I received the following email from our family friend, in response to my previous email about mom likely not ever being able to live on her own again: Understood, The DCF investigator returned my call and left me a voice message that said he only knew of one state hospital close: Macclenny. I googled it […]
I received the following email from our family friend in Florida who has been helping us deal with mom: David, Dr. Stephen Oh is her psychiatric doctor – 386/258-6455 Dr. Dahila Fulop is her psychologist – Neurology Associates – 386/673-2500 Dr. Dannie Buck is her internist – 386/676-0505 I called and left a message for […]
My mom’s friend from church called me and left me the following voice mail: Hi, David. It’s [name redacted]. Just wanted to touch base and see if you all had a chance to talk to Kathie’s doctors, and got a plan of some type going. If you could, give me a call when you have […]
I received the following email from mom’s friend from her Church in Florida: David, I took your mom to Dr. Oh two Wednesdays ago. He is her private doctor with his own office and he is paid when services are rendered. She normally pays — this time I fronted her the money and [name redacted] […]
My mom’s friend from church sent me this email just three months before her life completely fell to pieces. The subject line was “your mom’s debit card”. After reading what she said about what Dr. Oh told her, I was (not for the last time) filled with tremendous hope that my mom would be able […]
My sister sent me this email: Yo, Bro. I talked to [name redacted] this morning. She hasn’t talked to Mom since Sunday, but I am sure she is fine. [name redacted] says that Dr. Fulop, the neurologist, is not happy with Dr. Oh. I am not entirely thrilled with him either and think it would […]
I sent this email to my mom’s friend from her church. This kind woman did just about everything she could over the last two or three years of my mom’s life to try to help her get organized, to try to help her get back on her feet. She took her grocery shopping and to […]
Here is a rather long email I sent to my mom to try to summarize her (pretty dire) financial situation at the beginning of 2010: Mom, Your Best Buy credit card is now completely paid off. If you get any more bills from them, please let me know. When you get the next statement from […]
I still have access to mom’s old Yahoo! email account. In her “drafts” folder I found an email written to me but never sent: From: Gagne, Kathleen <djksolo@yahoo.com> To: Gagne, David Subject: Visit with Andrew Garver Sent: January 26, 2010 10:55 AM Dear David, I need you to put some money on one of […]
This is the last email I received from my mom: Dear David, I personally contacted a representative at Daytona Beach State College asking if I could get free counselling. She advised me that I was not eligible for free counselling because I am not a student at the college. I then contacted Embry-Riddle University and […]