I received the following voice mail from a nurse at Halifax Hospital: “Hello, David. This is Rhonda Spellers. I’m at Halifax Hospital. I spoke with you yesterday. I’m calling you because your mother is very fearful. She’s paranoid and anxious. She didn’t sleep again last night at all. She’s wandering in and out of patients’ […]
Here is an email I just sent to Constance Wade at Halifax (and copied my sister): Dear Connie, Thank you so much for taking the time to talk to me this morning. I very much appreciated your interpretation of the MRI she received on Friday, January 20, 2012. I am still somewhat in shock at […]
Nurse Rhonda from the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit called me again to ask about administering Namenda. She said it was prescribed by Dr. Mandeep Garewal; this is the first time I was informed of this doctor’s involvement in mom’s care at all. She told me that Dr. Garewal is the one who ordered the EEG […]
I had a very long phone call with Connie Wade at Halifax. She was calling to let me know that on January 26th, 2012 there would be another court hearing to institute a Baker Act again. Connie also told me that I am the designated GA. I asked her what a GA was and she […]
I received a phone call from Nurse Rhonda at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit. I was asleep and didn’t wake when the phone rang, but she left me a voice mail asking if I would give consent for mom to be put on Namenda. Here is a transcript of the message she left me: “Hi. […]
I sent this message to Judy Martin <Judy.Martin@HamptonManor.net> and copied my sister: Dear Judy, I never received a response to the message I sent last Wednesday, January 18, 2012. I’ve included it here again, and am copying my sister, [name redacted]. ([name redacted] lives in Seattle, WA.) On the evening of Thursday, January 19, 2012, […]
I just sent the following message to Delia Mcclain, Medicaid Client Services Specialist at ElderSource: Dear Delia, We spoke on Friday, January 20, 2012 at approximately 12:45pm Eastern time. This is regarding my mother: KATHLEEN ANNE GAGNE aka “KATHIE” GAGNE Maiden Name: [redacted] DOB: [redacted] SS#: [redacted] You had asked me to confirm her height […]
I started writing my mom a letter every day almost immediately after she was admitted to Stewart-Marchman at the beginning of December. I printed bunches and bunches of photos of my son and me, and I included two or three photos in almost every letter. When she was transferred from Stewart-Marchman to the Psychiatric Unit […]
I just received the following email from Constance Wade at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit: I am pleased to inform you a neurological evaluation has been ordered for your mother. We will be mailing the guardian advocate book and test to you. Please fill out the test and mail it back to us. Our nursing […]