Neighborhood Hero
Neighborhood Hero
The other day Barb came home for lunch and by coincidence, her sister Sarah was also here. They chatted for a while then left together. As they were pulling away from the house, Barb noticed a grandma pushing a stroller with two babies in it, two toddlers and a lady with a cane, all walking past our house towards Vincente St. Barb also noticed that there was some problem. The lady with a cane was having trouble walking and the grandma was holding her up. Barb noticed the distressed look on the grandma’s face and immediately sprung into action.She put the car in park and left it in the middle of the street, got out of the car and went to assist. The one lady was passing out or something and the lady holding on to her was going to go down with her. Barb raced to the pair just as they fell and was able to catch the ladies head right before it would’ve slammed into the street. Sarah got there too and assisted. She came got me in the house saying “some lady fell down outside and we need your help”. It was strange, Both Sarah’s and Barb’s cars in the middle of the street and one poor lady still down next to the sidewalk with Barb behind her still holding her head up.
Turns out that this grandma was walking her four grandkids down at the bike path. She had two in a stroller and two 3-4 year olds walking along side. They had met this other lady who was having problems and asked if they could walk her home. As they were walking past our house the lady started to feel light headed and was going down. It was Barb’s quick thinking and action that prevented this lady from incurring a serious head injury.
We offered to drive the lady home or to the doctors. She only lived around the corner and said all she needed was to go home. We helped her into the car and drove her around the corner to a house on Cabrillo Dr. Fortunately her husband was home so we helped her out of the car and into the house. He said that his wife had a stroke in 2003 and was still recovering. He also said that she wasn’t supposed to go out like she did. What is amazing is that this lady walked all the way to the shopping center on Fremont Blvd and back to the bike path before she got into trouble.
Anyway, the husband came by the house later to thank Barb for helping his wife. He and his wife were very grateful for what Barb and Sarah did. He had taken her to the doctor and everything was ok. The Grandma who was just out walking her grandkids was most thankful. She kept saying ” I don’t know what I would have done if you weren’t here.” Funny how things work out. Neither Barb or Sarah had planned on coming to the house at all. By mere coincidence they left at the same time, just as the ladies were walking by. The whole neighborhood was deserted and usually is on a weekday. God was looking down on those ladies and sent Barb and Sarah out there to be angels.
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