I called Woodland Terrace to see if I could get an update from Nurse Luanne since I hadn’t heard from her in over an hour. A woman named Marty answered the phone. I told her that I had talked to Nurse Luanne in the West wing about an hour ago and wanted to know if […]
I just received a phone call from Nurse Luanne at Woodland Terrace. She introduced herself and confirmed my identity and then said, “We’re going to be stopping the Ativan and starting her on Haldol.” I asked her why and she told me that she had talked to Dr. Peele and he had approved Haldol because […]
I called Woodland Terrace at six o’clock their time, as Dawn suggested a few hours ago, to get an update on my mom. A woman answered the phone and said, “Woodland Terrace. This is Marty. How may I help you?” I said that I was calling for Dawn in the West wing and she said […]
I just finished a thirty-minute phone call with Dr. Peele, the doctor who is seeing mom while she is at Woodland Terrace. After a quick introduction, I told him that the reason I wanted to talk to him was because of the prescription he’d given her for levothyroxine last week. Dr. Peele said that every […]
I just called Woodland Terrace and talked to Jessica, the Unit Manager, to confirm that they had stopped administering the levothyroxine. Jessica promised that they had, and that when Dr. Peele arrives tomorrow she will dial my number and hand him the phone to make sure he talks to me. She was extremely kind and […]
I sent the following email to Sherri Spillman and Sylvia Gray at Woodland Terrace (and copied my sister): Dear Sylvia and Sherri, Sherri called me at six-fifteen this morning because she said my mom had asked to speak with me. Sherri then let me speak with Jessica, the Unit Manager, because I had been asking […]
While I was having breakfast this morning, around quarter past six, I received a phone call from Woodland Terrace. It was Sherri Spillman, the Administrator of the facility. She apologized for calling me so early in the morning, but said that she was calling because she was talking to mom and she specifically asked to […]
I called Woodland Terrace in an attempt to speak with my mom. After a bit of explaining, I was eventually connected to Nurse Paula, who was assigned to my mom for the day. Nurse Paula said that my mom was in her bed and had been “quite a handful” all day. I asked her if […]
I spent well over an hour on the phone this morning simply trying to get anyone to give me additional information about my mom. First I called her room at Halifax Hospital to try to talk to mom, but Nurse Amber told me she was asleep. I called the main line (386) 425-0400 and asked […]
I received an email from a family friend in Florida who visited mom last week. She said: David, My daughter and I visited Kathie last week in that room. She seemed serene, so they must have her on meds that take the edge off. […] I will share the address with the folks at church. […]