Tuesday, March 18, 2008

At Mabie Northside

Hi, all,
Terrie's been moved over the weekend to Mabie Northside, the skilled nursing facility across the street from Hazel Hawkins Hospital. As she had been given no morphine, when I saw her yesterday she was alert and very bored. She'd love to have you visit! Someone (James?) thoughtfully brought her a large word finder puzzle book -- these are easier to do than crossword puzzles, but will help keep the brain active. She has a deck of playing cards to play Solitaire, but she says she can't do that anymore. I think she can't manage the cards, as they're slippery.

While we were there the staff tried to insert a shunt into her arm so that she could receive a morphine drip intravenously, one that she could control herself. When the hospital staff administered the morphine, Terrie would fade in and out while we were talking with her; but if she wasn't receiving the morphine drip she was lucid and alert.

God bless you all!


Under HIs mercy,
--Marty



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