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Nurse Karen
June 12th, 2012 @ 7:30 am

I just called the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit in another attempt to talk to mom. She’s currently in room 1435A in the France Tower. Eventually I was connected to Nurse Karen and we talked for about thirty minutes; I had to give the entire history of mom’s condition again because Nurse Karen knew nothing, of […]

Reaching Out
June 11th, 2012 @ 3:34 pm

On June 11th, 2012 I emailed my friend’s dad, who is a lawyer in California, to ask him for some advice about what happened to mom when she had a colonoscopy at Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach, FL:   From: David V. Gagne To: [redacted] Sent: June 11, 2012 @ 03:34 PM PDT Hey [redacted], […]

The New Hospitalist
June 11th, 2012 @ 1:20 pm

I just had a short phone call with Dr. Anwer, the new attending hospitalist for mom at the Halifax Psychiatric Unit. He told me that he would try to get a psychiatrist to see her. I tried to explain to him that I thought my mom’s problems weren’t ever going to be solved by continuing […]

What the hell?!
June 11th, 2012 @ 8:00 am

I called the Halifax Psychiatric Unit in another attempt at talking to mom. Someone answered the phone almost immediately, then when I asked to speak to my mom I was put on hold for eleven full minutes. Finally Nurse Ramos answered and we spoke for quite some time. She told me that mom had been […]

Moved Rooms
June 11th, 2012 @ 7:43 am

I called Halifax Hospital to try to talk to mom this morning. I was feeling very guilty because I had not called for two or three days, primarily because I have just been mentally exhausted from dealing with this whole situation. I was told that she was moved on the 8th to room 1402A in […]

Dr. Nasr Finally Calls
June 7th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm

Dr. Nasr finally called to let me know that all of my mom’s “blood work had returned negative”. He said that they were still unsure of whether the scope was actually run through the autoclave because they were “missing the records” concerning it. He also told me that one nurse was terminated and another nurse […]

A Happy Update
June 5th, 2012 @ 5:32 pm

I received a voice mail from my mom’s friend from church. Here is a transcript of the message: “Hey David, it’s [name redacted]. I’m just touching base with you. I was in Orlando today all day for training so I didn’t get to visit your mom. But I visited with her on Monday and she […]

One-Word Answers
June 4th, 2012 @ 9:24 am

An email to my sister: I talked to a nurse named Terri this morning at Halifax. There is a new nurse assigned to her basically every 48 hours, so every other day I need to spend fifteen or twenty minutes explaining the last 63 years to someone new. She was just starting physical therapy when […]