I received the following email from mom’s friend from her Church in Florida: David, I took your mom to Dr. Oh two Wednesdays ago. He is her private doctor with his own office and he is paid when services are rendered. She normally pays — this time I fronted her the money and [name redacted] […]
My mom’s friend from church sent me this email just three months before her life completely fell to pieces. The subject line was “your mom’s debit card”. After reading what she said about what Dr. Oh told her, I was (not for the last time) filled with tremendous hope that my mom would be able […]
My sister sent me this email: Yo, Bro. I talked to [name redacted] this morning. She hasn’t talked to Mom since Sunday, but I am sure she is fine. [name redacted] says that Dr. Fulop, the neurologist, is not happy with Dr. Oh. I am not entirely thrilled with him either and think it would […]
Mom’s dear friend wrote a long email to me and my sister on July 10th, 2010. In it she detailed how she had helped mom move into a new apartment at The Park and what her new surroundings were like: Sent: July 10, 2010 @ 07:19 AM PDTSubject: Kathy David & Jennifer, Week 1 […]
On the afternoon of July 1st, 2010 I emailed mom’s friend who was helping her move from the apartment on the river, which she loved, to a less expensive place in Port Orange. Sent: July 1, 2010 @ 01:52 PM PDTSubject: Re: Kathie your mother Hey [redacted], Is there any news? I talked to […]
In the middle of March, 2013, I found some files on mom’s old hard drive. This Microsoft Word document titled Personal Fears.doc was dated July 20, 2008, although she had entered June 23, 2008 when she began writing it. I’m not certain who Mary is. I am pretty sure she is a therapist mom was […]
On mom’s old computer I found a file dated May 15th, 2006 named Dr. Akey 5-25-06.doc.1 It’s clearly a letter to her doctor. We always joked that mom was a hypochondriac, primarily because she spent so much of her youth living upstairs from a funeral home and surrounded by death and stories of it. The […]
Tomorrow I start my new job — here goes. Today I had breakfast with Anita, Lunch with Jen and Alicia at Ballyhoo, and went to see Lord of the Rings for the third time with them. It was fun. I also increased the dose of my BP med per Dr. Wang. I need to have […]