[Oe List ...] Barbara Alerding and Anita Gibson from JohnGibson

[Joan]

Sending blessings and praying for patience and healing for these wonderful colleagues.  Joan Knutson





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From: George Packard <george.packard1 at rcn.com>
To: 'Colleague Dialogue' <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>; 'Order Ecumenical Community' <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Tue, Jul 5, 2011 7:30 pm
Subject: [Oe List ...] Barbara Alerding and Anita Gibson from JohnGibson


Colleagues,
You may have seen the note from Paula Philbrook on Barbara Alerding address. If not here it is again from John Gibson. He also included the address of Anita Gibson and and update on her. See below. Also I noted that bill responded to the Pareks Greeting with the word that the decision has been made to proceed with bypass surgery on him perhaps even now. So bill must have gotten a glimpse of this list serve if only for a moment.
George


From: K. Elise Packard [mailto:kelisepackard at rcn.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 7:35 PM
To: george.packard1 at rcn.com
Subject: Please post on the Dialogue




Hi George,
This is from John Gibson about contact info for Barbara Alerding, and, also very important, information about Anita Gibson and her contact information.
Both of them, in addition to Bill, would love to receive cards to lift their spirits.
Please post on the Dialogues,
Elise
 
 
Barbara Alerding's address is:
Spring Mill Meadow
2140 West 86th Street  Rm. 112
Indianapolis, IN 46260
Phone: 317-872-7211
 
Anita Gibson's mailing address is:
5409 Love Lane
Indianapolis, IN 46268
 
Here is an update on Anita I recently sent around to kin and friends:
 
We took Anita to the Health Care Center (nursing home) here in the Robin Run Village on May 19.  She was less and less able to stand on her own which made transfer to her wheel chair and to the bathroom precarious.  Also she was getting dehydrated and had a bladder infection.  We thought a few days of rehab and some professional nursing attention would likely result in a return to our Garden Home.  Not so.  It became increasingly clear that she needs more help now than we can provide at home.  So, we are applying for Medicaid in anticipation of a permanent stay in the nursing facility which, as you may know, is very costly ($245 a day) when Medicare runs out (after the first 100 days).  In the meantime she continues to get physical therapy every day to keep her body as strong and flexible as possible.  We (Ruth or I) assist her in eating. Ruth writes birthday and thank notes for her.  Anita and I have devotions together each morning and sometime during the day we do a crossword puzzle together, laugh over old family photos, and when her energy allows we take a short spin in her wheel chair to “smell the roses” and revel in the beauty of nature all around us here at Robin Run.  She has visitors or cards every day; and always some beauteous flowers to adorn her room.  She is well cared for by the staff of the Health Care Center.  Interestingly she is the only “vegetarian” on the premise so we are still educating the food service but they are slowly catching on.  Everyone on staff, visitors, as well as Ruth and I admire her buoyant spirit in the face of so daunting a prognosis. (For those who may not know, Anita was diagnosed as having Cerebellar Atrophy in 2009.  CA is a somewhat rare progressive degenerative disease of that part of the brain that determines balance and coordination.  Her cognitive skills are not effected but walking, hand movements and speaking are effected).
 
John
 
 
 
K. Elise Packard, Ph.D.
Learning Consultant
Bridging Futures LLC
www.bridgingfuturesllc.com
 


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