She was tired and staggered as she walked. Was it just age?

“Her blood count is dangerously low,” the doctor said on the phone. “I’m going to send an ambulance to get her to the hospital because she definitely can’t drive.” Her voice was quiet but determined. The woman across the line kept quiet for a moment and then said, “Okay, I’ll go, but I don’t need an ambulance. I have a friend who can take me.” The 73-year-old woman called her closest neighbor, who lived half a mile off the road, in the rural vil…