95-year-old woman threatens self due to COVID treatment, Lombard IL


Emergency responders were called to check on a 95-year-old woman who expressed suicidal thoughts after being told she needed to take COVID medication. She later clarified that she made the statement to try to influence her physician's decision.
Audio|Source: DuComm Police 1 East - Lombard, and Villa Park
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Transcript:
Your one. Go ahead. When you're doing with that call, I'm going to be holding detect while being at Hamilton Avenue for a 95-year-old female who threatened to hang herself because her doctors want to give her COVID medicine case. All right. I'll get the medics going as well. Negative. We can get them started if you want. I'm guessing to be appropriate based on her statement. We have her on the phone now. She said she only said that so maybe they would change their mind and she was refusing by ex. She's home alone. One, I'm going to request them anyways. And they can figure it out from there. Then admin closed the drain track. Oh, I got nothing. Pometics run route. 94. Turn 94. You can have been closed that fingerprint. Now I'll go with Victor 1. Town 4.
Your one. Go ahead. When you're doing with that call, I'm going to be holding detect while being at Hamilton Avenue for a 95-year-old female who threatened to hang herself because her doctors want to give her COVID medicine case. All right. I'll get the medics going as well. Negative. We can get them started if you want. I'm guessing to be appropriate based on her statement. We have her on the phone now. She said she only said that so maybe they would change their mind and she was refusing by ex. She's home alone. One, I'm going to request them anyways. And they can figure it out from there. Then admin closed the drain track. Oh, I got nothing. Pometics run route. 94. Turn 94. You can have been closed that fingerprint. Now I'll go with Victor 1. Town 4.
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Location mentioned:
Near E Maple St, Lombard, IL 60148
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