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 […]
I just called my mom. I thought maybe if I talked to her in the middle of the day instead of at night she might be more alert / rational. A man answered the phone in the common room at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Center, and said, “Hello?” I said, “I’m calling to talk to […]
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 […]
I tried to call the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit to talk to mom, but was told she was asleep. Nurse Pat said she’d make sure to call me if mom woke up at all in the night.
I received a voice mail from Constance Wade this afternoon: “Hello. It’s Connie, from Halifax, just letting you know that your mother was retained at Baker Act court and I’m hopeful that you’re gonna get the booklet and the test 1 soon and you can just send us the test back and hopefully, y’know, your […]
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 […]
I received the following voice mail from a nurse at Halifax Hospital: “Hello, David. This is Rhonda Spellers. I’m at Halifax Hospital. I spoke with you yesterday. I’m calling you because your mother is very fearful. She’s paranoid and anxious. She didn’t sleep again last night at all. She’s wandering in and out of patients’ […]
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 […]
I received a phone call from Nurse Rhonda at the Halifax Hospital Psychiatric Unit. I was asleep and didn’t wake when the phone rang, but she left me a voice mail asking if I would give consent for mom to be put on Namenda. Here is a transcript of the message she left me: “Hi. […]