There are good people out there
To whom it may concern: I wish to say thank you to the woman who gathered my fallen partner, Lois, off the footpath and sat her on a bench in the vicinity of Racecourse Road. I wish to thank the tradie (tradesman, for non Ozzie's) who was passing and immediately brought his First Aid kit to help Lois - who was on her own, and whose face and forehead was bleeding profusely. I wish to thank said tradie for then taking Lois in his van to the Emergency Dept of Royal Melbourne Hospital. I wish to thank the social worker who tried to discover the name and address of Lois who has dementia and was very confused yet managed to state her DOB - from which said social worker did an amazing sleuthing job of detecting who Lois was. Meanwhile... I wish to thank Michael, the police officer who dealt with my frantic reporting of my lost partner (he was surprised to hear that she did not carry a mobile phone, no point, she doesn't understand how to use it) - and proceeded to stand-by to issue