[Magdalen] Mom update (Elicits "Whew!").

[Ginga Wilder]

Sounds like a good move, Mike.  I hope she will thrive in her new
environment.
Ginga

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 1:45 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> I just got a call from the exec dir of Mom's joint, and recently
> (yesterday? this morning? not sure) she took another fall.  No damage, not
> hurt, but it did require staff hauling ass upstairs to help her up and give
> her a once-over.  Staff basically immediately decided, and Kenneth
> concurred (me too), that it's now time for assisted living permanently.
> She seems in good spirits about it, exec dir says (we'll see what kind of
> email I get about it later!), and indeed it really is a deal worth the
> money she pays for it.  Her new apartment will be about 200 sq ft smaller,
> with a kitchenette minus cooking facilities (three cafeteria meals a day
> for her now), but otherwise something very similar to what she'd had all
> along.  And of course all the "wellness care" that comes with the new
> environment.  She's apparently still able to walk without assistance, but
> apparently splits the difference between that and using her walker.
>
> Whew.
> _________________________________________
> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
> - The Rev Mr John Donne
> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>