Sue Collins @SueColl02218834 - Twitter Profile

8 days ago

🚨WOW!!! A young woman who filed a noise complaint on her upstairs neighbor walked up one day... ...and found an 85-year-old widow with Parkinson's dragging a walker, with no one left to help her. 💔 So she became her BEST FRIEND, does ALL her chores, and raised her $60,000!!! The widow's name is Carole. She came to America from Britain in the 1960s and spent her life as an au pair, raising other people's children all over country. She ended up with nobody to take care of her. No husband. No children. No family anywhere. "I've been alone for years now." Downstairs was Heidi Widmer, a middle school teacher who'd just driven seven days across the country from Buffalo with her dog, starting over after a divorce. Her first night in that apartment, she couldn't sleep. She kept hear thumping and banging. She said it sounded like somebody was bowling upstairs. Weeks later, Carole dropped her recycling right outside Heidi's door. It went everywhere, because her hands were shaking too hard to hold it. That was the first time they ever spoke. "This poor lady can barely get down the stairs, and I'm wondering what the bowling ball sound is. That's her walker." Not one person on earth had checked whether she was okay. She was too proud to ask for help, so she never did. She just decided to keep suffering until somebody happened to notice. Heidi stopped complaining and started showing up. She took her trash out twice a week. She began cooking for her. She started cleaning her apartment. She sat and laughed with her. She helped her fight through the Medicaid paperwork and the benefits no 85-year-old can navigate alone. Then she shared their story. Letters started arriving from Hawaii, Ohio, Connecticut, from around the world. A fund for Carole has passed $60,000 from more than 1,500 strangers. Her landlord suddenly found the money for an AC unit, new carpet, a screen door, and a new stove (funny how that works, right??) All of it because ONE person decided to check on her neighbor. Carole wouldn't go on camera, but they asked her about Heidi. "She's actually my granddaughter." And Heidi won't take an ounce of credit: "She's definitely saved me." THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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