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Home Healthcare Nurse Kristin visits Mama and makes us all have renewed faith in the medical system with her brilliance and compassion.
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On a morning that started at zero degrees, Mama sits in her chair in her bed-sitting room after her breakfast and meds, about to transition to her bathroom for a "shower" while showing signs of a cold.
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Mama rests momentarily in the back hall midway in her twenty laps of the hallway.
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The contents of the "belly-drawer" in Daddy's old desk in the library. Note: firecrackers, a cow's tooth, 22 cal rifle shells, a prayer book, pocket knives and some precious tiny photos.
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view of Mama's house from the driver's seat of my car as I start to drive to McDonald's for coffee on a near zero morning that has seen us without electricity since the wee hours of the night.
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I adopt the role off ascetic Artic explorer as I start my car in +2 degree weather heading for McDonald's for hot coffee and breakfast for our frigid crew huddled in the dark of mama's room waiting for electricity.
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Breakfast in bed on a bitterly cold Sunday morning after a very rough night involving the loss of electricity (thus the candles and drawn drapes against the cold) and a fall trying to use the potty chair right beside her bed in the dark.
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On a desperately cold Sunday morning in early January, after a very rough night (the electricity went off during the night, the house lost heat and Mama fell in the dark tying get onto the potty chair right beside her bed, bruising and bumping herself an
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Sunday morning at Mama's house in Princeton
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Sunday morning at Mama's house in Princeton
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Mama reads the book "Alive" that nephew James gave her for Christmas
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Sunday morning at Mama's house in Princeton
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Sunday morning at Mama's house in Princeton
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Sunday morning at Mama's house in Princeton
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The "Ice Cream Girls" fresh from practicing stair-climbing, show their esprit de corps before launching into doing laps in the downstairs hall.
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very early morning view from the throne-room - the bathroom between Mary's and Toddy's old second-story bedrooms in Princeton.
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Henry left work to join us at the hospital as Mama checks in for two days of testing.
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Raz (Dr. Razelle Reyes - "hospitalist" and Mama's newest neighbor) stops by our table in the cafeteria of Princeton Community Hospital.
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back on hospital food - showing the bruise on her chin from the fall in the dark a day before
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Mama's A-Team
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the inimitable Marcie Howard, Mama's wonderful new daytime caregiver. Marcie is retired from a career at Princeton Community Hospital and is a hugely talented, resourceful and entertaining lady with a back story worthy of a book.
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Mama being wheeled away for a CT Scan
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Marcie Howard, Dr. Todd Smith, Dr. Razelle Reyes and Donna Shay.
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A great team: Marcie Howard, Mama's new daytime caregiver; the fantastic Dr. Todd Smith, Mama's primary doctor; Dr. Razelle Reyes, our new friend & neighbor, and; Donna Shay, who administers barium testing etc.
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Mama coming back to her room from a C.T. Scan
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Dr. Razelle Reyes - Mama's newest nextdoor neighbor on Sandrine Pointe and a "hospitalist" at Princeton Community Hospital
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Mama's meds and discharge summaries and exercise & pill record plus an empty Depends package litter the chest on the back hall
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Friday morning at Mama's house in Princeton
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The bed Mama's daddy bought her on Macy's in New York City in the early 1940s.
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My childhood bedroom in Princeton.
