Tuesday 01/23/2024
Took care of some stuff in the morning. Went to the IL nurses office and reviewed what they had in my folder. Replaced the Advanced Directive form, verified the other stuff. Wrote an email to the Prime FIduciary guy (and am surprised at no reply by day’s end). I have a number of questions, mainly because I do not see in my files, where I modified the Trust to make them first successor trustee. Which is kind of the point of having them.
Last night I patched together a little essay for the writers group which started at 10:45 as usual. The theme was something like “what you keep and what you lose” which caused my mind to flash back to day 1 of this blog, when I de-invalidized the house, getting rid of all the evidence of disease and illness. (The “it started here” link goes there.) I padded that out and generalized it a little bit. Then I worried about sharing it; and then I realized how silly that was. I am quite sure (and they confirmed this after) that everybody in the group has been through some variation of bereavement. I knew a couple of the writers had lost children; most had lost spouses. So it was well received.
At 3:30 I went down to set up the auditorium for an easy event: running Patty’s son’s documentary Piano Girl (here’s the link if you want to watch it). There was an employee meeting in progress when I got there, and I eavesdropped. Rhonda was giving staff the good news that because of new minimum wage laws, and other reasons like the competition for staff in this sector, wages would be going up. She also mentioned that they would be seeking ways to increase revenue, including charging for things that had previously been free. Not sure what that means. I guess I’ll hear about that at the annual Resident-Trustee meeting Thursday afternoon. Rumor has it we will hear monthly fees will be up 6%.
Anyway by 4:05 the auditorium was almost full. I was surprised at the turnout, although everybody knows and likes Patty and her son Jeff. The hour-long show went smoothly — you might say of course, it was a simple job of driving the projector from my laptop — but you just never know. Glitches happen. The audience was very quiet and attentive and lots of applause after, so good for Patty.
Kay had arranged a dinnertable for 6 for Patty and some others including me, so that was nice.
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