Hardware Store Employees Build a Free Walker for a Toddler

Logan of Cedartown, Georgia has hypotonia, a muscular disorder. It's very difficult for him to walk. His family's medical insurance doesn't cover a walker, so they decided to build one of their own. They went to their local Home Depot hardware store for the necessary components. When the employees there heard what the family was trying to do, they leaped into action. 5 News reports:

“My store manager heard about this and we went over to them looked at their plans and said we got this so we started putting it together told the family to go and enjoy ice cream and come back in a hour,” Jeffrey Anderson said. “Other associates started jumping in and when the family came back it was done.”
In no time, the boy was wheeling around the store with a huge smile on his face.
“Everyone was crying to see Logan walk around with the biggest smile on his face and when the family tried to pay us we said, ‘No way this one is on us,'” Anderson said.

-via Debby Witt

Photo: Kaitlyn Ross


This story is called a “feel good/ feel bad” story. It seems great, until you realize it all stems from the insurance company denying a medical device to a child in need.
wake. Up. People are struggling in the USA due to massive profits for the wealthy, including insurance companies. Do you think it’s sweet when a family has to sell items to get diabetes medicine? What about the ‘feel good’ story of a person who got lucky on go fund me so they could afford cancer care? What about the guy who was “lucky” because a police officer didn’t arrest for swapped license plates and a suspended license and helped him get a minimum wage job at fedex?
Dont fall for the lies. Don’t accept that these stories are actually anything more than attempts to make you think this is okay and normal.

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