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Ex - Mich. Teacher Gives Kidney to Student February 8, 2003 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 2:57 p.m. ET ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Ron Mercier used to give Amy McCloud hall passes in school and advice on the softball field. Now, he's given her a kidney. Mercier, 68, who was McCloud's coach and senior class adviser at Milan High School, ran into the woman's father and stepmother last year. He learned that McCloud, now 35, was spending four hours a day, three days a week on a dialysis machine as she waited for a kidney transplant. Relatives who had offered to help McCloud either weren't compatible or were excluded because of medical history. Mercier remembered McCloud, who was diagnosed with diabetes at age 15, as a bubbly and bright student who often helped in his classroom. It pained him to learn she had been on a transplant waiting list for more than a year, so he asked what was required in a donor. It turned out the required special education teacher had the O positive blood needed and the transplant was performed Wednesday. McCloud was stunned by Mercier's generosity. ``I was like, `You've got to be kidding me, giving a body part to someone not related to you,''' she said before the operation. ``It's overwhelming. How can you ever thank them enough?'' McCloud was in good condition Saturday at the University of Michigan Medical Center, a spokeswoman said. Mercier has been discharged. Teachers have stepped forward to donate kidneys before in similar circumstances. In Connecticut, David Bocchichio, 25, donated a kidney to Evelyn Arroyo, a single mother of three girls who attend the elementary school in East Hartford where he teaches. In North Carolina, middle school teacher Jane Smith in Fayetteville donated a kidney to student Michael Carter in 2000. Copyright 2003 The New York Times Company.