[Magdalen] Susan Hagen

[Grace Cangialosi]

It’s all covered, Jay. She has an excellent cat sitter. Has a friend bringing her what she needs—standing by to bring clothes when she’s sprung.

> On Sep 3, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well that is a totally sucky situation! Who is looking after her cats? Can
> they bring her laptop and/or phone to her? Can you (or I) go and retrieve
> them and get them to her?
> 
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:32 AM Marilyn Cepeda <mcepeda514 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Please send her my good wishes!
>> 
>> Marilyn
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 7:28 AM Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the update, Grace.  Prayers for full and quickest possible
>>> recovery for Susan.
>>> 
>>> Ginga
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 10:20 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Susan asked me to post this to let you know what’s going on with her.
>>>> She fell at work about two weeks ago and broke her tibia and the tibia
>>>> platform, which has undermined her knee replacement. She has been here
>> at
>>>> UVa Hospital for 12 days at this point because they haven’t been able
>> to
>>>> get the insurance worked out so she can go to rehab.
>>>> I was away for a few days last week and assumed she’d been discharged,
>>> but
>>>> then I couldn’t find out where she was, and she wasn’t responding to
>>> phone
>>>> calls, FB or emails.
>>>> Finally this morning I just decided to call UVa and ask to be connected
>>> to
>>>> her room, fully expecting to be told that she had been discharged. But
>>>> there she was!
>>>> So I saw her this afternoon. She’s in remarkably good spirits, says
>>>> they’ve been treating her like a queen, but she misses her cats! She is
>>>> without cell phone or laptop, which is why she hasn’t been able to
>>> respond
>>>> to anything.
>>>> She expects to be sent to a rehab facility in the next couple of days
>> and
>>>> is hoping it will be near her home.
>>>> She is on short-term disability, and it’s going to be a long haul. It
>>> will
>>>> probably be about 6 weeks before her leg is strong enough to bear full
>>>> weight, and then she’ll have to have surgery to replace the bottom part
>>> of
>>>> the knee replacement.
>>>> Once she has been reunited with her laptop, she’ll be able to fill you
>> in
>>>> more fully, but she wanted me to at least touch base with you on her
>>> behalf.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> --
>> Marilyn (Owens, Palmero) Cepeda
>>