Monday, May 12, 2008

Bloggers, mobilize!

Now that my mom is in her own room, she is allowed to receive flowers, mylar balloons, and phone calls.  Sooo...we're hoping to use the blog to sign people up for phone calls so they are a little spread out.  If you are willing, please leave a comment to let us know what day of the week you can call.  We're going to try to have about 3 phone calls per day, so if you already see 3 people who volunteered to call on a certain day, please pick a different one.  Her phone number is 208-529-7332.  (As a reminder, she tires easily and sometimes doesn't make perfect sense when she is tired.)

Today my dad really impressed the whole hospital when he went to Home Depot, Staples and Barnes and Noble and came back with an awesome contraption to hold my mom's crossword puzzles where she can see them.  It's made of two different types of vices, a cookbook holder, and a clipboard, and it's attached now to her bedside tray.  I'll try to take a picture tomorrow.  It was quite a feat for someone who had no tools!

Amy

7 comments:

Donna said...

Hi, this this is Donna. I would love to call your mom tomorrow afternoon around 2:00 p.m.pst I am not sure how you are going to manage the scheduling, but if this time is not good for her just let me know what would be better. I will jump through any hoop to be able to speak with her. You are all doing such wonderful job and you know best. Brian, I am not surprised that you are inventing devices to make life easier for Janet!!!
Give her my love and I hope to talk to her soon. Donna

Anonymous said...

Aha! Not being able to sleep has paid off for once. I can/would love to call Janet tommorrow, Tuesday. I am planning on being home in the morning so I will make the call in the later morning to avoid nurses, rounds etc. Good job, Brian on the invention--more points in heaven for you.
Love and talk (giggle, giggle) soon!
Vickie

Anonymous said...

Hi, this is Carolyn. Liz and I will be traveling back to the mainland on Thursday, so I think the best shot I'd have is on Friday, May 16 at 11 a.m. Idaho Falls time, which (I just checked) is 10 a.m. PDT. I will put that on my calendar, but please feel free to bump me to another day or ask me to call later that day. I won't be really in gear with coaching clients till the following week, but the scheduling plan makes it really easy for me to save her a time as often as she'd like. What a great idea! And Brian, Liz and I salute your creative use of non-tools -- I would expect no less of you! Take care, everybody. Love,
Carolyn

Anonymous said...

Oops, I realized you may not have an easy way to contact me, so perhaps it'd be good if the mobilized bloggers also put all their contact info into their message volunteering for a time. So:

Carolyn Foster
Friday, May 16, 11 a.m. Mtn Time
e-mail: cjf@creativechoices.net
(510) 769-8690 (work/home)
(510) 484-3078 (cell)

There you go.
C.

Anonymous said...

Hi - I will be away for the next week, so I will check in to do a call after the 18th. Love to all, Judy R.

Anonymous said...

Put us down for Wednesday afternoon. Bob and Sue

Anonymous said...

I will call Wednesday about 7 pm eastern time. I believe you are 3 hours earlier in Idaho Falls, so that would be about 4 pm your time. I hope I have that correct. At any rate, I'll know what time it is at MY house! Let me know via email if that time doesn't work for Janet's schedule. I expect she'll be starting PT soon.
Sukey