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Two Girls Save Elderly Woman Lying In DrivewayBy Addison Speck, Reporter
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Two Cedar Rapids girls were in the right place at the right time Thursday night. The girls, driving home from a high school basketball game, spotted an elderly woman lying at the end of her driveway on the SE side of Cedar Rapids. It was where one of the girls was getting dropped off, just down the street.
KCRG was unable to gather details about what the woman was doing or how long she was laying there. But, the two girls unexpectedly saved her life. “We were driving and Callie was like, is that a hand? And I am just like, what are you talking about?,” said Aleena Hobbs, a sophomore at Cedar Rapids Washington High School. Callie Cook’s car lights flashed on a fallen over trash can. “Above the trash can, we just saw a hand waving and panting back and forth,” said Cook, a Sophomore at Cedar Rapids Washington High School. Thursday night Cook and Hobbs spotted a nearly 90-year-old woman lying at the end of her driveway. “When I saw her at first, her knuckles were all bloody and her elbows were split and her chin was bloody,” said Cook. The girls said she kept asking to be taken inside. Hobbs called her parents, who live just down the street. “I kept mentioning to them to hurry up because she seems to be in a lot of pain,” said Hobbs. They called 9-1-1. Cook tried her best to pick the woman up, by propping her up on her knee. “I was kind of just in a bear- hug,” said Cook, “You could barely understand her, she was at the point where her motor skills were gone, she was saying hip, hip, hip.” When Hobbs parents made it to the house, Cook went inside and got a blanket. “All of her clothes were soaking wet and so she was freezing,” said Cook, “We just wrapped her up in her comforter and everybody was hugging her.” “I just remember her saying, please don’t let me go. She was holding on so tight,” said Hobbs. Paramedics showed up to take the woman to the hospital. The incident left the two high school girls thankful they found her alive, and sending prayers that she has a quick recovery. “If no one had gotten there, I don’t know what would have happened,” said Hobbs. KCRG was told the woman was taken to, and currently is, at St. Luke’s hospital. Unfortunately we have no update on her condition at this time. More Good Stuff |
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