A Call from Cheryl
July 24th, 2012 @ 2:43 pm

Nurse Cheryl from Woodland Terrace just called me. (At first I thought it was Rosa Rivera because their voices sound very similar.) She said that she had my mom “close by” and wanted to know if I had time to talk to her. I said, “Yes! Of course I do!” Nurse Cheryl said she would […]

Being Kept on the Floor
July 21st, 2012 @ 3:43 pm

This afternoon at 3:43PM PDT I called Woodland Terrace in another attempt to talk to mom. Someone named Marty answered and I asked to speak to Kathie Gagne, in room 207 on the West wing. Marty asked if I knew if she was in the window bed or the hallway bed, and I said I […]

A Friend Visits
July 18th, 2012 @ 9:00 pm

I just got a phone call from mom’s friend from her Church in Florida. She was calling to let me know that she’d been called by someone named Nancy who claimed to be from the Patient Accounting Department at Halifax Hospital. Apparently Nancy thought that she was calling mom. Mom’s friend explained that she’d been […]

Trying to Talk to Mom
July 16th, 2012 @ 5:09 pm

I called Woodland Terrace on my way home from work tonight to try to talk to mom. Someone answered the phone on the second ring and I said that I was trying to get in touch with my mom, who was in room 207 on the West wing. The woman said, “That’s on the West […]

A Small Cut
July 16th, 2012 @ 4:30 pm

Nurse Cheryl, mom’s night nurse at Woodland Terrace, just called. She seemed to have no recollection of talking to me last week and I had to remind her that we’d talked. Whatever. She was calling to tell me that she was filing an incident report for mom. Nurse Cheryl said that a CNA had checked […]

Confirmation
July 16th, 2012 @ 1:33 pm

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 […]

A Visit to Woodland Terrace
July 11th, 2012 @ 1:20 pm

My brother-in-law just called to tell me that he had just left Woodland Terrace. He said that he talked to Sylvia Gray and that he was able to spend some time with mom. He said that Woodland Terrace was definitely much nicer in general than Coastal Rehab, where she had been from May 9th to […]

Trying to Talk to Mom
July 9th, 2012 @ 5:15 pm

I called Woodland Terrace when I left the office tonight in an attempt to get to talk to my mom. Someone answered the phone on the third or fourth ring and I just said, “Hi. My mom was just transferred there from Halifax Hospital on Friday and I haven’t been able to talk to her […]

A Nurse Who Cares
July 9th, 2012 @ 7:07 am

I just finished a thirty-five minute phone call with Susan Macklefresh, the Director of Nursing at Woodland Terrace. Susan was unbelievably kind, considerate, and caring. She told me that when my mom was transferred from Halifax Hospital on Friday, they had neglected to include in her chart what medications to administer, and that when a […]

Searching for Woodland Terrace
July 8th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm

I tried Google searching for a website for Woodland Terrace. I looked for “woodland terrace” and “woodland terrace daytona” but couldn’t find an official website for the facility on the first search engine results page. I did find a link to the local-nursing-homes.com site, where someone posted a one-star review of Woodland Terrace and noted: […]