The daughter of an 85-year-old woman says she’s “full of rage and disgust” after two men ignored her mother after she collapsed near the Rye Medical Centre. Carol Nickerson says her mother, who doesn’t want to give her name, was eventually rescued by a third man but now feels scared to go out.
The woman – a life-long Rye resident – suffered a dizzy spell and collapsed after visiting the doctors on Friday June 14. Carol Nickerson says her mother fell backwards and could not get up as she has arthritis and two hip replacements. “After struggling for a while, a gentleman (I use that word lightly) approached her but ignored her asking for help and walked past. She then shouted out to another man who also totally ignored her and just walked by. Luckily a third man asked her if she needed help. He also gave her a lift back into Rye. I’d like to thank him.”
Carol says her mother did not want further treatment. “She should have gone straight back into the doctors to be checked out but my mum is one of the ‘don’t make a fuss’ types. I did tell her off for not doing just that though. A fall like that is a major shock to anyone in their eighties never mind how the treatment from those two individuals must have made her feel. If they didn’t want to help themselves, they only had to inform staff inside the doctors. Everyone berates the youth of today but this goes to show that adults can be just as wicked. I really don’t know how these people live with themselves!”
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A terrible thing to read, but sadly unsurprising nowadays. I still believe that there are more good than bad, and this is proved by the kind passer-by who eventually came to the lady’s rescue. It used to happen only in larger towns, communities etc where anonymity reigns and people rush everywhere, ignoring their neighbours and/or any incidents such as this. I would like to think that those 2 people who walked past felt a tinge of remorse.
The picture does not show where the person fell. Seems too far from the doctors surgery.
As the article says the two people who didn’t help the person up could have gone to the doctors. The fall would have been nearer to the doctors.
Sorry to hear of the ‘unhelpful’ people. But usually if people fall in the town most people are helped by strangers, locals and the business staff.
May be the people who did not respond were not fully aware of their environment…because of technology use..phones…
I do not travel to London often these days, but I find that in crowded Tube carriages, or on station stairs I (an elderly lady) get more offers of seats or help on the stairs from young people. Middle-aged men usually sit staring into the middle distance. Gentlemen are a dying breed.
Things don’t change in 1962 when cars parked on the strand quay I fell into the river. Nobody moved! They didn’t know I could swim!