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Tricia Moses, 39, delayed a life-saving organ transplant in 2013 so she could prep her students at PS 233 in East Flatbush for state exams. Moses, who earned a Hometown Heroes in Education Award from the Daily News, is now regaining her strength after her miracle double-lung transplant in Pittsburgh in January — and has a one-way ticket to Brooklyn booked for Wednesday.



Some Brooklyn elementary school students can finally exhale now that their heroic teacher is coming home — with a new set of lungs.
Tricia Moses, 39, of Canarsie, delayed a life-saving organ transplant in 2013 so she could prepare her pupils for high-stakes state exams.
It was a decision that nearly killed her. When she finally got her transplant, the lungs had to be trimmed to fit her because she couldn’t wait any longer for a smaller set.
The stricken educator, who teaches third-graders with special needs at Public School 233 in East Flatbush, suffers from scleroderma, a rare autoimmune disease that slowly destroyed her ability to breathe.
But even as her lungs gradually turned to scar tissue, the 14-year veteran teacher refused to let her kids go.
“I couldn’t leave my students because I loved them so much,” Moses said. “This has been the journey of a lifetime, and now I am so happy to be coming home.”

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