I Paid for a Toddler’s Insulin After His Mom’s Card Was Declined – Two Days Later, a Rough-Looking Guy Showed Up at My Door with a Threat

Your prescription is fine… but payment? Maybe…

there’s some medical insurance?”

“It’s exhausted,” the woman said, and you could see something in her collapsing as she spoke. She didn’t cry loudly. She didn’t beg.

She just held her son tighter as tears fell silently down her face.

The toddler wrapped his fingers into her sweater and buried his face in her shoulder.

“I get paid on Friday,” she said. “But he needs it tonight. Please. I don’t know what else to do.

Please…”

Someone in line behind me sighed. Another muttered something under their breath — something cruel and casual, like this mother and child was just another delay in their evening.

That was all it took.

I stepped forward.

“It’s okay,” I said firmly. “I’ll pay for it.”

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