My good friend emailed me in response to something he saw me write about how the “hold music” was nicer at where she is now. He asked me: What do the doctors say? Can you eventually visit? I sent him a very long reply: Ah. I hadn’t told you about the previous place. When she […]
I just called my mom. I thought maybe if I talked to her in the middle of the day instead of at night she might be more alert / rational. A man answered the phone in the common room at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Center, and said, “Hello?” I said, “I’m calling to talk to […]
Nurse Brian called from the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit because mom was apparently acting really crazy. He said they had to move her to another unit because she was making all the other patients anxious — grabbing at them, going into their rooms, etc. He wanted to get my permission to give mom Haldol “as […]
I tried to call the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit to talk to mom, but was told she was asleep. Nurse Pat said she’d make sure to call me if mom woke up at all in the night.
Dr. Caliendo called me at 5:15 AM PST and we had a thirty-five minute conversation. I gave him permission to administer Zyprexa to try to stabilize mom. I tried to give him a history of mom’s medical and psychological issues, but he made it clear that he was spending much too long on the phone […]
At about nine o’clock tonight someone from the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit left me a voice mail asking me to call as soon as possible. (I didn’t get to listen to the message until about 9:30 PM PST.) I was told that mom was being very anxious and the nurse wanted my permission to give […]
Here are my notes from January 28th, 2012: 10:30 am – 11:30 am: made several attempts to talk to mom; she was asleep and / or unable to come to the phone; very sad 12:45 pm: [name redacted] called; said mom asked for books and that he visited her on Friday, January 27th and that […]
I had to go to San Francisco on a business trip. I called mom from the Oakland Airport while waiting for my flight home. (I called mom any time I ever got on a plane, because she was always so afraid of flying.) We only talked for about three minutes and she was very agitated […]
I received a voice mail from Constance Wade this afternoon: “Hello. It’s Connie, from Halifax, just letting you know that your mother was retained at Baker Act court and I’m hopeful that you’re gonna get the booklet and the test 1 soon and you can just send us the test back and hopefully, y’know, your […]
I called Halifax to try to talk to mom. It took me about ten minutes to finally get someone to get her to a telephone. I only had time to say hello and ask her how she was doing when she said she had to go to sleep because she was exhausted. I called again […]