I called and managed to actually talk to mom today. The phone call lasted fifteen minutes. The first eight were spent on hold and / or waiting for someone to find mom. But I did get to speak to mom for about seven minutes. Here are my notes from the call: mom was not really […]
I received a voice mail from my mom’s friend from her church. Here is a portion of the message: “… Thought I’d give you a call. Saw your mom today. Looking much better. Just had a couple questions for ya. You can call me back at your convenience. Buh-bye.”
At 8:00 AM PST I called the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit and left a voicemail for Connie Wade. She returned my call ten minutes later. Here are my notes from the call: Connie said she hadn’t received the voicemail I left for her on Friday, February 3rd, was out Monday and Tuesday, and had been […]
I called the line for the “day room” at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit. An unidentified man answered and said, “Okay. Hold on,” when I asked to speak to Kathie Gagne. A few minutes later he returned to the line and said, “She’s talking with her social worker now. Can you call back in like […]
Here is a portion of an email my sister sent to me: […] Thank you for including me in the email to Connie. […] I just wanted to clarify that Mom went to Stewart-Marchman on Dec 1. She was brought to the hospital in Deland that day where she received the CT-Scan. […] I miss […]
I sent this email to Connie Wade: Dear Connie, I hope this message finds you well. I’m copying here my little sister, [name redacted], who is the daughter and only other child of Kathleen, and my wife, [name redacted], who earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and has known my mother for twenty years. (Also please […]
I repeatedly called the “day room” at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit, but the line was busy. Then I called the “main line” and Julie answered the phone. I talked to her for about ten minutes. She told me that Dr. Caliendo is very well-respected and she really likes him. She also told me that […]
Nurse Patty from the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit called me. She said mom was waiting by the phone, but very restless and anxious today. She switched me to the line for the phone next to mom. Mom answered the phone. We talked for about ten minutes. Mom was very sad. She said she thinks that […]
I called to try to talk to mom, but was told that she was asleep. It’s so disappointing to not get to talk to her on a regular basis. I talked to my mom pretty much every single day for the first 38 1/2 years of my life. To suddenly go for days and days […]
I talked to mom at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit this morning. She sounded really, really good. She wasn’t exactly ready to take on the world or anything, but she was alert and lucid. She told me that she still had not received any books. (My uncle — her brother — had told me he […]