Reply from Gail re: : keep your cellphone on (fwd)

[Noelle <noelle>]

 > From: "Gail" <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:56:35 -0800
 > 
 >  Hi  Noelle,
 >  
 >  Yes he called me about an hour ago when I was home from visiting
 >  Don at the Mission Park skilled nursing facility for rehab.  I
 >  only have my cell phone on when I'm not home because I don't want
 >  to have to charge it up all the time.  I thought I made that clear
 >  to Mission Park, but maybe I didn't and will when I next go in
 >  again later today.
 >  
 >  Since I talked to you yesterday, I think late that afternoon or
 >  early eve.  Don fell again at that facility when he shouldn't have
 >  been getting up out of bed on his own.  He was taken, near by to
 >  that facility, Cottage Hosp.  who did a thorough evaluation and
 >  testing and found nothing more broken thankfully, so it must have
 >  been a soft fall.  However they did find that he has pneumonia in
 >  the left lower lung lobe and put him on antibiotics right away and
 >  returned him to Mission Park.  They have changed his room to # 243
 >  that is right across the nursing station so they can keep an eye
 >  on him which is good.  The patients' rooms don't have a phone, but
 >  if you like you can call their main number which is: 805-682-7443.
 >  A very nice male nurse while I was there helped him in his wheel
 >  chair to the bathroom in his room where he could sit on the toilet
 >  and have a bowel movement which is good.
 >  
 >  Don was more alert this AM although I mentioned to the nurses that
 >  someone should shave his face - that I had packed his electric
 >  shaver to do that - as he looks quite scruffy.  Last night I felt
 >  awful about the situation when I heard about that 2nd fall and was
 >  thinking of somehow doing more to change him to a better facility.
 >  But today after the hectic Thanksgiving, things seemed more calm
 >  down there, and I'm feeling more positive about the facility and
 >  think I will more so starting Mon.  when the weekend Holiday is
 >  over when things are back to normal at that facility.  That was a
 >  mistake to move him to there on Thanksgiving Day I feel, but the
 >  staff at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital wanted him to get going on
 >  being able to do more weight bearing to heal his right hip.
 > 
 >  Best,
 >  Gail
 > 
 >  -----Original  Message-----
 >  From: Noelle [http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg]
 >  Sent: Friday, November 29, 2024 12:26 PM
 >  To: Gail <http://www.cox.net/~g3>
 >  
 >  The occupational therapist called me because he called your
 >  cellphone number and you didn't answer.  I asked him if he called
 >  your other phone number and he said no.  At least they have both
 >  numbers.  I told him to call your home number.  He was asking
 >  questions I couldn't answer so I hope he is able to talk to you!