Here is an exchange between me and mom’s good friend from her church, who spent an extraordinary amount of time working to help mom with all manner of things. I was doing my best to manage mom’s finances at the time, but since she had no income and wasn’t ever checking her mail, it was […]
Mom started really complaining about her memory at least two or three years before she died. I sent her this email one day, because I was convinced that it was something that was temporary: It turns out a little positive reinforcement won’t just help kids do better in school, it can help older adults do […]
Mom got in a car accident in October of 2009 and for some reason the guy she hit — or who hit her, I was never sure of exactly what happened — kept contacting her directly instead of going through their insurance companies. She asked me to help her deal with it because he was […]
Mom was having a really hard time dealing with her financial situation by the beginning of 2010. She was paralyzed with fear about going bankrupt and had already been forced to move into an apartment after the bank foreclosed on her house. She would go for weeks without opening her mail and then be surprised […]
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 found an email that mom sent to my sister regarding me. The subject line was “Jen, Have you talked to David lately?” Mom wrote: Dear Jen, David told me yesterday that he was going to divert all of my mail to his address. He really has no right to do so. I know he’s […]
I found this email in my mom’s “Drafts” folder. It’s an email she never sent to me, from late January of 2010: David, We/I only have until February 2 to declare whether I stay in this unit or try to find a smaller place to live in. I honestly don’t think that I can move […]
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 […]
September 9, 2012: I finally managed to get into my mom’s Yahoo! mail account. I had tried to get into it a few days after she died, but I got a message telling me that because she hadn’t authenticated in over four months, her account had been purged. I tried again tonight just for the […]
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 […]