to perish early if somebody doesn’t step up and assist.”



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