I just finished a thirty-minute phone call with Dr. Peele, the doctor who is seeing mom while she is at Woodland Terrace. After a quick introduction, I told him that the reason I wanted to talk to him was because of the prescription he’d given her for levothyroxine last week. Dr. Peele said that every […]
I just received a phone call from Rosa Rivero, the Admissions Coordinator at Woodland Terrace. She was very apologetic for calling me so early when I explained that it was 9AM here and not noon like it was there, and I did my best to let her know that I am usually awake by 6AM […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Someone named Rosa from Woodland Terrace called while I was walking to lunch this afternoon. We had an amicable twenty-minute phone call about mom and her care. She was calling to see if I was the right person with whom to discuss mom’s care. She began by talking to me as if I had no […]
While I was having breakfast this morning, around quarter past six, I received a phone call from Woodland Terrace. It was Sherri Spillman, the Administrator of the facility. She apologized for calling me so early in the morning, but said that she was calling because she was talking to mom and she specifically asked to […]
I just received a text message from my sister. She said: I talked to Mom a little this morning. She was actually a little responsive and seemed to understand when I said things to her. She said “I love you” and even said “see ya” when I said it.
When I talked to Sylvia Gray earlier today, she asked if there was any way I could provide some clothes for my mom. Coincidentally a few minutes later I received a text message from my sister asking me if our family friend could contact my in-laws about getting some of mom’s clothes to her at […]
My phone rang and Sylvia Gray, the Business Office Manager at Woodland Terrace, was on the line. She said that she was sitting with my mom, who was so excited to talk to me that she was crying. It was very sweet of her to say that, but I suspected my mom was just crying […]