At 87 years old, a Kansas City icon is still devoted to helping and serving others. Former mayor, Dr. Charles Wheeler, was in the right place at the right time Monday afternoon and didn’t hesitate to help a woman in need.
Dr. Wheeler was leaving a St. Luke’s medical building when he saw a group of people gathered around a woman on the ground having a seizure.
“When I have a seizure I usually know when it’s going to happen, so I just told my son to sit down and I sat down,” explained Jamie Struss.
Struss has epilepsy. She was leaving a doctor’s appointment when it happened. Her husband went to get the car and she went down.
The seizure attracted a lot of attention, but it was the hand of Dr. Wheeler that touched Struss the most.
