North Carolina woman, 82, survives nine days trapped in her bathtub after fall
Joan Rivet drank water she managed to splash up to her face by turning faucet on with her foot An 82-year-old North Carolina woman says she survived falling in her bathtub and being trapped there for nine days by turning the faucet on with her foot and drinking water that she managed to splash up to her face – all while drifting in and out of consciousness. Joan Rivet recently shared her remarkable survival story with North Carolina’s The Mountaineer newspaper, providing an extreme example of the kinds of emergencies that can face the millions of older Americans who fall by accident annually, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates. Continue reading...
An 82-year-old North Carolina woman says she survived falling in her bathtub and being trapped there for nine days by turning the faucet on with her foot and drinking water that she managed to splash up to her face – all while drifting in and out of consciousness.
Joan Rivet recently shared her remarkable survival story with North Carolina’s The Mountaineer newspaper, providing an extreme example of the kinds of emergencies that can face the millions of older Americans who fall by accident annually, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates.
Such falls are prevalent enough that in the 1980s they served as the premise of the LifeAlert medical alarm and protection company’s commercials which thrust the phrase “I’ve fallen – and I can’t get up” into the US lexicon.
Furthermore, on Sunday, 84-year-old Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell revealed it was a fall that led to a 14 June hospitalization which had kept him out of the public eye for weeks.
BOLD.news retains normalized extraction for time-stamped evidence and analysis. This public wrapper shows a limited excerpt because availability is not a republication license; use the publisher link for the complete presentation.