Paying for prescription: Angel comes to aid of city woman
Published: October 14, 2005
A city resident wants to wish a big ‘thank you’ to a woman who paid for a prescription she couldn’t afford Sunday at Shopper’s Drug Mart.
Lisa Blair was given a prescription for antibiotics and painkillers to treat an ear infection after a six-hour wait for an examination at Brockville General Hospital Saturday.
She took the prescription the following day to have it filled at Shopper’s Drug Mart in the 1000 Islands Mall.
When the bill was rung in for more than $100, however, Blair realized she didn’t have the cash to cover the cost.
“We had just paid all of our bills when we got paid Friday,” she said, explaining how she didn’t have enough cash left for the prescription.
“I have no doctor, no drug plan and it was over $100.”
She said the store pharmacist was sympathetic but there was nothing that could be done at the time.
“The pharmacist was the nicest person I every had to deal with.
“I said I’ll have to suffer for the week and get (the prescription) Friday. This lady was standing behind me and overheard me and the pharmacist talking and when I got home the pharmacist called and said you can come and get your medicine because the lady paid for it.
“That was so nice. She doesn’t even know how grateful I am.”
Blair was given the phone number of the generous woman but lost it somehow after leaving Shopper’s with her prescription.
She plans to check again at the pharmacy for the woman’s phone number but in the meantime wanted to express her thanks publicly.
“This lady is like my Thanksgiving Angel.”
She said she has an ongoing problem with ear infections when the cold weather sets in. The medicine took a day to have an effect but she was feeling much better Wednesday.
“It’s just starting to work. It was really bad,” she said.
“But I can just imagine myself if I didn’t get my medicine. It if wasn’t for that lady I don’t know what I’d be doing. I’d really like to say thank you to her.”
Blair lost her job last winter when the Beautyrock call service closed in Brockville. She found temporary work elsewhere before being hired at Trillium a couple of months ago but remains without a drug plan at this point.
She said she approached social services but she is ineligible for funding to pay for medicine because she is working.
She said people without a family physician and drug plan have difficulty when they get sick.
“Try having no doctor and doing that (going to the hospital emergency department) every time something like that happens to you.”
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