Lynn Wheeler: ‘Bob Morgan saved my life’
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Former Mayor Pro Tem says former Charlotte Chamber CEO found her 3 days after she fell at her house
by Tony Mecia
Former Mayor Pro Tem Lynn Wheeler says former Charlotte Chamber CEO Bob Morgan saved her life last summer, when he stopped by her house to check on her after not hearing from her for three days.
Wheeler, a city power broker during her years on the City Council between 1993 and 2003, had fallen and couldn’t move after slipping on a rug on her Queens Road house in Myers Park on Aug. 31, she said. For three days, she was unable to reach her phone to call for help.
Doctors later determined she had broken her pelvis in three places, and she spent three weeks in the hospital. Wheeler said she and Morgan talk several times a week and share political gossip. She said he apparently became concerned when she didn’t return his call, because she always returns calls quickly.
Wheeler says details of those three days on her den floor are fuzzy — and that all she could think about was getting to her phone a few feet away. When Morgan showed up, he saw her through a window and called to her.
“I said, ‘Bob, I can’t get up! I’m in too much pain!’” she recalls.
Morgan called 911. Paramedics arrived, broke into her house, put her on a stretcher and took her to the hospital. “The doctors said if I’d been there another six hours, I would be dead,” she said.
Morgan and his wife have since moved to Columbia, S.C., where he started as CEO of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce on April 1.
Wheeler says she’s grateful to Morgan — “the most humble person I know” — and has made a full recovery. And she says she’s counting her blessings: “I’d say it’s a miracle.”
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