'We're Worried Sick': Brooklyn Family Looks For Missing Grandma

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A family in Brooklyn is "worried sick" searching for their mother and grandmother two days after she went to the corner store and never came home.

Family believe 72-year-old Ann Mariel Thomson, who suffers from dementia, might have turned the wrong way on 45th Street when heading home Sunday from a regular trip to the corner store near her Sunset Park apartment, her son said.

She hasn't been seen since 6 p.m. Sunday.

"We're really worried now that it's the second day," said Sam Thomson, who has been living with his mom. "She is a caring mother and grandmother and one of the kindest people I know...It's really scary."

Thomson said he realized something was wrong when it was taking longer than usual for his mother to get back from the store, which sits only a minute walk from their 45th Street apartment near Sixth Avenue.

"She usually doesn't have any problem going to the store," Sam said.

The cashier at the store would later tell police that Ann had been at the grocery, but seemed to go in a different direction when she left. She was last seen walking east, instead of west, on 45th Street.

Ann, who also goes by Mariel, suffers moments of confusion due to her dementia, but "is not so bad that she wouldn’t recognize her name or anything like that," Sam said.

He worries, though, that she might be more confused now that she's been missing for multiple days.

The search has been made even harder given that Sam himself is on bed rest with a colon infection and unable to go out and look for his mom himself. Family and friends have been putting up posters, getting the word out on social media and searching for Ann while he waits at the apartment in case she returns, he said.

"I'm in a position where I should be going back to the hospital, but I'm trying to wait and see what happens," he said.

Ann was last seen wearing a black coat, burgundy sweat pants and black shoes.

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Update: Ann was found safe on Tuesday evening and has returned to her family.