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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my neighbor. She fell and nobody knew for 2 days. She was lucky her sister came to visit after she didn't answer her phone. If she had had something on the stove, she could have burned her house down, as well as her neighbors. But at least she has her freedom, so there's that....[/quote]
When I was an EMT I responded to a call where an elderly man fell between his toilet and bath tub, could not get out, was found 5 days later dehydrated/barely alive[/quote]

My lovely neighbor was found deceased laying in her kitchen by my other neighbor after we all on the block had determined no one had seen or talked to her in 2 weeks, and her mail was piling up outside (which is unusual for her). Many had thought she had gone on vacation to visit relatives but in fact she had apparently had a stroke in her kitchen and because she lived alone no one found her in time. Something similar happened to my grandmother but someone from church had gone to check on her and found her in time to get her medical help.

But my neighbor wasn’t as lucky. Some neighbors got together, we broke into her house and found her. It has haunted me ever since. She was a really nice lady, just had barely any family and they all lived very far away.  [/quote]

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