Marie Turrish Hazen

90 Day Review Completed and Visit

Well the review went OK I guess. I love the line, "We are just Assisted Living." Translation.....any special individualized attention will cost you. Hopefully we didn't do or say anything that caused an unwitting increase in services.
Visited with Mom afterwards. Took her some groceries purchased from the Safeway Store from Hell. I wish I had looked at her supplies on hand before the spree because she is definitely in need of some basic supplies. Her milk was dated October 20, 2008 and I spent quite some time forcing the gelatinous mass down the drain. I think quarts instead of 1/2 gallons is a better idea and anyone who goes in should give it a sniff. My hope is that we can use the blog to keep everyone informed of what she needs and what has been purchased. Duplications are not OK either. OK here is the rest of the list...

• Puffed Wheat, Corn Flakes, (she doesn't have any cereal and it is a staple for her). If you have any bowls around that would be a great donation. She's eating her cereal out of a crystal candy bowl.
• Bird Seed (she loves to sit at the window and watch the birds).
• Butter (she is eating dry raisin toast that very possibly is older than the milk was)
• Fresh Bread..thus the previous comment

Also if you go in please check the tea kettle to make sure the circuit is active. If there is no light on the microwave LED the circuit has been tripped. I've noticed that someone is attempting to teach her to use the microwave. There are instructions that say "100" push start......yeah...good luck with that.
Any indication we make to Hearthstone indicating that she is unable to utilize these devices could cause them to remove them from her room. "They are just Assisted Living"
I have a tape recorder now and I taped our 50 minute conversation. Stay tuned to the BLOG for tidbits as soon as I get the time to put creative cuts in place.

OK...here's the bottom line folks. It is our responsibility to maintain the food supplies in her apartment if we expect her to continue to get down the Hearthstone hallways. Malnutrition should not be her demise, but it just may well be if we don't check in on her. Hearthstone will offer food to her, but it is somewhat at their convenience and their timetable. Food she can nibble on in the middle of the night that has nutritional value is a good concept. Nothing that requires a microwave. She does not know how to use it! She might nibble on cold chicken and toast. Of course she loves candy and cookies, but perhaps if there are other options as well she might pick them.

OK..enough for now. Go visit. She gets really funny with the stories. She wants to sit on your right on the couch because she can hear you the best there. Let me know when supplies are purchased...otherwise I'll do it when I go in next time....guilt card here folks...I live almost an hour away!

When 10 years old...her Grandmother...

*Mom * Dad * Michael *

Birthday Plan

Hmm.. 90th birthday coming up. I asked her where she wanted to celebrate and she said she would like it in someone's house. Then she asked how many people would be there and I told her it could be around 26 to 30 people. "Oh my" she said.

Friends with Cool Houses

One of Mom's best friends was Sally Slocum. Her parents were Virgie and Sam Slocum. He was a famous surgeon at St Vincent Hospital. They lived in a house on Summit Ave on Westover. Mom lived there as much as her own house. She and Sally were always together. Sally's house had an attic with rows and rows of long curtains. It was a driving range. Folks would go up there and hit line drives into the curtains. Dr Slocum was an avid golfer who frequented Waverly Country Club.

2111 SW 21st Ave...Now known as Clinton St

Home of Raymond and Helen Wilcox and their three children.

Virginia, William, and Lida

The Rosenfelds lived next door. Mom and Johnny Rosenfeld would get in trouble together all the time. To punish Mom they would send her to bed since she was too frail to be spanked. Johnny would be sent to the corner of the dining room to spend his disciplinary time. Bill helped them rig up a pulley system between the two houses and Mom and Johnny would pass notes on the pulley and string while they were doing their time.

Raymond Wilcox was a well-know prominent business man. Helen always called him Raymond or Dad, never Ray. He was the head of the Chamber of Commerce as well as being very active in several of the Portland clubs. Two that were mentioned were The University Club, and the Waverly Club. Raymond was quite a golfer. Mom never liked it but she did take lessons from her brother Bill. He became the resident Pro golfer in Gearhart. Mom thinks having him for a golf teacher didn't work so well, because he wasn't quite as patient with her as he was with his other "customers."

The family had a dog named Barney. He was the meanest dog in the neighborhood and was always biting people.