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

[Jay Weigel]

It should be good from the point that she will see more people, too. That's
always a plus.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> >
>