13-year-old man struggling with kidney disease finds new home with teacher

Aurora, Colorado – The courses at AXL Academy in Aurora, Colorado, have been completed for over a week. But for Finn Lanning, professor of mathematics in college, there is a pupil whom he absolutely can not move, Damien, 13 years old. Damien said that Mr. Lanning was certainly one of his best teachers.

"When a teacher does not bother me again and again, it's better," he said. "Leave me alone, I'll leave you alone, I'll finish my job."

"He's smart and funny and he's always been a remarkable student." Then one day he came to see me and said: "I will not come back to school" Said Finn.

Finn made him sit down at a table and took an ear that day. He learned that Damien was in foster care, that he was suffering from kidney disease and that social services were failing to find a host family willing and able to provide for his medical needs he was forced to drop out of school and go to the hospital.

But here is the real kicker. The child desperately needs a transplant and often you can not get transplanted if you do not have a stable home to go back to after surgery.

"That hit me like a ton of bricks." I mean, you can not sit in front of someone you care about and hear him say something like that and find out that you can help, "said Finn.

This is how Finn became a foster parent. He had taken Damien, the dialysis needs and everything, even though, before this meeting in the hallway, he was a confirmed single who was looking forward to his childlessness.

"I never thought I could leave school and take one with me while surviving," he said.

Damien was there with him.

"I told myself" Yes! I go out of the hospital. "But I was like my math teacher – of all people," he said.

After six months, none of them would change anything. Although Damien said that he was not angry too much. He has already seen fairy tales collapse.

"It's a little bad to think about it, but some people do it.They will be happy with you one day and kick you out the next day," said Damien.

"Whether he believes it or not, it does not change the fact that I'm not going anywhere," Finn said.

In fact, Finn has announced his intention to adopt Damien as soon as possible. Meanwhile, and more importantly, because of Finn, Damien found himself on the transplant list and got his new kidney.

For a child in a state of disappointment, this is the best weekend of Father's Day, a new kidney and a father by his side. Although Finn said that the title of father would take some time to get used to it.

"This role has such a significance, no – and it's not that I do not want to do it, but it seems to me that you deserve it, in a way," he said. declared.

He deserved it and personified it.

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