A year ago, a resident of a Central Georgia nursing home climbed out of the window of her room and wandered off.
The staff at Pinehill Nursing Center in Byromville realized she was gone and launched a search. The woman had been reported to be delusional and refusing to take some of her prescribed medicine.
Thirty minutes later, two nursing aides spotted her on railroad tracks about a mile away. And they could hear a train approaching.
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