Senior care in our country isn't always the best. As life expectancy gets longer and baby boomers start reaching the age in which they'll need senior care, this becomes a topic we can't ignore.
Many of our seniors are also war veterans who have fought for our freedom and sacrificed so much of their young lives for their country. It's so sad that many of our veterans feel as if they have been forgotten by their country as they age.
When Lisa Lemming Jackson, a single mother in Rome, Georgia, saw an older man who looked like he was in distress in a Kroger, she couldn't just go on her merry way. She works at a senior care center and sees the struggles that come with old age every day, and knew that this man might need some serious help.
When she approached the man, who was named Elmer, she found out that she had just saved his day and that she had the opportunity to give him hope again.
See how Lisa helped this senior war veteran below, and SHARE with your family and friends on Facebook!
Lisa wrote the following message on her Facebook page to let others know that a change needs to be made.
Just spent 2 hours with an elderly man at Kroger. It started with me just smiling at him, making eye contact …. As I walked past him he looked like he needed something.
I went back and asked him if I could help him. Tears welled up in his eyes and he said, ‘I have colon cancer and I have had a really bad accident, if I get up out of this cart everyone will know… What should I do?’
The look of his dignity lost left me with a lump in my throat. From that moment on, Kroger staff quickly fetched us wipes, undergarments and discreetly took him to their employer bathroom area where he was given clothes. He cried and apologized.
He said he had to hurry, his wife was at home alone. When we walked to the register we found his groceries all bagged and somehow paid for. He cried harder.
He said he fought in Vietnam and Korean War and loved his country, but up until [that] day he said he thought his country forgot about him. We both cried and I shared with him my own struggles and fears.
He gave me words of wisdom and encouraged me that maybe after all, humanity still does care about one another. Today proved it.
Thank you Elmer, thank you Kroger, and thank you God for the lesson and reminder I received today.
We can all learn a great deal from Lisa's experience in Kroger. Take the time to notice others, and have the compassion to take action when someone needs help.
You can change someone's entire perspective on life with just asking if someone needs assistance. You never know what others are going through unless you show compassion and ask.
This commenter's perspective on life was changed from reading Lisa's account. Is yours?
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