She Paid for Pizza in Pennies to Protect Her Heart Medicine

And now the paperwork from the pharmacy sat only a few feet from the thermostat she was afraid to let me touch.

“I can wear another blanket,” she said quietly.

“My heart doesn’t know how to skip medicine.”

I didn’t know what to say to that.

So I turned the thermostat up.She leaned forward immediately.

“Please.”

There was genuine fear in her voice.

“The bill—”

“Don’t worry about the bill tonight,” I said.

“But you don’t understand.”