Growing Concern
January 9th, 2012 @ 10:58 am

I just sent the following email to Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman (and copied my sister): Dear Sophia, Can you please send me the email address for Rodney Curtis, the discharge coordinator there? I have emailed him several times and never received a response; I suspect that he gave me an incorrect address when we spoke […]

A Long, Long Conference Call
January 5th, 2012 @ 11:20 am

Sophia Mas called from Stewart-Marchman with mom in the room with her on speakerphone, and we conferenced in my sister. Sophia began the call by saying that it was time for mom to go somewhere else. She said that yesterday she met with a “lady” who was an administrator at Lakewood. Sophia noted that all […]

A Call from a Friend
December 16th, 2011 @ 10:03 am

My mom’s friend from her church called me. I couldn’t get to the phone, but here is a transcript of the message she left me: “David, it’s [name redacted]. About one o’clock Eastern standard time. I’m on my way out to Stewart[-Marchman] to bring your mother some of her clothes, like, y’know underwear and undergarments, […]

Her Functioning Self
December 12th, 2011 @ 2:49 pm

I sent this email to Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman: Hello, Sophia, I am again copying my sister [name redacted] on this email. I unfortunately do not expect my mom to snap back to her functioning self very quickly. It would be difficult for me to qualify exactly what “her functioning self” might be, because — […]

Update
December 12th, 2011 @ 1:27 pm

I just received the following email from Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman: David, I can see how is difficult for you to not see your mother snap back to he Functioning self – We hope that she will improve however I don’t know her recovery time-line & to what degree she will recover fully – I […]

Re: Kathleen Gagne
December 12th, 2011 @ 11:26 am

This is an email I just sent to Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman: Sophia, I am copying my sister [name redacted] on this email. I called and talked to my mom for about five minutes on Friday night. (It was about 8:30pm your time.) She seemed to not understand that she wasn’t in her own apartment. […]

RE: Kathleen Gagne
December 9th, 2011 @ 2:23 pm

I just received the following email from Sophia Mas at Stewart-Marchman, in response to my email to her detailing the current medications mom has been taking: David, Got it! – In addition to the Respirdal Mtab 2mg BID and the Aricept 5mg po in the am she is taking; Multivitamin B Complex Septra DS for […]

A List of Doctors and Medications
December 8th, 2011 @ 2:30 pm

Here is an email I sent to Rodney Curtis 1 2, the discharge coordinator at Stewart-Marchman, and copied to my sister: Rodney, Thanks for talking to me today. Here is the information I have regarding which medications my mother was taking prior to being admitted to Stewart-Marchman, and the doctors she’s been seeing. This information […]

Re: Kathie doctor info
December 7th, 2011 @ 7:35 pm

I received the following email from our family friend, in response to my previous email about mom likely not ever being able to live on her own again: Understood, The DCF investigator returned my call and left me a voice message that said he only knew of one state hospital close: Macclenny. I googled it […]

Trying to Get Information
December 7th, 2011 @ 8:04 am

I sent this email to my mom’s friend from her church: Thanks so much for sending this information. Do you also have any details about her current medications and schedule for taking them? That might be helpful to have. [My wife] and I had to put our dog Buddie down yesterday, and we are both […]