I called Marilyn in the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit at 386-254-4080 to confirm that she had a valid fax number for me. It’s 2012 and not 1989, of course, so I don’t have a fax machine at my house. I had to give her my office fax number. She told me she’d make sure to […]
My sister and I had a forty-three minute conference call with doctors, nurses, discharge coordinators, and administrators at Halifax Hospital. Dr. Caliendo talked to me as if I was a dumb ten-year old and I felt insulted and embarrassed, at times in tears during the call. Less than six months later, my mother would be […]
Here is an email I sent to my friend’s father-in-law, who works in the elder care industry and who had been offering me some advice. From: Gagne, David To: [redacted] Subject: Re: Questions for Monday Sent: March 2, 2012 3:41 AM ET Hello, [redacted], Thank you so, so much. I cannot possibly describe to […]
I spent a staggering sixty-nine minutes on the phone with a social worker named Marilyn at Halifax Hospital this afternoon. I took over a page of notes, and when the call was finished I was mentally and emotionally exhausted. Here are my notes from the call: 1240 – called Marilyn, social worker; super nice, smart, […]
About six months before mom died, my friend’s father-in-law wrote me a very nice email offering some of his contacts to potentially help us navigate the process of dealing with Medicaid and nursing homes, etc. From: [redacted] To: Gagne, David Subject: RE: Questions for Monday Sent: March 1, 2012 1:16 PM EST David: I’m […]
Late on February 29th, 2012, my friend’s wife replied to my frustrated email about administrators at Halifax Hospital suddenly wanting to discharge mom without having a good option of where she should go: From: [redacted] To: Gagne, David Subject: Re: Treatment Team Meeting 2.28.12 Sent: February 29, 2012 7:56 PM ET Any way you […]
I called and spoke to Maryann at Chamberlin Edmonds. We talked for twenty-seven minutes. Here are my notes from the call: 1417 called Maryann at ChamberlainEdmunds. They are a national company with offices in many hospitals; said their mission is to “help people with little or no health insurance.” Maryann was very nice. She said […]
Here is a voice mail I just received: “Mr. Gagne, this is Marilyn at Halifax in Daytona. I just gave [name redacted] a call to see if she could join us in a meeting on Friday, this Friday, eight-thirty in the morning, 1 to discuss the Medicaid application and that kind of thing that is […]
This is an email I sent to a friend of mine. From: Gagne, David To: [redacted] Subject: Fwd: Treatment Team Meeting 2.28.12 Sent: February 29, 2012 2:18 AM ET Hey [redacted], This is an email (see below) I received from my sister summarizing what was discussed at Monday’s treatment team meeting. I find it […]