Eight Phone Calls
June 25th, 2012 @ 7:15 am

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 […]

Another Explanation
June 22nd, 2012 @ 7:45 am

I called to talk to my mom, but she was asleep. There was yet another new nurse assigned to mom, so I spent twenty minutes (once again) telling Nurse Angel my mom’s life story.

Prescription Update
June 18th, 2012 @ 2:30 pm

I called Nurse Ramos and asked for an updated list of the medications my mom was being administered. She told me that she was currently being given only Namenda and Zoloft, a suppository 1, and Lopressor. Nurse Ramos said that my mom had not been visited by a psychologist or a psychiatrist since Friday, and […]

A Quick Chat with Mom
June 18th, 2012 @ 2:05 pm

I called Halifax Hospital to talk to mom. Nurse Ramos said she was very busy, but she took the time to transfer me to the phone in mom’s room so I could talk to her for a few minutes. Mom sounded almost, but not quite, as if she was what someone else might call “alert”. […]

Nurse Ramos
June 15th, 2012 @ 3:30 pm

I called and spoke with Nurse Ramos at Halifax Hospital. She told me that mom was eating well, which was nice to hear. Nurse Ramos said that mom had been seen by Dr. Greer on Thursday and Friday, and that he had said there was “nothing he could offer.” She also said that Dr. Anwer […]

Another Failed Attempt to Talk to Mom
June 13th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm

I called to try to talk to mom, but was told that there was “no nurse on the floor” and I’d need to try again later.

Nurse Karen
June 12th, 2012 @ 7:30 am

I just called the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit in another attempt to talk to mom. She’s currently in room 1435A in the France Tower. Eventually I was connected to Nurse Karen and we talked for about thirty minutes; I had to give the entire history of mom’s condition again because Nurse Karen knew nothing, of […]

What the hell?!
June 11th, 2012 @ 8:00 am

I called the Halifax Psychiatric Unit in another attempt at talking to mom. Someone answered the phone almost immediately, then when I asked to speak to my mom I was put on hold for eleven full minutes. Finally Nurse Ramos answered and we spoke for quite some time. She told me that mom had been […]

Dr. Nasr Finally Calls
June 7th, 2012 @ 12:30 pm

Dr. Nasr finally called to let me know that all of my mom’s “blood work had returned negative”. He said that they were still unsure of whether the scope was actually run through the autoclave because they were “missing the records” concerning it. He also told me that one nurse was terminated and another nurse […]

One-Word Answers
June 4th, 2012 @ 9:24 am

An email to my sister: I talked to a nurse named Terri this morning at Halifax. There is a new nurse assigned to her basically every 48 hours, so every other day I need to spend fifteen or twenty minutes explaining the last 63 years to someone new. She was just starting physical therapy when […]