SALT LAKE CITY — An 82-year-old man who slipped and fell in the bathtub of his Salt Lake City home says he was trapped there for five days.

Lou Beddow was found Tuesday by a neighbor who noticed Beddow hadn't been walking his dog for a while.

The retired postal carrier says he survived on tap water after he slipped and fell in the tub Friday.

Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag (free-TAG') says Beddow was hospitalized in serious condition and may have suffered compression injuries.

Police in a Milwaukee suburb say they also found an elderly woman who fell in her bathtub. The 86-year-old woman from Cudahy (cud-uh-HAY') was discovered Tuesday and says she was trapped for four days. She was hospitalized, but her condition is not known.

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Information from:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, http://www.jsonline.com

KSL-TV, http://www.ksl.com