Dementia

Yesterday a very cool/random thing happened.  Nicole, Johny and I were outside playing with this new toy that Johny got for his birthday and also chatting with some of the neighbors, one of whom works as a policeman in a nearby county.  While talking, a police helicopter started circling overhead, obviously searching for someone.  At first we were all thinking that there was a shooting or something similar that happened nearby and that’s what they were searching for.

After about 5 minutes of wondering what was up with the chopper, the  neighbor went inside to get his handheld police radio and tuned into the local police channel to see if he could pick up the chatter and figure out what was going on.  THE VERY MOMENT we heard on the police radio that they were looking for a missing woman, we saw this old lady wander onto our street looking extremely lost and confused.  He radioed to the chopper and identified himself, giving our location and a description of what he was wearing and telling them that he found the woman!  The chopper flew back overhead and radioed to a nearby cruiser to come to our street and pick up the woman to give her a ride home.  It was so cool to see my neighbor help out like that and watch the chopper fly off into the distance after the issue was resolved.

Basically, the old lady had dementia and had wandered away from her house.  Her son had called in the missing person report so that’s what all the commotion was about.  Just thought I’d post about it since stuff like that doesn’t happen everyday.