Prescriptions

I’ve worked in a pharmacy for over 4 years, and I have some horrible stories I could tell but there was one wonderful story that has stuck with me.
It was around Christmas season and a young woman came in with her son, who was 2 years old.
He had just gotten out of the hospital and his mother had 5 prescriptions for him and after imputing all of his information I had to inform her that his insurance was no longer active.
She had no idea, considering his father was the one who was supposed to have insurance on the boy and they are no longer together, so they didn’t speak often.
She started frantically calling around to everyone she knew, and after trying for about an hour she left to go charge her phone and “call everyone she knew that might help her.”
While she was gone I tried everything possible to get her son’s prescriptions to the lowest amount possible, and after all of my hard work I got them from $645 to $260 dollars, still quite a lot by any means.
She called back later in the day to see how low I could get them so that she knew exactly how much she’d need to borrow, and after talking with her on the phone I had another patient walk up. I continued talking about the price and then we started discussing maybe her only getting two of them instead of all 5, she then told me she’d would be back up later to get the two.
After I had hung up, the patient I had waiting asked me if the person I was talking to on the phone couldn’t afford their medicine, and I just said yes.
And with no hesitation, she said “can you let me pay for them?”
I was stunned. I told her the prescriptions were over 200 dollars and she said “that’s fine.”
I took her to the register rang up the prescription and said “what would you like me to tell her?”
and she said “tell her Merry Christmas, and to pay it forward.”
I immediately called the patient who didn’t answer her phone.
About 3 hours later right before my shift ended she came in, and walked to the register and started thanking me for getting the prescriptions to a lower price.
and I had the pleasure of looking into the woman’s eyes and saying “they have already been paid for, I was told to tell you Marry Christmas and to pay it forward"
And she immediately broke down into tears.

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 Chef and manager Adam Hardiman will offer homeless individuals a full roast, including a carvery of turkey, beef and salmon – with all the trimings from 12 to 3pm this Sunday.

He came up with the idea after wanting to cook for “actual people that need it”.
“I have always wanted to cook or volunteer for the homeless at Christmas. Everybody jumped on the idea in the pub.
“I didn’t expect any of this, we put boards up outside all of the time.
“I know homeless people on the streets here, I asked them to come in please. They were buzzing, they said ‘Are you joking?’”
The pub has subsequently been deluged with offers to help – but Mr Hardiman, 30, said they did not need any volunteers.
“If people want to volunteer walk the streets and tell people to come in.“

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Great to see the unselfish act of kindness. 

The experience of being understood in small, daily encounters is one easily taken for granted. But what happens when someone who expects to face constant communication barriers can suddenly understand everyone he meets?

In a longform advertisement for Samsung, a hearing-impaired man named Muaharrem, along with his sister Özlem, take a walk and run errands in their Istanbul neighborhood. Unbeknownst to Muaharrem, he's being recorded and monitored secretly — and everyone he meets that morning will be signing to him.

The video shows Muaharrem growing increasingly confused by the number of people he meets who are signing: a woman who bumps into him, a man who drops some apples, an employee at a mart and even his cab driver. After a while, Muaharrem and Özlem run into an advertisement board for Samsung's new video call  center. A Samsung spokesperson tells them the electronics group worked with his town to put together something "special" for him, all through hours of classes, learning to sign.

Then, the entire neighborhood comes out to greet him, and Muaharrem's teary-eyed reaction says it all.

It's easy to feel cynical about a viral ad. The editing makes it appear like Muaharrem is crying in response to the great new call center Samsung has developed, rather than to having barriers broken down for him. But the emotional truth here is a bit deeper than Muaharrem's experience. Imagine being set apart from the people encountered in daily life — like being constantly surrounded by people speaking an unfamiliar language. Now imagine suddenly, one day, they speak your language.