I sent this email to Constance Wade 1 in an effort 2 to get an updated list of which medications were being given to my mother: Dear Connie, This message is in regards to: KATHLEEN ANNE GAGNE, aka “KATHIE” GAGNE, maiden name: [redacted] DOB: 09/22/1948, SS#: [redacted] Can I please acquire a copy of my […]
I called mom and was able to get her on the phone for a few minutes. It took me just shy of fifteen minutes of being on hold before someone finally got a phone into mom’s hands. [My sister] had just left. Mom only talked to me for a minute or two. She was very […]
My sister visited my mom twice today at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit. She called me at 9:41 AM and we talked for eight minutes and then she called me again at 5:28 PM and we talked for eighteen minutes. Here are the notes I logged for the calls: [My sister] called me after visiting […]
At 8:00 AM PST I called the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit and left a voicemail for Connie Wade. She returned my call ten minutes later. Here are my notes from the call: Connie said she hadn’t received the voicemail I left for her on Friday, February 3rd, was out Monday and Tuesday, and had been […]
I called the line for the “day room” at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit. An unidentified man answered and said, “Okay. Hold on,” when I asked to speak to Kathie Gagne. A few minutes later he returned to the line and said, “She’s talking with her social worker now. Can you call back in like […]
I sent this email to Connie Wade: Dear Connie, I hope this message finds you well. I’m copying here my little sister, [name redacted], who is the daughter and only other child of Kathleen, and my wife, [name redacted], who earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and has known my mother for twenty years. (Also please […]
I repeatedly called the “day room” at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit, but the line was busy. Then I called the “main line” and Julie answered the phone. I talked to her for about ten minutes. She told me that Dr. Caliendo is very well-respected and she really likes him. She also told me that […]
Nurse Patty from the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit called me. She said mom was waiting by the phone, but very restless and anxious today. She switched me to the line for the phone next to mom. Mom answered the phone. We talked for about ten minutes. Mom was very sad. She said she thinks that […]
I talked to mom at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit this morning. She sounded really, really good. She wasn’t exactly ready to take on the world or anything, but she was alert and lucid. She told me that she still had not received any books. (My uncle — her brother — had told me he […]
I tried calling the common room at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit, since that seemed to give me the best chance of getting someone who could get mom on the phone. The line just rang and rang for a solid minute, and then someone clearly picked up the telephone and just started randomly hitting buttons […]