I just received the following email from Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman, in response to my email to her detailing the current medications mom has been taking: David, Got it! – In addition to the Respirdal Mtab 2mg BID and the Aricept 5mg po in the am she is taking; Multivitamin B Complex Septra DS for […]
Here is an email I sent to my sister: [name redacted], Sophia Mas called me this morning while I was walking back from Starbucks with two of my coworkers. I returned to Starbucks and talked to her for a little more than 45 minutes. She told me that mom had been desperate to talk to […]
Here is an email I sent to Rodney Curtis 1 2, the discharge coordinator at Stewart-Marchman, and copied to my sister: Rodney, Thanks for talking to me today. Here is the information I have regarding which medications my mother was taking prior to being admitted to Stewart-Marchman, and the doctors she’s been seeing. This information […]
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 just sent the following email to my mom’s friend in Florida who has been helping us: Hey [name redacted], I sincerely appreciate it. Thank you. Unfortunately at this point there is no way mom can live by herself any longer. I have personally heard her making veiled threats to kill herself, and you have […]
I sent this email to my mom’s friend from her church: Thanks so much for sending this information. Do you also have any details about her current medications and schedule for taking them? That might be helpful to have. [My wife] and I had to put our dog Buddie down yesterday, and we are both […]
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 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 […]
Here are some portions of an email my sister sent me: […] I was having a couple of sad days just grieving over Mom and what is happening in her head. She asked me if I wanted to come to her house Friday night for dinner. It broke my heart because she was sincere, and […]
My mother’s friend from church asked my little sister to write a “cover letter” which she could bring with her when visiting doctors. My sister emailed me a copy. Here is what she wrote: To Whom It May Concern: My mother, Kathleen Gagne, has recently been displaying some short-term memory deficiencies and difficulties functioning in […]