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Rubber Duck Saves Life Of Woman Stuck In Bathtub (90 Year Old Women Trapped 3 Days)
WKRG ^ | Mon, June 08, 2009

Posted on 06/09/2009 4:55:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A 90-year-old woman spent three days trapped in her bathtub after becoming too weak to pull herself out, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday. Shirley Madsen, of Walnut Creek, Calif., survived her ordeal by drinking water from a rubber duck with a hole in the bottom.

When Madsen got into the tub on May 27, she forgot to put her phone within reach and could not call for help when she got trapped.

Madsen survived for three days stuck in the bathtub by continually replacing the cooling bath water with fresh water from the tap to stay warm. She also used one of her collection of rubber ducks as a drinking cup to keep hydrated during her confinement. "I have never been so terrified in my life," Madsen later told the Mercury News. After three days with no word from their mother, Madsen's two daughters grew concerned. Daughter Diane Weber went to Madsen's home where she found her mother trapped in the bathroom and summoned an ambulance.

Following a three-day hospital stay, Madsen was sent home to recover from minor injuries. She worked out a routine to check in with relatives and is getting a waterproof medical alert device. But Madsen also advocates an easy safety plan: "Get a bunch of rubber duckies and make sure one of them can't swim," she joked.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bath; elderly; rubberduck
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1 posted on 06/09/2009 4:55:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Slings and Arrows

Ping


2 posted on 06/09/2009 4:55:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Rubber Duckie, you're the one
You make bath time lots of fun

3 posted on 06/09/2009 5:00:06 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: nickcarraway

Bless her heart, and I mean that in the BEST way!


4 posted on 06/09/2009 5:00:57 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: nickcarraway

Good for her — but this story illustrates why 90-year-olds should be living with family, not alone.


5 posted on 06/09/2009 5:02:14 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!!!!


6 posted on 06/09/2009 5:08:32 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: SuziQ

I woke up early one Saturday morning after a vertebrae slipped in the lower back. After being pried up from the bed (took about 1/2 hour) I made it the few steps to the bathroom and got into a tub of hot water adding more hot water when it got cool. I stayed there for the best part of the next 48 hours unil the doctor’s office opened on Monday. The car trip into the office was about the most painful experience in my life.

One sure gets water-logged after the first few hours. That poor lady! I can’t imagine being alone for something like that. At least someone brought me food and water, and it wasn’t no rubber duck. (Note to self: put rubber duck near bathtub, just in case).


7 posted on 06/09/2009 5:12:09 PM PDT by CH3CN
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To: nickcarraway
At least now she is squeaky clean.
8 posted on 06/09/2009 5:18:28 PM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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To: Manic_Episode

This happened to my mom about 7 years ago...4 days, I was out of town and when I got back couldn’t reach her by phone - dashed to her house, no answer at the door, let myself in.

Found the bathroom locked, yelled mom, mom - no answer, scared me to death. It was summertime and about 96 degrees inside her house. Picked the bathroom lock and found her. No water in tub, but dehydrated from high heat in house. Scary incident - was in hospital 2 weeks....now under full care with Alzheimers - sickening desease, she doesn’t even remember me anymore.


9 posted on 06/09/2009 5:35:08 PM PDT by freedompursuit (Meet the new President of Government Motors - Barack Camaro)
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10 posted on 06/09/2009 5:35:13 PM PDT by Daffynition ("If any of you die, can I please have your ammo?" ~ Gator113)
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To: Daffynition

OK, make that a rubber duck and a faux microphone.


11 posted on 06/09/2009 5:48:00 PM PDT by CH3CN
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To: nickcarraway

Perhaps everyone over 80 should have a “walk in bathtub”. At least they could let the water out and crawl out, if they can’t stand up.


12 posted on 06/09/2009 6:07:21 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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sickening desease, she doesn’t even remember me anymore.

I'm so sorry. I cannot imagine not remembering my children.

13 posted on 06/09/2009 6:31:35 PM PDT by NucSubs ( Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
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To: Daffynition

Awesome movie.


14 posted on 06/09/2009 6:31:54 PM PDT by NucSubs ( Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
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"I'm so sorry. I cannot imagine not remembering my children."

Ahem, you don't have any children.

15 posted on 06/09/2009 8:03:13 PM PDT by blam
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I don’t understand this. Why couldn’t you roll onto your side and then get on your hands and knees if you are too week to stand up from a seated position?


16 posted on 06/09/2009 8:17:19 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: nickcarraway; KoRn; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Finally, a story involving rubber toys that doesn't go straight to the Smokey Backroom!


17 posted on 06/09/2009 8:46:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("If Dick Cheney is Darth Vader, then Barack Obama is Jar-Jar Binks!")
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To: Slings and Arrows

LoL!

“Knock knock”


18 posted on 06/09/2009 8:56:55 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: CH3CN
At least someone brought me food and water, and it wasn’t no rubber duck. (Note to self: put rubber duck near bathtub, just in case).

*snort*

19 posted on 06/09/2009 9:08:09 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: blam

Cute.


20 posted on 06/09/2009 9:14:20 PM PDT by NucSubs ( Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
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