Postal worker, neighbours credited in woman’s rescue from tub

CHESANING, Mich. – An alert postal worker and neighbours are being credited for discovering a Michigan woman who was stuck in a bathtub for five days.

Alison Gibson of Chesaning tells WJRT-TV she sat in the tub Oct. 15 but couldn’t get up because a handrail was out of reach. She drank cold water from the tub faucet and used hot water to stay warm.

She says she “basically just sat there” hoping for rescue.

The postal worker told neighbours Oct. 19 that mail was piling up at the home about 75 miles (120 kilometres) northwest of Detroit, so the neighbours yelled to Gibson.

Chesaning police Chief Stacey Wilburn tells MLive.com she and another officer climbed through a window to rescue the 54-year-old woman. Gibson spent a few days in the hospital, but is OK.