Facebook Messenger on May 7th:
2:15 p.m. “Hi sherry. I think your mom is Irene?”
2:19 p.m. J/M tried to call me through Messenger.
4:08 p.m. “Your moms neighbor.”
5:53 p.m. “Please call me at ____________ it’s about your mom.”
6:18 p.m. I called J/M.
This is how Facebook helped find me after Mom’s fall. My Mom’s neighbors sent me the above alarming messages May 7th on Facebook’s Messenger. They tried several times to reach me to tell me my Mom had fallen in her home and an ambulance transported her to the local hospital. She had been down for approximately 16 hours before they found her, but she was not unconscious. My whole life changed after that 39 minute phone conversation at 6:18 p.m.
I called my daughter, a nurse, right away to tell her the heartbreaking news and then I texted my sister in Oregon. She would have the furthest to travel if she wanted to go to see Mom. Since it was getting late, I would contact my other five siblings in the morning once I found out more information. Worried about what happened and how hurt, inside and out, my Mom was, I had difficulty sleeping.