Imagine you have dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and high blood pressure; now picture yourself lost. No one can find you. No one knows where you are. YOU don’t even know where you are. That is the defining picture of Paradise Lost. It’s a study on madness and not knowing how to break free. You can only guess the strange and unusual terror of someone facing that dilemma.

Someone did. Right in Poinciana, Florida. A man named Albert Rodd, age 67.

According to authorities, he was declared missing on late Monday. That’s a total of nearly twenty-four hours. For a man suffering from his conditions–dementia, Alzheimer’s, and especially high blood pressure–that can feel like a lifetime. You look around, and you don’t know who anyone is. In a way, you don’t even care. No one is taking care of you and your conditions. You don’t have your medications. Someone could easily take advantage of you, harm you, or even kill you. You’re at the mercy and whim of the fates deciding your life or death. That’s the fact of missing person cases. A horrifying fact.

Thankfully, Albert Rodd was found and seemed to be in good health, which sometimes isn’t the case for situations such as that. Most missing persons are never found, sometimes for years. But for this Paradise Lost case when a person succumbs to the convoluted visions of dementia and the paralyzing Alzheimer dreams of quiet pain, miracles do happen, at least for Albert Rodd.

Headed by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, they were relieved to retrieve the probably confused senior citizen safely on the morning of January 4th, 2011, right after the New Year was hailed. However no other details such as the process to which he became missing were released.

That of course doesn’t matter as much as the fact that Albert Rodd is safely home where he can be nurtured and cared for. A pleasant happy ending, paradise FOUND.