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

[Jay Weigel]

Good thinking, Sally! Mike, can such be accomplished, or will you have to
light a fire under your brother in order to get anything of the sort done?

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Sal <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> Been meaning to say...thinking of you Mike and praying for a smooth
> transition.
>
> Apparently, it's Occupational Therapy month! I now work in an
> interdisciplinary team with OTs and really appreciate their amazing skills
> especially with kids and frail elders.
>
> To add my cents worth from this experience, an OT assessment is invaluable
> especially wrt falling. The patients do fall in frail care/assisted living
> and if someone has a history of falls, it's useful to know why they lose
> balance. It could be due to one or more of several possibilities.
>
> Sally D
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 11 Oct 2014, at 4:12, "M J [Mike] Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> >>>> It should be good from the point that she will see more people, too.
> That's
> > always a plus.<<<
> >
> > With the proviso that what I'm about to relate was last month, before
> the current news, I will say that exec dir told me that last month during
> the September Birthdays special party/meal (she's 86 now) she was
> especially chatty and engaging, much more than he'd ever seen her be (and
> he's had meals with her every now and then over time to keep at least a
> little tabs on such things).
> >
> > Indeed, more people will be good.  And if anything, I'm seeing the need
> for a quick visit finally one of these days.  Hey, Christmas is right
> around the corner, and the County shuts down between Xmas and New Year's
> ("Eco Recess"; what I call "Carbon Holiday"), so that would be perfect.
> > _________________________________________
> > "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
> > distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
> > - The Rev Mr John Donne
> > (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>