81-year-old cancer patient calls 911 for food
A 911 dispatcher responded personally to a call from an 81-year-old cancer patient who had run out of food and couldn’t leave his house.
Clarence Blackmon, a veteran, called 911 Tuesday night and said, “Whatever you can do to help. I can’t do anything. I can’t go anywhere. I can’t get out of my damn chair,” ABC 11 reported.
Blackmon had spent months in the hospital for cancer treatments and later a rehabilitation center, and returned to a home with no food.
Operator Marilyn Hinson, with her supervisor’s permission, brought him groceries. When she arrived, she made him a ham sandwich he called “a feast.”
“It was like a little miracle ringing in my ear,” Blackmon said. “I thought, ‘Jesus, you answered those prayers!’”
Since news broke of the woman’s generosity, the 911 call center said they received multiple calls asking how they could help him, or where to send food donations. He asked they be sent to a Salvation Army to help others.
Blackmon is expected to have a home care nurse soon to take care of him.
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