My sister sent me this email in response to the news about the possibly unsterilized endoscope: No, David, I had not heard about the endoscope. I don’t even know what to say about that. At this point, I don’t think I would be surprised if they told us that a moose ran into Mom’s room […]
Someone gave me the email address for Deborah Reid, the Nurse Manager for ICU at Halifax Hospital. (I never sent her an email.)
I just sent the following email to my sister: Hey [name redacted], Nurse Patty — the same one who was there yesterday (Tuesday, May 29) — called me at 4:45 this morning to tell me that there was blood in mom’s stool. She called so they could get my permission to perform another colonoscopy. I […]
I just sent the following email: [name redacted], I’m copying [name redacted] on this since I haven’t had a chance to update her on my call with the hospital this morning yet, too. I’ll leave it up to [her] to update [name redacted] and / or [name redacted] if she wants. The nurse told me […]
I just received this email from my sister: Hi, David. So, I talked to Jessica at Coastal. Their beds are full, and I will need to find yet another facility that will be able to meet Mom’s needs, whatever they may be by the time she is able to leave AND that will also take […]
I just sent the following email to my sister: [name redacted], I just talked to Christy, the morning shift nurse on mom’s floor. She said that there were no significant changes during the night, but that mom seems to be responding well to the antibiotics; her body temperature (which had been dangerously low) has returned […]
I just sent this email to a few friends who asked about mom: I just returned from Florida. My wife and son and father-in-law were there with me from (late) Thursday night until yesterday (Tuesday) morning. My sister had been there for three straight months and finally left on Sunday morning. So when we left […]
I just returned from visiting mom in Florida and received an email from a friend asking me how it was. I replied: My sister had been there for three months and left on Sunday morning. So when I left Florida I was basically leaving my mom all alone. It was far, far worse than anything […]
My sister sent me this email: Coastal Rehab can be temporary for rehab or long-term. I think we will need to just count on it for temporary rehab (in terms of months) and see how Mom does. She will need to improve a lot for her to be able to go back to Grace Manor. […]