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 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 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 called and talked to a nurse named Dan for about a half-hour this morning. He told me that her doctor is Dr. Caliendo, although I already knew that. We discussed her current medication schedule and he said that Dr. Caliendo had recently prescribed: Benadryl to calm her a little and as an anti-anxiety drug […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]