On Friday March 4, Elly Baker (’15), a pharmacist at Brookshire Grocery Company in Bullard, TX , was checking prescriptions when a woman and her husband showed up at the drop-off window in obvious distress. “I could see that she was swelling up and having trouble breathing,” says Baker. “I asked what the circumstances were. She had not been stung by a bee or anything. Apparently she had an airborne allergy attack—the pollen and mold counts were extremely high that day. They were not from the East Texas area, so that might have made her more prone to a reaction.” Elly then grabbed an EpiPen off the shelf and gave it to the patient instructing her on how to use it. She monitored the patient until it was clear she was stable as well as called 911, notified the patient’s physician, and documented the situation. “It’s hard to think of yourself as a lifesaver—I was just doing what needed to be done.”
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