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Update
December 12th, 2011 @ 1:27 pm

I just received the following email from Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman: David, I can see how is difficult for you to not see your mother snap back to he Functioning self – We hope that she will improve however I don’t know her recovery time-line & to what degree she will recover fully – I […]

Re: Kathleen Gagne
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:26 am

This is an email I just sent to Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman: Sophia, I am copying my sister [name redacted] on this email. I called and talked to my mom for about five minutes on Friday night. (It was about 8:30pm your time.) She seemed to not understand that she wasn’t in her own apartment. […]

RE: Kathleen Gagne
December 9th, 2011 @ 2:23 pm

I just received the following email from Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman, in response to my email to her detailing the current medications mom has been taking: David, Got it! – In addition to the Respirdal Mtab 2mg BID and the Aricept 5mg po in the am she is taking; Multivitamin B Complex Septra DS for […]

Sophia Mas Conversation
December 9th, 2011 @ 12:18 pm

Here is an email I sent to my sister: [name redacted], Sophia Mas called me this morning while I was walking back from Starbucks with two of my coworkers. I returned to Starbucks and talked to her for a little more than 45 minutes. She told me that mom had been desperate to talk to […]

Walking to Starbucks
December 9th, 2011 @ 10:30 am

Sophia Mas from Stewart-Marchman ACT called me while I was walking back from Starbucks with some of my coworkers. We talked for forty-five minutes. I basically gave her an entire history of mom’s life. Sophia told me that my sister had talked to mom that morning.

A List of Doctors and Medications
December 8th, 2011 @ 2:30 pm

Here is an email I sent to Rodney Curtis 1 2, the discharge coordinator at Stewart-Marchman, and copied to my sister: Rodney, Thanks for talking to me today. Here is the information I have regarding which medications my mother was taking prior to being admitted to Stewart-Marchman, and the doctors she’s been seeing. This information […]

A Message from Sophia Mas
December 8th, 2011 @ 12:50 pm

Sophia Mas from Stewart-Marchman Act left me a voice mail. Here is a transcript of the message: “David, this is Sophia Mas. I’m a therapist with your mother and Dr. Caliendo received this message from you after he had left so he won’t be here ’til tomorrow but if you want to leave me a […]

Three Calls
December 8th, 2011 @ 9:15 am

At 9:15 AM I called and talked to Myra at the nurses station at Stewart-Marchman ACT. She explained the difference between an involuntary release and a discharge. At 11:15 AM I called in an attempt to talk to Dr. Caliendo. I was told he was with patients and unavailable. I left a message asking to […]

Re: Kathie doctor info
December 7th, 2011 @ 7:35 pm

I received the following email from our family friend, in response to my previous email about mom likely not ever being able to live on her own again: Understood, The DCF investigator returned my call and left me a voice message that said he only knew of one state hospital close: Macclenny. I googled it […]

A Dramatic Turn
December 7th, 2011 @ 9:28 am

I just sent the following email to my mom’s friend in Florida who has been helping us: Hey [name redacted], I sincerely appreciate it. Thank you. Unfortunately at this point there is no way mom can live by herself any longer. I have personally heard her making veiled threats to kill herself, and you have […]