The owner of a pharmacy is shocked when an elderly woman runs out of his door and falls unconscious at his feet, but he becomes angry when he learns the reason why.
Taylor Morgan was whistling as he walked along the pavement, his newspaper under his arm. Yes, he knew it was old-fashioned, but his dad had taken a newspaper to work every morning, and he did too!
Taylor stopped in front of the pharmacy and smiled proudly. The sign read ‘Morgan & Morgan.’ The pharmacy had been in the family for three generations now, and Taylor was proud of his legacy. And that was when a woman staggered out and collapsed at his feet.
The sick woman was devastated when she was denied help at the pharmacy | Source: Shutterstock.com
Taylor immediately knelt down by the fallen woman and fumbled for her pulse. It was racing! He pulled out his phone and dialed 911. Then he took the woman’s hand in his. “It’s OK, help is on the way,” he said.
The woman, who appeared to be in her late seventies, was moving her lips, trying to speak. “Medication…” she whispered. She lifted a thin hand in which she grasped an empty flask.
Taylor took it gently from her hand. The label identified the woman as Honoria Field, and the flask had once contained a powerful heart medication, with indications to be taken daily.
“Mrs. Field,” Taylor asked gently, “did you take the medication today? We need to tell the paramedics…”
Taylor saw the old lady walk out of his pharmacy | Source: Unsplash
“No…” Mrs. Field whispered through parched lips. “I didn’t have…”
At that moment, the ambulance arrived and the paramedics gathered around Mrs. Field. Taylor asked for permission to accompany her to the emergency room and the paramedics agreed.
All the way to the hospital, Mrs. Field held Taylor’s hand and told him the whole sad story. She had come to Taylor’s pharmacy to fill out the prescription for her heart medication, but when she started to count her money, she discovered she was 20 cents short.
“I told the young man I’d come back tomorrow,” Mrs. Field whispered, tears running down her thin cheeks. “But he said I was a sponger. I told him I really needed the pills but he started to scream at me…”
