Selfless sacrifice leads to life-long friendship
Cypress Creek Mirror | by Stephanie Migl/Inside Cypress-Fairbanks ISD Extra
From left, Sally Lowe, Walker ES librarian, and Kristi Schleier, Post ES librarian, have remained friends for 12 years. Their bond has strengthened as Sally has fought kidney failure and undergone multiple operations
It all started when Post ES librarian Kristi Schleier and Walker ES librarian Sally Low met 12 years ago when they both assumed the role of a librarian in CFISD. Kristi and Sally became good friends in 2006 when they participated in the district’s Cy-Fair Book Cart Drill Team, traveling together to New Orleans and Washington D.C. to compete in the annual national competition, which they won in 2007. Outside of the workplace, their friendship continued to blossom as they discovered they both live in the Copperfield area. They began to see each other frequently and became part of the same book club, summer travel group and gym.
Kristi learns about Sally’s medical struggles
It wasn’t too long before Kristi learned about the medical struggles that Sally has faced in her life. In her late 20s and early 30s, Sally went through dialysis before having two kidney transplants. Her first transplant in 1995 was from her brother, but the disease (Focal Segmental Glomerulo Sclerosis - FSGS) that attacked her own kidney also attacked her brother’s kidney.
Then in 1997 she received her another kidney from the cadaveric list.
June 18 was a life-changing day for two CFISD librarians.
It all started when Post ES librarian Kristi Schleier and Walker ES librarian Sally Low met 12 years ago when they both assumed the role of a librarian in CFISD. Kristi and Sally became good friends in 2006 when they participated in the district’s Cy-Fair Book Cart Drill Team, traveling together to New Orleans and Washington D.C. to compete in the annual national competition, which they won in 2007. Outside of the workplace, their friendship continued to blossom as they discovered they both live in the Copperfield area. They began to see each other frequently and became part of the same book club, summer travel group and gym.
Kristi learns about Sally’s medical struggles
It wasn’t too long before Kristi learned about the medical struggles that Sally has faced in her life. In her late 20s and early 30s, Sally went through dialysis before having two kidney transplants. Her first transplant in 1995 was from her brother, but the disease (Focal Segmental Glomerulo Sclerosis - FSGS) that attacked her own kidney also attacked her brother’s kidney.
Then in 1997 she received her another kidney from the cadaveric list.
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