In February of 2012 one of my good college friends asked me how mom was doing in an email about a different topic. I realized that I hadn’t told him anything about what had been happening, and that he was someone I could trust. So I wrote him a rather long synopsis of things. […]
I sent an email to Delia to follow up on her last message to me, in which she promised to talk to her supervisor and contact me: From: Gagne, David To: McClain, Delia <Delia McClainD@elderaffairs.org> Subject: Re: Status Update Sent: February 23, 2012 5:55 PM PT Dear Delia, Last week you advised that you […]
I received the following email from my sister today: David, I met Connie & Marilyn today. Marilyn thinks that where Mom is at now is what her baseline is going to be. Neither of them seems to think Mom is going to improve, and that at best we can improve her environment. Connie was saying […]
Delia McClain, the Medicaid Client Services Specialist with ElderSource, responded to my plea for help with this email: Good morning Mr. Gagne, I am very sorry to say that at this time, nothing has changed regarding your mother’s status since we’d last communicated. Also, there is no new information for the Dementia program. If/when her […]
My sister asked me to send this email to Connie Wade 1 at Halifax because apparently they were giving her a hard time about returning my mother’s personal items to her. 2 It is a fine example of their strict policy regarding the arbitrary enforcement of their other policies. 3 Dear Connie, This message is […]
I sent this email to Constance Wade 1 in an effort 2 to get an updated list of which medications were being given to my mother: Dear Connie, This message is in regards to: KATHLEEN ANNE GAGNE, aka “KATHIE” GAGNE, maiden name: [redacted] DOB: 09/22/1948, SS#: [redacted] Can I please acquire a copy of my […]
I called mom and was able to get her on the phone for a few minutes. It took me just shy of fifteen minutes of being on hold before someone finally got a phone into mom’s hands. [My sister] had just left. Mom only talked to me for a minute or two. She was very […]
I sent this email to Delia McClain, a Medicaid Client Services Specialist with ElderSource: Hello Delia, I’m writing to see if I can get a status update on my mother’s case. You had mentioned that — in addition to the waiting list for an assisted living facility assistance waiver — you were going to add […]
My sister visited my mom twice today at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit. She called me at 9:41 AM and we talked for eight minutes and then she called me again at 5:28 PM and we talked for eighteen minutes. Here are the notes I logged for the calls: [My sister] called me after visiting […]
On Valentine’s Day my sister flew to Florida. Mom’s friend from her church picked her up in Orlando and she spent the night at mom’s apartment. I was cautiously optimistic that maybe now things would start to get better.