Near Disaster

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So most you know the airline lost my dad‘s CPAP machine, which he wanted to use as a carry-on. Well, what you do not know is that he also had sleeping pills. He takes about six a month (started when my mom kept him up all night when she had dementia ) goes without them a month and so on. Luckily, he brought them on the trip so he could sleep through the night and not constantly wake up because of the lack of CPAP machine. Well, he took one the other night and we almost had a disaster. My stepmom woke up to him, putting on his jacket over his night clothes, and telling her he wanted to go get a pizza. She said she’d go get him one, but he insisted that he would go get one. It was then she noticed he was sleeping walking while under the effects of the sleeping pill. He walked out the door unsteadily and started going down the hallway where he encountered a woman and a wheelchair and she asked for their help because she was stuck on the doorway so she and my dad started trying to pull the woman out and pull the woman out and finally they got her out. Well, he starts walking towards the deck to go outside and see what’s out there and she panics thinking he’s gonna go overboard, but he stays inside and goes looking for a pizza. He finds one on the Lido deck, eats the whole thing and then starts walking around. She begs him to go back to the room, where he finally goes. He then goes back to sleep, wakes up in the morning, and remembers nothing. He still can’t believe he did it, and said he won’t be taking another one. Poor guy just hasn’t slept well since my mom got sick decades ago. Barely even takes Advil.