Day 3 – The End of the Journey

Mark got up the next morning and noticed that I wasn’t out on the back patio with coffee and the fireplace.  Assuming I was still asleep he tiptoed up to my room and opened the door to check on me.  I wasn’t there and the bed had not been slept in.  He tried to call my phone and it rang right there in the room.  He ran down to the garage and the Beamer was gone.  He checked the GPS for the car on his phone.  It indicated that the car was parked at the Guest Inn on the north side of town.  He jumped in his car and went there.  He saw the Beamer but it wasn’t parked in front of any room.   He went into the motel office to ask if anyone had seen me, but no one had.

Mark called his friend at the Police Department and explained everything to him.  “Brad, it’s me, Mark.”

“Hey Mark.  I heard you brought Marcy home from the hospital.   How’s she doing?”

“Well that’s why I’m calling.  Remember how I told you she is having memory problems.”

“Yes.”

“Sometime last night she left the house and didn’t come home.  I found her car at the Guest Inn but she is nowhere to be found.  Can you help me?” She still doesn’t know me or anything about our life.”

“Ok, let me make some phone calls.  Stay by the phone.”

“OK.”

The sun was coming up over City Lake when the older man and his dog started down the trail between the dog park and the bench overlooking the lake.  About 20 yards away from the bench the dog took off running toward the bench.  The man tried to call his dog but she kept running for the bench.  A woman was curled up on the bench not moving.  The dog, Muffy was licking the woman’s face but she did not move.  The man called 911.  The paramedics were dispatched and Brad called Mark.

Paramedics on the scene could see that the woman was in really bad shape.  She had spent the night outside in the cold and was unresponsive.  They called for an air ambulance to take her to OU Medical in Oklahoma City.  Mark arrived and found Brad just minutes before the air ambulance arrived. 

“Mark, what was she doing in the park after dark?”

“I don’t know.  I didn’t even know she had left the house.  She has been so unhappy and confused.  I don’t think she has ever even been out here in this park, certainly not all the way out here.  I have no idea what drew her out here.”

“The helicopter is taking her back to OU Med.  They reached her doctor up there and he insisted she be brought back.”

The sound of the helicopter could be heard now.  Local paramedics had stabilized the woman as best they could, had put her in a heated blanket and had started an IV to get fluids into her.  They loaded her up and took off for Oklahoma City.  Estimated time of arrival, 20 minutes.