A middle school English teacher in Hoisington, Kiley Klug, took her language skills to the big stage, winning “Wheel of Fortune.” “At the end of the day, it didn’t really matter how much I won or if I won; I just wanted to experience that and check it off my bucket list,” Klug said. Klug says being a middle school English teacher, she loves all word games. She applied multiple times before getting her shot. After she got the “yes” she’d been waiting for, she began thinking of logistics. Klug says as a teacher, she wasn’t sure what they would be able to afford. “We were trying to decide who to go with us; my husband was like, ‘Yeah, it’s probably just gonna be the two of us. I just don’t think we could swing four plane tickets. That’s a lot of money.'” Then, everything fell into place. Klug formerly spent some time advocating for Dravet syndrome, an epilepsy syndrome, on the side. Her son Owen has Dravet syndrome. The organization she worked for contacted her to train new influencers. “They wanted me to be like a coach, a trainer,” Klug said. “And so I said, ‘Yeah, absolutely. I’ll do that for sure.’ And they said, ‘You’ll be compensated for it.’ Like, ‘OK, I’d do it for free, but whatever.’ I got paid around the time we were debating whether or not we could take our kids, and I kid you not, it was exactly the amount of four plane tickets. So I just feel like all of these doors just opened.”
Source: KSN-TV
