Concerned for friend

debodun

debodun

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way upstate in New York, USA
I've been trying to phone and email a friend of mine for several days now. She is not answering her home or cell phone or responding to emails. It is not like her and I am concerned - she is 83. I consider calling one of her neighbors, but they may not know any more than I do, or would tell me to mind my own business. Driving by her property wouldn't tell me much, either, as her house far away from the road and not visible from there. I don't want to trespass. Any suggestions?
 

She might have fallen. If this is really out of character for her, I would ask one of her neighbors to go and check on her. If they DO tell you to MYOB, or won't do it, or don't get any response, call the police and ask them to do a welfare check.
 
Butterfly said:
I would ask one of her neighbors to go and check on her.
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Well, that's what I did. I had to go into our local school tax database and look up a person that lives close to her by entering the address, then go to whitepages.com to get their phone number. I called and introduced myself. The woman said that come to think of it, she hadn't see my friend's car in the driveway. She promised to check. About 10 minutes later my friend called and said she was okay. She had some calls on her caller ID, but didn't recognize any of the numbers, so she didn't return any calls. Her car is at the dealership garage, that's why it wasn't in her driveway. She's okay, thank heavens, but I appreciate the suggestions.
 
Glad your friend is OK. Where I live the mail person will also check on the elderly if they haven't been picking up their mail out of the mail box. And of course, the police will do a welfare check too.
 
If a person is getting old, or has health problems...and lives alone...they need someone to check in on them regularly. I have such a neighbor...he had a stroke 4 years ago, and now is undergoing cancer treatments. His relatives are over 200 miles away, and they tried to get him to move closer to them, or move to a senior center, but he won't have any of that. He still drives, and if I don't see him passing by every couple of days, I either call or go over to his house to see if he's doing ok. I have a key to his house, and I'm afraid I will go over there some day, and find him passed out on the floor.
 
Don M., you are a good neighbor and friend. No worries if you go some day and your neighbor has passed on to a better place. That's OK, and it's great he has someone close who cares and checks on him.
 
I hope someone would check on me too. Its odd but my daughter in Va. calls several times a week and the one living 3 miles away I don't hear from hardly at all.
 

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