Theresa Morgan disoriented on the street – credit, Royal Cothrun, released
From Arizona comes the story of a young man helping an elderly woman whose dementia had left her disoriented, wandering about in 103°F heat.
14-year-old Royal Cothrun was riding his bike down empty sidewalks through his home town of Gilbert when he spotted 75-year-old Theresa Morgan.
Hardly pounding the pavement in running gear, she was carrying a grocery bag in one arm and her purse in the other, seemingly confused and distressed
“I don’t even know, she just looked like something was wrong, so I started talking to her,” Cothrun told ABC News 15.
It turns out that Morgan had been diagnosed with dementia just last year, and became confused attempting to walk home from the grocery store.
Cothrun saw she was sweating, and managed to convince her to follow him to the shade, where he then helped her to remember the phone number of her son, whom the young man called.
“It was just so lucky, so fortunate, that he ran across her, cared enough to stay with her, and take care of her,” said the son, Jeff, over the phone to ABC.
– credit, Royal Cothrun, released
Paramedics arrived to treat Morgan for potential heat exhaustion, concluding the episode—all of which Cothrun captured on his Meta Glasses. His mother was understandably proud, when she found out what he’d done.
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“Super proud—obviously—he was calm, he was compassionate.”
Fire Department Captain Ryan McHugh said that the outcome would likely have been so much worse had he not stepped in when he did.
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