So I get home, neighbor across the street has their garage door up. I'm getting out and dragging the recycle garbage can back to the house..I hear "Danny!" kinda loud. It was an old lady voice. I had seen a kid maybe 10 years old skateboarding down the street close to their and he was down the block. Thought his grandma was calling him. Then, I hear....."Help Me!!!"
So I'm like wtf? I go over and the old lady was on the ground. She says "I've fallen and I cant get up" just like the commercials So I ask if I can call someone or call for help and she says no, that she falls all the time and she's ok, just cant get up. Asks if I can help her stand up. So I grab her hands and get her up on her feet. Her car door was open, she says she was going to get her hair washed but fell and her phone was in the car. So I help her get to the car, ask her a few times if there is anyone I can call, she says no, she'll be fine. She gets in the car, thanks me a few times. I ask again if I can get anyone for her and she says no. So I left and just got inside.
Oh, and exactly a week ago I was driving down the same street and found a tiny puppy wandering around. Called animal control and they said to bring it in. I figured I'd try to find the owner and rang like 5 doorbells where I found her. No collar. I was about to give up when I saw a lady a few more houses down come out front yelling "Izzy! Izzy!". I asked if she lost a dog, she said yes. A really tiny cute dog? She said yes. We'll she's in my car, hold on. Reunited them. I'm on a roll this last 7 days. Haha. Feel like a boyscout.
But you should remove "I've fallen and I cant get up" part of you post before the MedAlert people find out and sue the poor little ol' lady for trademark thieverin'.
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I know you were well intentioned and I hope you did good, but my mother kept falling like that and it turns out she was having mini strokes (TDIs). They got worse over time, but even the last ones she had were 'I just tripped over my own feet' events according to her. I hope your neighbor is OK.
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Originally posted by jbcummings: I know you were well intentioned and I hope you did good, but my mother kept falling like that and it turns out she was having mini strokes (TDIs). They got worse over time, but even the last ones she had were 'I just tripped over my own feet' events according to her. I hope your neighbor is OK.
I hope so too. She has a husband around and there was an ambulance there a few weeks ago. I mean, I'm a stranger. I stepped in when I heard "help me" but it really isn't any of my business to be making any decisions for someone I dont know. Its damned if you do, damned if you dont. I don't call an ambulance, I'm a jerk if she ends up being serious and dies. I do call an ambulance and I'm a jerk because maybe she does normally fall all of the time and now I just escalated it and cost them some $. Trust me, all this was going through my mind at the time I left. She was sitting upright and talking when I got there. If she had any confusion, inability to stand, or blood I would have called some help.
