Ten days after disappearing from the Texas home she shared with her daughter, a dementia patient was found alive deep in a woodland area nearby.
Linda Field, 62, was reported missing by her daughter after leaving their Jacinto County home in the family vehicle. Despite her dementia, Field had apparently managed to find the car key and decided to "go for a joyride" as her daughter would later report. Though the vehicle was eventually spotted on the outskirts of the woods, Field insists that she has no memory of how she got lost after leaving the vehicle.
During her ten-day ordeal, Field managed to stay alive by drinking creek water and subsisting on a diet of frogs and minnows which she managed to catch on her own. Despite being completely alone, she never lost hope of being found. ‘I knew I was going to be found,’ she reports, adding, ‘It was God’s time.’ After the vehicle was spotted by a passer-by and reported to police, Field was found a day later with the help of a K-9 unit deployed to the area. Afterward, it took the joint efforts of the K-9 unit handlers and paramedics to carry her out of the woods to a waiting ambulance. She was later taken to hospital to be treated for dehydration but had no injuries aside from the numerous insect bites on her legs.
Her daughter burst into tears on learning that her mother had been found safe and she has since been returned home. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has released an announcement on Facebook praising police and rescue staff.
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