NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (CBS 2) — It’s a lesson in helping one another. Two teachers at a New Rochelle high school are refusing to let a failed kidney transplant dampen their spirits.
One woman is sick and the other tried to answer her call for help. Karen Tucker needs a new kidney.
“It’s very difficult. I don’t like to ask anybody for help for anything anyway and then having to ask somebody for an organ?” Tucker told CBS 2′s Lou Young.
Tucker is an English teacher and Alexi Brock teaches art. They were not close friends until recently, but for Brock, a kidney was not too much to ask.
“We’re both moms, we both teach so I know she needs the energy for teaching. I know she wants to be there for her two girls. I don’t know, I just had this weird feeling it was going to be me, so I did it,” Brock said.
Because Tucker’s kidney disease is genetic, she couldn’t find a donor within her own family. So to find a willing match at work was something of a godsend.
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