Only occasionally have I blogged about anything that really wasn't "homemaking" related. Something very troubling happened yesterday...
My husband had some surgery a couple of days ago. He's fine. Don't worry. He had to spend the night at the hospital for observation so I spent the night in a motel. Yesterday morning I left my motel and drove to the hospital to await his discharge. Just one city block from my destination, I was in the middle lane of a main road in that city. I stopped at an intersection and looked over to the right. I was surrounded by other cars. It was a busy time in the morning. I saw a man standing in the middle of the intersection road near the intersection. I thought and probably said out loud, "Hey, mister. Get off the road!" Then he started to walk a little and collapsed on the road. Shortly he got up and was staggering around and fell a second time. He was completely disoriented. He came onto the road I was traveling and fell again and someone actually honked at him! He moved a little closer to the curb and sat there. I wanted to stop and help him and didn't know what to do. I hesitated and I got honked at! I concluded there was no safe way to stop, so I proceeded to the hospital parking lot and called 911 emergency services. The woman I gave the report to said they would send police to check on him. I have no idea what happened. He could have been struck by a car. I will never know. It broke my heart! I wanted to take him by the hand and say, "Hey, let's get you onto the sidewalk" and then call 911.
I got to thinking about it later and I believe that if it had been a DOG or a momma duck with babies behind her, most people would have stopped and traffic would have stopped and the dog or whatever would have been rescued. I don't understand people. I imagine some of them did not notice him, but a lot would have had to see him. It's tragic.
