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  • Trying to sleep!

    Seriously, it's 11 AM, I'm sleeping...
    The family phone rings once, I let it go through the usual four rings, and hear no answering machine message. Not even ten seconds later, it rings again, and I let it go again, thinking, "Okay, Mom, if it's you, just leave a message." No message, and the phone starts ringing again... this time, the person actually leaves a message, and through my sleep fogged brain, I hear, "I had a stroke and a heart attack." That wakes me up, and I get up and dressed, manage to catch the end of the message, which is very random and vague. I pop the message up on the handset, and listen to the full message, which basically goes: "I'm sorry, I keep calling the wrong number, I'm trying to get hold of my wife and keep dialing your number by mistake. My name is ____, and my son's name is ____ Jr. I'm in the hospital, I think, and I think my room's on the second floor... here's my number if you want to call me (Ed. Note: WHY would I want to call a stranger who admitted to calling the wrong number 3 times?) Now you know that you should eat right and exercise and yap yap yap (Yes, I know, I had a stroke too, thanks.)"
    Something about the message just screams that someone was trying to scam me...
    "I call murder on that!"

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    Did he tell you the hospital? That is very strange - why would he call you when he is trying to call his wife?
    "Eventually, everything that you have said becomes everything you will ever say." Eireann
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      I've never had a stroke and I don't know anyone who's had a stroke so I'm no expert...but don't stroke victims have memory trouble or something? Maybe the caller was trying to dial his wife and honestly couldn't remember her number and kept entering the OP's instead, and didn't know what to do so ended up leaving a message. Although I'm not sure why the hospital didn't try to contact next of kin for him...

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      • #4
        Quoth MaggieTheCat View Post
        I've never had a stroke and I don't know anyone who's had a stroke so I'm no expert...but don't stroke victims have memory trouble or something? Maybe the caller was trying to dial his wife and honestly couldn't remember her number and kept entering the OP's instead, and didn't know what to do so ended up leaving a message. Although I'm not sure why the hospital didn't try to contact next of kin for him...
        depends on the specific areas affected by the stroke ...

        It may very well be that the family has been notified, but the guy is in a loop and does not remember being told that they were notified, and he is trying to notify them, but his number memory is also affected.
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