The soles were torn up: Nurse gives the shoes off her own feet to patient in need [Video]

MADISONVILLE, Ky. (WFIE/Gray News) – A nurse in Kentucky is being praised for her generosity when it came to a patient in need.

When Lou Coulon came in for her shift as a nurse in the endoscopy unit on a cold day in February, she had no idea she would be leaving without her shoes.

Coulon said she first noticed a patient with holes in their shoes a few months before. When that same patient returned for another appointment wearing the same old shoes, she said the sight tugged on her heart strings

“The laces were all shredded, and the soles were torn up,” she described. “You could see through the sides.”

With ice on the ground and freezing temperatures, Coulon said she worried for the patient’s safety. That’s when Coulon decided to go above and beyond her job description- by giving the patient the shoes that she had on her feet.

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