Student back in school, with gym teacher who gave her kidney
Source: AP
DETROIT (AP) — An 18-year-old returned to her Detroit high school Tuesday with a new kidney, donated by her gym teacher.
Students threw confetti as A'Ja Booth entered the West Side Academy, walking arm-in-arm with Nadirah Muhammad down a red carpet in the gym. Muhammad, 39, gave Booth the kidney for transplant in December.
"I'm blessed and I'm thankful," Booth told the students, fighting back tears.
For four years, she left school early three days a week to undergo kidney dialysis. She wrote a book about her experience, "My Dialysis Journey," which led Muhammad to make the offer, The Detroit News reported.
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West Side Academy senior A'Ja Booth, middle, smiles next to her teacher Nadirah Muhammad, left, and Dr. Jason Denny, of Henry Ford Health System and Henry Ford Transplant Institute, during a rally for Booth at the school Tuesday, May 19, 2015, in Detroit. In December an operating crew at Henry Ford Hospital removed Muhammad's kidney and rushed it to Children's Hospital three miles away, where Booth received it. Denny operated on Booth. (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press via AP)
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