Do your friends and family a favor….
Hey…I know we don’t want to think about the worst case, but today it jumped up and bit me. Please for the love of god and all that is good, keep emergency contact information on your person at all times just in case. My dad disappeared on Jan 6th. I only found out this morning, the 24th. And to be honest, I panicked. He’s in his 70s and well, you just never know.
His apartment was a typical scene, nothing unusual. Didn’t appear that he had packed to go anywhere…all his personal belongings were where they should have been, but he had his wallet on him. Car was still parked outside.
So here is what happened…he went grocery shopping (on foot) and had a stroke in the store. An ambulance just happened to be passing by and was flagged down by the store owner. They took him to a trauma unit over an hour away where he stayed for 4 days before being transferred to a neurological rehab unit another hour further away. He couldn’t remember my number and didn’t have his phone on him. My photo is in his wallet, but no contact information. So he’s been in this unit since the 10th with no way of reaching me, my brother or anyone.
When I got the call this morning, his landlord was really worried and didn’t know what to do. Between him, my husband and me, we called hospitals and jails, searched obits and news and found nothing. Went to the sheriff to file a missing persons report and they found him about an hour later through their channels.
The good news is that my dad is okay considering the stroke and I’ve talked to him. But I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s always a good idea to have emergency contact info either on your phone or in your wallet (whichever you are most likely to carry with you no matter what) so that if something (god forbid) were to happen, your family or friends will be notified. I’m happy I found him, but I hope I never have to go through this again and that you never need to.
Hey…I know we don’t want to think about the worst case, but today it jumped up and bit me. Please for the love of god and all that is good, keep emergency contact information on your person at all times just in case. My dad disappeared on Jan 6th. I only found out this morning, the 24th. And to be honest, I panicked. He’s in his 70s and well, you just never know.
His apartment was a typical scene, nothing unusual. Didn’t appear that he had packed to go anywhere…all his personal belongings were where they should have been, but he had his wallet on him. Car was still parked outside.
So here is what happened…he went grocery shopping (on foot) and had a stroke in the store. An ambulance just happened to be passing by and was flagged down by the store owner. They took him to a trauma unit over an hour away where he stayed for 4 days before being transferred to a neurological rehab unit another hour further away. He couldn’t remember my number and didn’t have his phone on him. My photo is in his wallet, but no contact information. So he’s been in this unit since the 10th with no way of reaching me, my brother or anyone.
When I got the call this morning, his landlord was really worried and didn’t know what to do. Between him, my husband and me, we called hospitals and jails, searched obits and news and found nothing. Went to the sheriff to file a missing persons report and they found him about an hour later through their channels.
The good news is that my dad is okay considering the stroke and I’ve talked to him. But I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s always a good idea to have emergency contact info either on your phone or in your wallet (whichever you are most likely to carry with you no matter what) so that if something (god forbid) were to happen, your family or friends will be notified. I’m happy I found him, but I hope I never have to go through this again and that you never need to.
