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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
My sister sent me this email in response to the news about the possibly unsterilized endoscope: No, David, I had not heard about the endoscope. I don’t even know what to say about that. At this point, I don’t think I would be surprised if they told us that a moose ran into Mom’s room […]
I received a call from Dr. Bratu at Halifax Hospital. He said that he had prescribed mom some medication for inflammation of her bowels and colon, and that he wants to perform a thorough colonoscopy as soon as possible (maybe early next week).
Someone gave me the email address for Deborah Reid, the Nurse Manager for ICU at Halifax Hospital. (I never sent her an email.)
I just sent the following email to my sister: Hey [name redacted], Nurse Patty — the same one who was there yesterday (Tuesday, May 29) — called me at 4:45 this morning to tell me that there was blood in mom’s stool. She called so they could get my permission to perform another colonoscopy. I […]