I received this email from my mom. It is one of the last times she emailed me: Dear David, I was up early today. I went to the UCF campus and spoke with a woman who was going to contact a psychologist, Dr. Faughty, who might be able to help me with some of my […]
In the middle of March, 2013, I found some files on mom’s old hard drive. This Microsoft Word document titled Personal Fears.doc was dated July 20, 2008, although she had entered June 23, 2008 when she began writing it. I’m not certain who Mary is. I am pretty sure she is a therapist mom was […]
1/14/07 Hi, Mom, I hate to keep saying it, but I’m so alone. I have no one I can count on except myself. How the hell did this happen to me? Did I drive my kids away? I’ve decided that I’m the only one who can change my life, but I don’t know where to […]
I found this letter on mom’s old computer hard drive. The file KATHLEEN A.doc was created on June 16th, 2007. I don’t know who Ms. Jackson is, but I assume it is someone that worked at Indigo Manor, the nursing home where my maternal grandmother died. Anna Sophia Albanese (aka “Nana”, “Nana Anna”, “Nana from […]
1/3/07 Hard day at work. Exhausted. Need to get to Dr. Akey, but no money. Lots of rain — no leak in living room. I wish I could figure out how to do it. I need to lose weight and keep it off. I’m scared. I don’t know about God. I wish I could […]
Here is a letter pulled from mom’s old computer hard drive. I have no way of knowing if she ever actually printed and mailed it to Dr. Akey. October 23, 2006 Dear Dr. Akey, In all the time I have been your patient, I have never received what I believe to be adequate support […]
On mom’s old computer I found a file dated May 15th, 2006 named Dr. Akey 5-25-06.doc.1 It’s clearly a letter to her doctor. We always joked that mom was a hypochondriac, primarily because she spent so much of her youth living upstairs from a funeral home and surrounded by death and stories of it. The […]
It’s been forever since I wrote last. Lots of things have stayed the same, some have changed. I didn’t have the colonoscopy in November. It was much later than that and it was okay. Now I’m facing a D&C, ugh, because my uterine wall has thickened. She doesn’t think she’ll find anything, but she wants […]
Tomorrow I start my new job — here goes. Today I had breakfast with Anita, Lunch with Jen and Alicia at Ballyhoo, and went to see Lord of the Rings for the third time with them. It was fun. I also increased the dose of my BP med per Dr. Wang. I need to have […]
March 25, 1970 Thank you for letting me talk to Joe yesterday and for the sun today and for smashing my finger in the press and going to Dr. Miano. I love you and I love your children. My prayers especially for Joe, Jake, Jerry, Kathy, Evelyn and all.