LYNN – A Lynn great-grandmother who was beaten, robbed and left lying in a pool of her own blood in front of her home on Eastern Avenue Monday, is warning other senior citizens to be wary of their surroundings.Sitting at her kitchen table, 89-year-old Geneva Sozanski gingerly patted her bandaged head and swollen-shut black eye with her bruised hands as she described her harrowing experience.”I’ve lived in Lynn for over 60 years and I’ve never had a problem,” she said in a soft-spoken voice. “Who would ever think that in front of my own home that someone would knock me down and steal my purse?”Sozanski said she was walking on the sidewalk near her home at around 1:15 p.m., when out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a black vehicle pull up alongside her.All of a sudden, Sozanski said, a man jumped out of the passenger side and started yanking on her arm to get her purse.”The next thing I know is that I woke up on the sidewalk and a fine young man who saw me on the ground as he was driving by, helped me and called the police,” she said. “I don’t know what happened, but I had to throw away my raincoat because it was covered in blood.”Sozanski’s grandson, David Sozanski, speculated that the robber hit his elderly grandmother over the head with some type of weapon with enough blunt force to knock her out and cause her to bleed profusely on the cold pavement.”I had to hose down the sidewalk because there was so much blood,” he said. “It was pretty gruesome.”Sozanski was taken by ambulance to Union Hospital, where she received several stitches to her head and treatment to multiple bruises on her hands, left leg and purple-tinged cheeks.Despite the brazen beating, Sozanski smiled and said she won’t let it get her down.”I’m a hearty Polish girl,” she said. “I can’t be afraid, I have to go out, I have to live. When I was younger, I would think nothing of it to walk home alone, but not anymore, I have to be really careful and so do other senior citizens.”So far, Lynn Police say they are looking into several leads on the case, but stressed that the investigation is active and ongoing.Sozanski said the road appeared eerily quiet at the time of the assault and that the chiropractic office located next door was not open that afternoon.”We’re hoping that someone with information on the case will come forward,” said police spokesman Lt. William Sharpe.Anyone with information is asked to either call 781-595-2000 or submit an anonymous tip by texting the word tiplynn on a mobile device to tip411 or 847411 or from the department’s Web site at www.lynnpolice.org and clicking the “submit tip” icon.