Vige Barrie remembers her unsung heroes, Mary and Kevin.

Vige Barrie

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Vige Barrie

Vige Barrie remembers her unsung heroes, Mary and Kevin.

Vige Barrie

This story is a part of the My Unsung Hero sequence, from the Hidden Brain workforce, about folks whose kindness left a long-lasting impression on another person.

One June morning in 2017, Vige Barrie was strolling to an necessary assembly in Washington, D.C.. She remembers feeling assured and pleased — till she fell flat on her face.

“My glasses cut into my eyelid. My cheeks were torn up. I was bleeding. All I wanted to do was jump up and grab my glasses and avoid any further embarrassment,” Barrie stated.

Barrie has delicate cerebral palsy. Because of the situation, she generally would fall with out warning. But she hadn’t executed so in a very long time, which added to her misery.

“I was deeply demoralized that this had happened to me yet again, and [at] what an awful moment — I needed to be somewhere very important. And yet here I was, a mess,” Barrie remembered.

As she tried to gather herself, she heard a voice. It was a person she’d seen standing in a parking storage just a few moments earlier.

“He ran over to me and picked me off the sidewalk, and he walked me, rushed me, actually, into a building and down an office hallway. And I heard them yelling, ‘Mary, Mary, come, it’s an emergency,'” Barrie stated.

The man, whom Barrie later discovered was named Kevin, rushed her into a rest room. Just then, Mary, the concierge of the constructing, appeared.

“And Mary just automatically, even though I had left a trail of blood, she took over washing me, washing my face, washing my hair, trying to get the blood off my clothes, soothing me,” Barrie recalled. “I was babbling. I was so embarrassed.”

After a short time, Kevin and Mary had been capable of clear Barrie up and make her presentable for her assembly.

“Between the two of them, Kevin and Mary, they put me together and encouraged me that it was going to be alright.”

A couple of minutes later, Barrie made it to her assembly. And she continues to consider Kevin and Mary to at the present time.

My Unsung Hero can be a podcast — new episodes are launched each Tuesday. To share the story of your unsung hero with the Hidden Brain workforce, report a voice memo in your telephone and ship it to myunsunghero@hiddenbrain.org.