The telephone rang at home Saturday morning. It was my sister, Bonnie. “Something’s happening.” When Bonnie’s phone call came, I was still on my last cup of morning coffee. I had posted more scans of my dad’s old pictures earlier in the morning, including some of him in Aloha Week events that took place 60 [...]
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It’s been over a month since my dad’s brush with pneumonia. We were all lucky, I suppose. He survived, despite the bad reaction to antibiotics, and has been been on a long, slow recovery trajectory. For several weeks, he was just exhausted. Slept a lot. I admit to visiting less. In the past couple of [...]
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There’s been a bit of a scare as we transferred from the dementia train to the medical express. It started with a cough. It was the middle of last week, and when I pulled into the parking lot of the nursing home for an afternoon visit with my father, I spotted my sister in her [...]
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This is getting to be a routine for me, a Saturday visit to see my dad, arriving at the Oahu Care Facility late in the morning, probably just after 11 a.m. Meda dropped me off and drove down to check out the Goodwill thrift store, just a few blocks farther along Beretania. I waiting for [...]
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July 5th was a holiday, and we drove into Honolulu so that I could drop in for another late morning visit with my dad. I usually get over to his nursing home in the late afternoon. He’s almost always in bed, and if awake he’ll ask me what time of day it is and, invariably, [...]
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I finally got to connect with my father yesterday, a little more than three weeks after my last visit. First there was our absence, a brief trip to the east coast, then the nursing home implemented a quarantine on his floor because of an outbreak of an intestinal flu that lasted over a week, and [...]
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My phone rang mid-day on Friday. It was one of the staff at the nursing home where my dad’s been for the past year and a half. She wanted to let us know that visiting won’t be allowed for at least a few days as they move to contain an outbreak of a stomach/intestinal bug [...]
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[Note: click on any photo to see a full-size version.] Meda dropped me off to visit with my father late yesterday afternoon. She continues along Beretania Street and makes a sweep through the Goodwill Store while I head up the stairs to the third floor of the Oahu Care Facility, sign in the visitor log, [...]
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