Anyone who spends any amount of time around small children will know how wild their imaginations are and how much they make things up, which is why one school teacher didn’t think anything of it when one of her students told her she was a ‘funny color’.
UK teacher Emma Gregson spent her days surrounded by a bunch of 9-year-olds and was used to hearing her students make strange comments, however, after looking in the mirror later that day, she realized that her skin and eyes were an odd yellow tint.
The 36-year-old decided to make an appointment with her doctor to make sure everything was fine. “I had always been fine and healthy before then so I was not unduly worried,” Gregson said. Besides the yellow tinted skin and eyes, Gregson had been feeling tired but figured it was work related. “I had just started my new job so I put the tiredness down to this.”
At first, Gregson’s doctor thought there might be a problem with her gall bladder, but scans at the hospital revealed her liver had completely failed because on autoimmune hepatitis. Without a transplant, she had only one week to live.
“It was very frightening to be told you only have seven days to live, I cried’ she said. “It is a strange situation to be in as everything is out of your control and you can’t do anything.” Luckily, doctors found a transplant just in time, and Gregson was hope recuperating just nine days after surgery.
“I talked about what happened to me and the transplant quite openly at school and explained it to people,” said Gregson, who is sharing her story to remind people of how important it is to be organ donors. “It was a bit of a shock for the pupils but they have been really good and are always very careful with germs and use hand gel as they know my immune system is lowered because of the anti-rejection medication I am on.”
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Teacher Found Out She’s Dying After Student Told Her She Looked Yellow is an article from: LifeDaily