Here’s a great photo of me and mom taken in Hawaii on my wedding day.
Kathie Gagne died 4,638 days ago.
October 10th, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
October 10th, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
My mom and I on my wedding day in Maui, Hawaii
October 9th, 2007 @ 9:02 pm
Mom and Jenny in Hawaii
October 9th, 2007 @ 8:51 pm
At my wedding in Hawaii
October 9th, 2007 @ 7:11 am
Kathleen and Jennifer Gagne
October 9, 2007
Maui, Hawaii
September 23rd, 2007 @ 6:07 pm
My wife and I got married in the Fall of 2007 in Hawaii, and the travel agent who helped us arrange everyone’s flights was sort of inefficient. Mom sent me this email a few weeks before the wedding.
From: Gagne, Kathleen
To: Gagne, David; Gagne, Jennifer
Subject: Maui Flight Information!!!
Sent: September 27, 2007 6:07 PMHI, Honey,
I hope your bachelor party was great fun (and seriously legal, hehe).
When will someone be sending Jen’s and my specific flight information? To date, all I have are times. No flight numbers or even carrier names.
Help…..
It would help if we each had our flight plans and/or confirmations SOON!!!
Is it up to [redacted]? Or You?
Love you,
Mom
September 16th, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Dear Mom,
It’s Sunday, September 16th. I’ll be 59 next Saturday.
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Donna Omer — looking for a dress for David’s wedding. I had lost 21 lbs, but now I’m back up.
I truly can’t imagine being at Dic’s for my birthday without you there. I miss you so much and truly hope you are in a better place.
I cry a lot. At silly things — I dream of you, and it hurts so much when I wake up.
I’m so alone. No one really cares what I’m doing at any given time. I feel like I could just fade away and no one would notice. You would.
It’s so much harder losing you than losing Dad. At least he didn’t suffer.
I wish I could feel your hug.
Love,
Kathie
Kathleen A. Gagne
September 3rd, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Hi, Mom,
You can’t imagine how much I miss you or how much I wish I could have spent more time with you.
I think of you every day, especially at 7:00 pm when I used to call you. My heart is broken, and, losing you, I feel as if I’ve lost rock, my balance, my comfort.
I miss your hugs. I miss taking you places and talking about cows in the fields.
I miss the silly / wonderful things you gave us all at Christmas, and I can’t imagine it without you.
Most of all, I just miss hearing your voice.
Dic and Amber call you all the time just to hear your greeting.
Love,
Kathie
Kathleen A. Gagne
September 2nd, 2007 @ 11:28 pm
September 2, 2007
Dear Everett,
Before it gets to late to do so, I would like to propose some changes in our Member configuration for this year.
We have some options, I hope, still available to us.
For example, I would like to offer two full-time slots back to Volunteer Florida. (It has been done before. Sometimes programs are looking for additional Members.)
Then I would like for you and me to aggressively place two half-time/half-price Members as soon as we can.
Finally, we can convert the remaining two half-time Members into four quarter-time Members.
Our original configuration was 12 full-time and six half-time. That number equaled 15 MSYs.
If we are able to return two full-time, place a total of four half-time, and convert the final two half-time to four quarter-time, we would be at :
10 FT = 10 MSY ($3,400)
4 HT = 2 MSY ($1,753 or $800)
4 QT = 1 MSY ($500)That would give us a total of 13 MSY, only two short of our original 15.
In addition, the QT Members would each cost around $500 for approximately 425 hours of tutoring.
Obviously, there would have to be a budget adjustment, but I think this plan would help us to get as close as we can to our original 15 MSYs and might save the program for next year.
If you like, I can call Paula Tuesday to confirm that the plan is viable.
Thanks again for all your help in trying to place Members. At this point, I honestly think we should go back to Finley, Frank, and John in addition to personal visits. Maybe Rawlings would take one or two quarter time Members. I’m sure he wants them.
from a file named Plan for saving the program.doc found on mom’s computer hard drive
July 25th, 2007 @ 7:30 am
While combing through mom’s old computer hard drive in the middle of March, 2013, I found a folder of letters mom had written after her mother — my maternal grandmother — died. “Nana Anna” died on May 4th, 2007 and it just completely devastated mom. It’s a cruel fact that mom died under very similar circumstances, and it’s even harder now for me to read how she was fighting for justice for her mother just as I am for her.
She wrote this letter to a Dr. Zimmerman of the Hospice of Volusia / Flagler on July 25, 2007:
Dear Dr. Zimmerman,
My name is Kathie Gagne. My mother, Anne Albanese, passed away at the Hospice of Volusia/Flagler Care Center on May 4th.
To refresh your memory, my mother was dropped on April 26th at 10:30 p.m. at the Indigo Manner Skilled Nursing Center. The staff stated that they had lowered her gently to the floor. They did not contact a doctor until the following Saturday morning, a period of approximately 36 hours during which my mother was in acute pain and crying for hlp.
Dr. Hatten, the orthopaedic surgeon who performed the necessary surgery was appalled. He stated to my brother and myself that there was no way my mother could have sustained those injuries if she had been lowered to the floor. He based his assessment on X-rays which clearly showed my mother’s right femur overlapping by at least 2.5 inches. Dr. Hatten also stated that my mother’s bone density was excellent.
My mother had arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease; however, the attending intensive care physician stated to myself, my brother, Jolie (Hospice), Tricia (Hospice), and a Halifax Hospital staff case worker, that my mother could have had 2 – 4 more years if she had not had to undergo major surgery.
I had a small Life Insurance policy on my mother, and now, even though the medical examiner clearly stated on her death certificate that my mother died as the result of an accident, the insurance company (Colonial Penn) continues to refuse to pay the full amount of the policy.
I’m providing you with this background due to the length of time since my mother died in order to refresh your memory, especially regarding a short conversation we had in the hall during which you advised me that you had not actually seen my mother. She was only there from around 9:00 p.m , May 3rd to around 4:00 p.m , May 4th.
What I am requesting from you is a simple letter stating that you did not observe my mother during the time that she was at the Hospice Care Center. She was there only overnight.
If you can, please send the letter to me at the above address so that I can forward it to the insurance company.
Thank you in advance,
Gratefully,Kathleen A. Gagne
