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 […]
A friend of mine asked me what was happening with my mom at the beginning of February. Here is the reply I sent him: It’s a long story. Something happened to her brain, but it wasn’t a stroke. They’re not really sure. She’s been having memory problems for about two years, but I just was […]
I tried calling the common room at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit, since that seemed to give me the best chance of getting someone who could get mom on the phone. The line just rang and rang for a solid minute, and then someone clearly picked up the telephone and just started randomly hitting buttons […]
My wife asked me to send her the phone numbers I had for the hospital, because she wanted to attempt to speak to my mother. Here is the email I sent her: Dear [name redacted], The “common room” is the day room where mom can talk on the phone. She’s almost never there by default, […]
I called Stewart-Marchman and Julie answered the phone. I asked if I could talk to my mom and she put me on hold for ten full minutes. Then I heard ringing on the other end of the line, and a tech answered and said he’d bring mom to the phone. A few minutes later Nurse […]