Teacher dies after spending nearly 2 years battling infection stemming from common cold [Video]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT/Gray News) – A teacher in Kentucky has died after a long battle with an infection that stemmed from a common cold.

Emily Presley’s husband confirmed her death to the Lexington Herald-Leader after a nearly two-year battle with the illness and two lung transplants.

Presley was a STEM teacher at Wellington Elementary School in Lexington, wife to Jeff, and mother to 13-year-old Jackson and 16-year-old Ella.

Presley’s celebration of life will be held on Saturday.

WKYT reported that up until May of 2022, then-46-year-old Presley was completely healthy until she came down with what she thought was a cold. A few days later, she knew something was really wrong.

Within 30 minutes of being admitted to Baptist Health, Presley was put on a ventilator and then into a medically induced coma. Her husband was told she had parainfluenza presenting as bronchitis. That made her immune system crash, and Presley contracted a bacterial staph infection with pneumonia.

“It lit …