A young nurse found an elderly man who hadn't eaten for up to 10 days while self-isolating because of coronavirus.
Sharing the heartbreaking story on a public Facebook group, Lucy said she was driving home from a 12-hour shift when she saw an old man parked up in his car.
After she stopped and got out her car she said he opened his car door and grabbed her arm, telling her he had Covid-19.
"The man asked for my help, with beads of sweat rolling down his face, the man was drifting in and out of continuousness as he spoke to me (sic)," she said.
Lucy said when she offered to ring an ambulance, the man told her he would wait until the morning.
But Lucy went to her own car, grabbed a mask and phoned an ambulance for the gentleman who told her "he hasn't ate for 7-10 days as he has been in isolation and has no family or friends. (sic)"
She said he'd been trying to drive out to buy some food and essentials as "he knew he would die without".
The ambulance then turned up and took the man to A&E, Lucy said on the 'EH UP High Peak' Facebook group.
She said she followed in her own car and stayed with him for five hours.
"I'm not sure if he will get better," she wrote in a heartbreaking post, "but I hope so as he's promised me a coffee."
Lucy's family will have to be in self-isolation now until she finds out if she has been infected with coronavirus.
"But I know I have saved a man's life tonight," she said. "If I waited to ring an ambulance in the morning, he wouldn't be alive tomorrow."
