I sent an email to Delia to follow up on her last message to me, in which she promised to talk to her supervisor and contact me: From: Gagne, David To: McClain, Delia <Delia McClainD@elderaffairs.org> Subject: Re: Status Update Sent: February 23, 2012 5:55 PM PT Dear Delia, Last week you advised that you […]
I received the following email from my sister today: David, I met Connie & Marilyn today. Marilyn thinks that where Mom is at now is what her baseline is going to be. Neither of them seems to think Mom is going to improve, and that at best we can improve her environment. Connie was saying […]
Delia McClain, the Medicaid Client Services Specialist with ElderSource, responded to my plea for help with this email: Good morning Mr. Gagne, I am very sorry to say that at this time, nothing has changed regarding your mother’s status since we’d last communicated. Also, there is no new information for the Dementia program. If/when her […]
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 […]
A good friend of my little sister’s emailed me to ask how mom was doing. At first I started writing a long reply, but could never manage to finish it. Here is what I did send: Dear [name redacted], Thank you so much for your sweet note. I have tried to write you (and [name […]
I called and talked to a nurse named Dan for about a half-hour this morning. He told me that her doctor is Dr. Caliendo, although I already knew that. We discussed her current medication schedule and he said that Dr. Caliendo had recently prescribed: Benadryl to calm her a little and as an anti-anxiety drug […]
My good friend emailed me in response to something he saw me write about how the “hold music” was nicer at where she is now. He asked me: What do the doctors say? Can you eventually visit? I sent him a very long reply: Ah. I hadn’t told you about the previous place. When she […]
Dr. Caliendo called me at 5:15 AM PST and we had a thirty-five minute conversation. I gave him permission to administer Zyprexa to try to stabilize mom. I tried to give him a history of mom’s medical and psychological issues, but he made it clear that he was spending much too long on the phone […]
Nurse Rhonda from the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit called me again to ask about administering Namenda. She said it was prescribed by Dr. Mandeep Garewal; this is the first time I was informed of this doctor’s involvement in mom’s care at all. She told me that Dr. Garewal is the one who ordered the EEG […]
I had a very long phone call with Connie Wade at Halifax. She was calling to let me know that on January 26th, 2012 there would be another court hearing to institute a Baker Act again. Connie also told me that I am the designated GA. I asked her what a GA was and she […]