My Sick 67-Year-Old Mother Disappeared for 3 Days, and When She Returned She Pointed at My Husband
While Claire is dropping her kids off at summer camp, she gets a devastating phone call. Her 67-year-old mother, an Alzheimer’s patient, is missing. After three days of looking for Edith, police officers bring her home, and only then does the old woman reveal a horrible truth about Claire’s husband.
Three days.
That’s how long my mother had been missing.
Three days of frantic phone calls, sleepless nights, and endless dread. My mom, who is 67 and has Alzheimer’s, had somehow wandered out of the house in the dead of the night while I was away, taking the kids to their summer camp.
A shocked woman | Source: Midjourney
The camp was four hours away, and Nate, my husband, couldn’t leave work. So, we decided that I would take the kids, drop them off, spend a night at a motel, and then drive back the next day.
I had left Mom in Nate’s care, trusting him to watch her while I was gone.
But that trust was shattered the second I got the call.
It was Nate who called me to tell me that Mom was missing.
“She’s gone, Claire!” he said frantically on the phone. “Edith! Your mom… I don’t know how it happened or when. I just woke up, and she wasn’t there.”
Those words knocked the wind out of me. I sat at the edge of the motel bed, feeling like I couldn’t breathe. At least my kids were safely away. I could drive home as fast as anything.
A shocked man talking on the phone | Source: Midjourney
I threw my things into my overnight bag, gulped down my coffee, and ran. I needed to get home. I thought my mother was safe. Nate had opted to work from home just so that he could be there, ready and available if needed.