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born Feb 11, 1945 · 81 on Oct 5, 2026
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Nov 10
Walt Pruitt
Nov 10
Dad died last night at eight minutes till ten. It was my night. Mom was asleep…
…in the bedroom and I was in the recliner beside him. His breathing had been changing all day, long gaps. I counted one gap at forty seconds and then there wasn't another breath.
I sat there a minute. Then I woke Mom. Then I called hospice, and Tanya came at eleven and did what they do, and the funeral home came at o…
Nov 10
Fairbanks-Teague Funeral Home, Cleveland. Alan Teague 423-555-0157
visitation Sat 11/12 5-8. service Sun 2:00 New Harmony. burial after
Chestuee Hills Memorial Park, Garden of Peace, lot 114. Dad space 3, Mom's is 4. bought 1996
total 11,870 - casket 3,200, vault 1,450, services 4,900, opening/closing 1,300, flowers & the rest
Lanternfield pays, Teague will wait
gave Teague the DD-21…
Nov 10
Walter Eugene Pruitt, 81, of Cleveland, died Wednesday, November 9, 2022, at hi…
…s home with his family beside him.
Born March 22, 1941 in Bradley County to the late Ernest and Vida Pruitt. U.S. Army, 1960-1963, stationed in Germany. He worked 38 years at the range plant and retired in 2003. Member of New Harmony Baptist Church, where he kept the grounds.
Survived by his wife of 58 years, Lorrain…
Nov 11
what Dad said, June, on the carport
will is at Castellaw's. me executor
all to Mom. watch to me, Browning to Russ
sell the truck
New Harmony, Holloway. "not too long"
Nov 13
Social Security · Mom
Nov 14
The funeral was yesterday. The church was full, which would have embarrassed hi…
…m. Pastor Holloway kept it to thirty-five minutes. The Army sent two young soldiers and one of them handed Mom the flag and said the words and she said "thank you, honey."
Russ and I carried him with four others. He weighed nothing.
All day people called me Walter. I've been Walt since I was six so they could tell…
Nov 15
thank yous - Mom wants them out before Thanksgiving
Dot Rainey - casserole, sat w/ Mom both nights
Mrs Jenkins - pound cake, ham
Kirklands - mowed & raked
Sunday school class - the meal
Tannehill's - peace lily
pallbearers - Mike, Greg, Bobby K, Cody, Harold's boy, Luis
Tanya
Tolbert's office - card
Nov 21
Dad - to do (Castellaw's list + mine)
[x] death certs, ordered 10
[x] Social Security - Teague reported it. Mom appt 12/6
[x] pension - Calloway Range, survivor form
[x] Lanternfield life claim LF-7730195
[ ] probate - hearing 12/19
[ ] his savings acct needs the letters
[ ] truck title
[ ] Buick title
[ ] cancel his cell, his supplement, the fishing maga…
Nov 21
LF-7730195
Nov 24
Mom's iPad
Nov 24
Birth Certificate · Mom
Nov 25
Mom's house (Larkmoor Lane)
Nov 25
Mom's iPad
Nov 27
Larkmoor
furnace filter 20x25x1, hall return, every 2 mo
water shutoff at the meter by the street, key hangs in the shop. inside one - crawlspace hatch, hall closet floor
breakers - carport storage room. Dad's pencil labels, half wrong. range = top right double
gas shutoff at the meter, wrench wired to the pipe
trash Monday
Nov 27
Fireproof box, Mom's hall closet
Right, left, right. Top shelf behind the quilts.
Nov 27
Padlock on Dad's shop
Nov 29
blue folder = Dad. green = Mom
Dec 3
Medicare Part A and Part B
Part A and Part B both effective 02-01-2010. In her wallet.
Dec 3
Medicare Supplement Plan G
Effective 03-01-2010.
Dec 3
Medicare Part D drug plan
ENDED 12/31/2025.
Dec 3
DP-H-0381-774526
Dec 3
DP-A-0381-520917
Dec 3
LTC-04-2291847
Dec 3
LF-7730196
Dec 6
SS office w/ Mom. she gets Dad's check now instead of hers, not both. starts w/…
…December. $255 one time
Dec 6
Social Security account (Mom)
Codes go to my cell.
Dec 6
Ocoee River, Autumn
Over the couch. Signed R. Clabough lower right.
Dec 10
Started 7/19/2022 in place of warfarin. · Mom
Started 7/19/2022 in place of warfarin.
Dec 10
Hold it and call if her pulse is under 55. · Mom
Hold it and call if her pulse is under 55.
Dec 10
Prescription · Mom
Dec 10
STOPPED 1/18/2025. Ankles. · Mom
STOPPED 1/18/2025. Ankles.
Dec 10
Was 1000 twice a day until 8/22/2023 (Dr. Tsai). · Mom
Was 1000 twice a day until 8/22/2023 (Dr. Tsai).
Dec 10
STOPPED 8/21/2024. Sugar of 41. · Mom
STOPPED 8/21/2024. Sugar of 41.
Dec 10
Prescription · Mom
Dec 10
Prescription · Mom
Dec 10
STOPPED 6/12/2025, Dr. Mehta. · Mom
STOPPED 6/12/2025, Dr. Mehta.
Dec 10
STOPPED 4/9/2024, famotidine instead. · Mom
STOPPED 4/9/2024, famotidine instead.
Dec 10
Fridge door, green cap. · Mom
Fridge door, green cap.
Dec 10
STOPPED June 2023. Prolia instead. · Mom
STOPPED June 2023. Prolia instead.
Dec 10
NO ibuprofen, Aleve or aspirin. · Mom
NO ibuprofen, Aleve or aspirin.
Dec 10
Clementine
Dec 11
Dad was in the shop sorting screws into the coffee cans. I asked him where the…
…10-32s were and he pointed without looking up. He was the weight he used to be. I knew in the dream he was dead and didn't want to say so in case he hadn't been told. I picked up a can and it was full of the little pink pills, Mom's.
Dec 13
PRUITT, LORRAINE MAE · Mom
Dec 23
Dad's wedding band
Fireproof box. Mom wants Russ to have it.
Dec 25
Christmas at Mom's. Her TV died on the 22nd, so that's what she got, two days l…
…ate. Cam made the breakfast casserole. Mom set four places and then stood there, and Cam took the fourth plate and put it back in the cabinet without a word.
Russ called at two. Ten minutes.
Russ had a case made for the flag and mailed it. Walnut, with Dad's name on a brass plate. She held it a long time. Then she…
Dec 26
Mom's Buick
Dec 28
Mom's TV (den)
Dec 29
LG 50 in TV for Mom
2023
Jan 2
Passport · Mom
Jan 15
Three trips to Cleveland a week now. Tuesday and Thursday after work and all da…
…y Sunday. Sixty-two miles round trip. Mom says she's fine and the refrigerator says otherwise: a quart of buttermilk, half a pound cake somebody brought in November, and Dad's hot sauce.
She's sleeping in her chair, not the bed. She says the bed is too big.
Dennis asked on Friday how I'm holding up and I said fine.
Jan 20
Mom
Jan 20
Calloway pension - survivor letter
Feb 1
Roz's first morning at Mom's
Feb 2
MOM ALLERGIES
PENICILLIN - hives. as a girl and again about 1985
SULFA (Bactrim) - rash, lips swelled, 2017
not allergies but tell them:
codeine / oxycodone - throws up
lisinopril - cough
tape tears her skin, ask for paper tape
no latex. no foods.
Feb 2
Mom surgeries (Betty had the old ones)
tonsils - child
hysterectomy 1987
gallbladder 1996
right knee replaced 10/16/2018 Voss
cataracts - R 2/18/2020, L 3/10/2020 Purcell
skin cancer off her nose 9/14/2021
left hip 2/3/2023 Voss
no pacemaker, no stents, never smoked
Feb 3
LEFT HIP REPLACEMENT (partial). Dr. Voss, Whitlow Memorial. Admitted 2/2, surge…
…ry 2/3, out 2/7 to Linden Court.
Feb 3
Mom fell in the kitchen night before last and broke her hip. She was on the flo…
…or I don't know how long. She pulled the wall phone down by the cord and called 911 and then called me at 2:40 and said, "I've done something silly."
Surgery was this afternoon. Dr. Voss says it went fine. She's 77 with a bad heart and diabetes and it went fine.
I sat in the same waiting room where I sat for her kn…
Feb 4
Whitlow 318. partial hip, left, 70 min
PT tomorrow. Eliquis restarts tomorrow night
confused last night, pulled at her IV, asked for Dad
rehab 3 wks or so, Linden Court has a bed Tues. Medicare 20 days full
bring: glasses, teeth cup, the blue robe
Feb 5
RIGHT TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT. Dr. Voss, Whitlow Memorial. In 10/16, home 10/19.
Feb 5
CATARACT SURGERY, RIGHT EYE. Dr. Purcell. Lens implant.
Feb 5
CATARACT SURGERY, LEFT EYE.
Feb 5
Basal cell skin cancer off the left side of her nose, dermatologist's office. M…
…argins clear.
Feb 5
HOSPITAL, Whitlow Memorial, 3/9 to 3/11/2022. Atrial fibrillation, pulse 150 in…
…the ER. Metoprolol and a blood thinner from here on. Dr. Rahimi.
Feb 5
COVID-19 (Moderna) dose 1
Feb 5
COVID-19 (Moderna) dose 2
Feb 5
STOPPED March 2019. Cough. Don't let anybody put her back on it. · Mom
STOPPED March 2019. Cough. Don't let anybody put her back on it.
Feb 5
FALL. Up around 2 am, went down in the kitchen. No pendant then. Ambulance to W…
…hitlow. Left hip broken.
Feb 8
Medical
Feb 8
MyWhitlow patient portal (Mom)
I'm set up as proxy.
Feb 8
Whitlow discharge Feb 2023 hip
Feb 8
After the hip, 14 days. · Mom
After the hip, 14 days.
Feb 9
Castellaw & Byrd, Mom signs the powers of attorney
Feb 11
Mom's keys
- Mrs Jenkins (2221) has one
- spare on a nail inside Dad's shop, left of the door, behind the pegboard
- mine: the brass one w/ the red nail polish
- lockbox going on the carport post
back deadbolt sticks, lift the knob
Feb 12
Linden Court. It's clean and the therapy people are good. The hall smells like…
…every one of these places smells. Her roommate has the TV on a game show channel at a volume you could hear from the lot.
Mom walked twelve feet on the walker today. She's clearer than she was in the hospital but she asked me twice when Walter was coming to get her. The second time I said, "I'm here, Mom," and she l…
Feb 19
before Mom comes home 3/2
[x] grab bars - 24 at the toilet, 24 + 16 at the tub
[x] shower chair, raised seat
[ ] throw rugs
[x] night lights hall bath kitchen
[ ] bed - so she gets out on the right side
[x] lift chair
[ ] pendant - order
[ ] rail at the carport step, 7 in rise
[ ] somebody mornings. call agencies Mon
Feb 22
Cleveland Utilities account (Mom's house)
Account is still in Dad's name.
Mar 4
Linden Court started it for sleep. · Mom
Linden Court started it for sleep.
Mar 4
Key lockbox, Mom's carport
Carport post by the kitchen door. Roz, Pam, HearthGuard have it.
Mar 5
Home from Linden Court after 23 days. Walker. They started trazodone for sleep.…
…Home PT twice a week through April.
Mar 6
For my back. Keep it at my house, not in Mom's cabinet. · Walt Pruitt
For my back. Keep it at my house, not in Mom's cabinet.
Mar 6
HearthGuard account
Verbal password is "bluebird". Call list - me, Mrs. Jenkins, Russ.
Mar 6
HearthGuard medical alert (Mom) · $34.95
HearthGuard medical alert (Mom)
Mar 8
Medical alert pendant and base
Base is on the kitchen counter by the phone. $34.95 a month.
Mar 9
HearthGuard activation, pendant and base
Mar 10
Roz does: breakfast, AM pills from the box, bath M & F, laundry, lunch, supper…
…plated
doesn't: shots, filling the box (agency rule), driving Mom in her own car - she uses the Buick
she writes in the spiral notebook on the table
Mar 14
Well. Now you're the boss of me.
Mar 14
Castellaw 1:30. Mom signed both - durable POA and the health care one. me, then…
…Russ
originals stay in their vault. 3 certified copies of each
$650 w/ the will update
take one to: Pinnock Valley, Tolbert, Whitlow, Wanda
Mar 14
Mom's will - original at Castellaw's. I don't have one
Mar 14
Mom POA durable signed 3-14-23
Mar 14
Mom health care agent form 3-14-23
Mar 14
For the hospital: I am Mom's HEALTH CARE AGENT. "Appointment of Health Care Age…
…nt" + advance care plan, signed 3/14/2023, notarized. Russ is the alternate.
what she said, near as I can get it:
- no machines if she isn't coming back
- no feeding tube
- yes antibiotics, fluids, oxygen, comfort
- CPR: "if it's quick, yes. if I'm already gone, let me go." Evelyn wrote yes for now, ask the doctor ag…
Mar 15
Signed the powers of attorney yesterday. The lawyer took Mom in her office alon…
…e first and shut the door, and I sat in the waiting room like a suspect. That's the right way to do it.
Mom signed with her good pen. Her hand shakes some now but it's still the signature off every permission slip I ever carried to school.
So now I can sign her name with mine after it.
My back went out moving her…
Apr 5
Pinnock Valley took the POA. 50 min and a manager. I sign "Lorraine M. Pruitt b…
…y Walter E. Pruitt Jr., POA". new checks ordered
Apr 5
Pinnock Valley Bank online (Mom)
Security question is her mother's maiden name, Tallent.
Apr 5
Debit · Mom
Apr 5
Credit · Mom
Apr 5
ACCOUNT NUMBERS
Mom - Pinnock Valley Bank, routing 064117823
checking 30418-7726 (SS and pension in, bills out)
savings 30418-9941
CD $40,000, 4.10%, matures 3/15/2027
CD $20,000, 3.85%, matures 9/15/2027
IRA (was Dad's) about $38k - has to take some out every December
Me - Tanager FCU, routing 264181570
checking 00714522…
Apr 5
Cleveland Utilities, electric and water (Mom's house) · $164.88
Autopay from her checking. · Cleveland Utilities, electric and water (Mom's house)
Apr 5
Natural gas (Mom's house) · $27.4
Natural gas (Mom's house)
Apr 5
Landline and cable TV (Mom's house) · $139.77
Landline and cable TV (Mom's house)
Apr 5
Mom's cell phone · $25.0
Mom's cell phone
Apr 5
Evermont Plan G premium (Mom) · $214.5
Drafts on the 5th. Was $198.75 before March. · Evermont Plan G premium (Mom)
Apr 5
Barger Pest Control, quarterly (Mom's house) · $95.0
Barger Pest Control, quarterly (Mom's house)
Apr 5
Cleveland Daily Banner (Mom) · $16.5
Cleveland Daily Banner (Mom)
Apr 8
Arnie tore out Mom's tub this week. Pink tile, 1964. She stood in the hall with…
…her walker and watched it go out the door in buckets. I asked if she was all right and she said she'd hated that tile for forty-nine years and Walter wouldn't change it.
Easter tomorrow. I'll take her to church. First time back since the hip.
I went out to the shop to find a level and stood there. It still smells l…
Apr 18
stone set. gray granite, companion
PRUITT
WALTER EUGENE / MAR 22 1941 - NOV 9 2022 / US ARMY
LORRAINE MAE / FEB 11 1945 -
MARRIED JUNE 20 1964
dogwood in the corner. 3,480
Apr 21
Walk-in shower, Mom's bathroom
Apr 23
Tub to walk-in shower, Mom's bathroom
Arnie Welch. From Mom's savings. · Tub to walk-in shower, Mom's bathroom
May 6
Dad's retirement watch
Bulova. W.E.P. 38 YEARS 1965-2003 on the back. Still in his dresser.
May 9
Tolbert - down 11 lb since Nov. started sertraline
will eat: tomato soup, pimento cheese, peaches, eggs, the church chicken salad, vanilla wafers
Roz: small plate, don't ask, set it down
May 9
Prescription · Mom
May 11
Dr. Tolbert. Not eating, not sleeping. Down 11 lb since November. Depression. S…
…ertraline 25. Trazodone stopped.
May 21
Dr. Tolbert says Mom is depressed. I knew she was sad. I didn't know there was…
…a line between the two that you could be on the wrong side of.
She's lost eleven pounds. She cries around four in the afternoon, which Roz says is when he used to come in from the shop.
He put her on a pill for it. She asked me if that meant she was crazy. I said no, it means you were married fifty-eight years. She…
Jun 14
Pneumonia (Prevnar 20)
Jun 20
Water heater, 50 gal gas, Mom's house
Jun 21
Water heater, 50 gal gas, installed
Jun 25
Father's Day was last Sunday. Cam gave me a card and a tackle box and made panc…
…akes. I went up to Mom's in the afternoon like any Sunday and neither of us said what day it was. We snapped beans on the carport.
Jun 30
The Hollis homeplace
Mom's uncle drew the house in Polk County where she was born.
Jul 11
ask Evelyn - Mom's IRA beneficiary form?
Aug 22
Dr. Tsai, first visit. eGFR 41, creatinine 1.3. Stage 3b. Metformin cut to 500…
…twice a day. No NSAIDs.
Aug 22
Dr Tsai - kidneys at 41% (eGFR), stage 3b
metformin cut in half, 500 AM 500 supper
NO Advil Aleve Motrin Goody's. Tylenol only
tell them before any scan w/ dye
water but not too much (heart). nobody has a number
back in 4 mo, labs the week before
Aug 22
Estate closed. order came from Evelyn. estate acct closed, $4,212.60 to Mom's s…
…avings. Buick title still not done
Sep 12
Prescription · Mom
Sep 12
Prescription · Mom
Sep 14
Dr. Abernathy, first visit. Bone density T-score -3.1. First Prolia shot.
Oct 3
Hospice started a year ago today. I didn't write any of it down then and I'm lo…
…sing the order, so here it is.
April 26, the oncologist, in a room with a poster of a waterfall. Stage four. Both lungs, his liver, a spot on his spine. He asked her if he could still mow. One round of chemo in May. He was sick nine days and said that's enough of that. Father's Day we fished off the bank below the d…
Oct 11
Flu, high dose
Oct 17
Was 20 until the hospital, Jan 2025. Down by 9 am or she is up all night. · Mom
Was 20 until the hospital, Jan 2025. Down by 9 am or she is up all night.
Oct 18
Dr. Rahimi. Ankles. Furosemide 20 in the mornings.
Nov 9
One year. I took the day off and drove Mom out to the cemetery. She brought the…
…last of the mums from the porch. She stood there a while and then read her own name off the stone out loud, and the year she was born, and the dash. She said, "Well, they've got me a place." Then she wanted a fish sandwich. We got fish sandwiches.
Nov 14
Lord. I'd forgotten they made that much racket.
Nov 14
Hearing aids, pair, with charger
Tellman. Mom's savings. Medicare pays nothing. · Hearing aids, pair, with charger
Nov 14
Mom's hearing aids, repair and loss
Nov 15
Mom got her hearing aids yesterday. Forty-two hundred dollars. The audiologist…
…switched them on and Mom looked at the window. There's a feeder outside that office and it was covered in sparrows. She cried a little. On the way home she told me the truck is too loud and I talk too much.
Nov 16
red = right, blue = left
charger every night, green light
wax guards monthly. domes medium closed
look: nightstand, kitchen windowsill, robe pocket, butter dish
Tellman cleans free Tu/Th
Nov 16
Hearing aids fitted at Tellman.
Nov 17
Mom's hearing aids (pair)
Nov 19
Thanksgiving, Mom's. turkey breast (4 of us), her dressing - cornbread the day…
…before, green beans, sweet potatoes, canned cranberry
Betty - pecan pie, Linda's bringing her
Russ - no
Nov 22
Mom's cornbread
9 in iron skillet, bacon grease, oven 450 till it smokes
2 c white self-rising cornmeal
1 egg
buttermilk till it looks right (~1 3/4 c)
NO sugar
hot skillet, should sizzle. 20-25 min
Dec 7
Mom's flip phone
Dec 26
Christmas was easier than last year. Mom wore the new robe all day. Cam told he…
…r about the colleges she got into and Mom said Knoxville is too far, and then asked how far, and Cam said two hours, and Mom said that's not so far. Cam's going to Knoxville.
2024
Jan 21
Snow and then ice, Monday through Friday. Eight inches in Cleveland. Roz couldn…
…'t get there Monday or Wednesday. I couldn't get there at all until Thursday afternoon, with the truck in four-wheel the whole way and two semis jackknifed on 75.
I called her four times a day. Mrs. Jenkins walked over twice in her late husband's boots. Bobby Kirkland salted her carport.
She was fine. She'd been ea…
Feb 10
Pettibone by 3/1
mine: W-2, 1098, FSA, property tax, Tanager interest
Mom: SSA-1099, 1099-R pension, 1099-R IRA, 1099-INT x2, Gentle Ridge 2023 = $13,416 (March on)
her copays + mileage - still have to add those up
Feb 15
Cameo brooch
Mar 10
Did Mom's numbers at the kitchen table tonight. What comes in, what goes out. R…
…oz is about fourteen hundred a month. It comes out a little ahead if nothing breaks. Things break.
Then I did mine. Cam starts college in August.
I met somebody. Mike's wife's cousin, at their fish fry. Carla. She's a dental hygienist and she's been divorced longer than I have. I told her inside of ten minutes that…
Mar 17
Mom freezer, what worked - chicken & rice (no canned soup) x6, pintos no ham ho…
…ck, meatloaf half salt, veg soup w/ no-salt tomatoes
label w/ the DAY not the date
Mar 30
Mom's email
Apr 9
Prescription · Mom
Apr 9
Dr. Tsai. eGFR 39. Off omeprazole, on famotidine.
May 7
Mom's wedding set
She wears the band. The engagement ring is in the fireproof box.
May 12
Cam graduation Sat 5/18 10 am, arena, doors 9
6 tickets - me, Mom (wheelchair sec 112), Denise + Brian, Betty, Carla
lunch 12:45 for 8 under Pruitt
Mom's pills, her tag
May 19
Camille graduated yesterday. Honors cords. She found us in the crowd from the f…
…loor and pointed at Mom in the wheelchair section and waved with both arms.
Denise sat two seats down from me. We were fine.
Mom told every person at lunch that Camille was going to be a nurse. Cam hasn't decided that. I think Mom decided it.
I wished Dad had seen it.
May 30
Sorrelwood Pharmacy refill site (Mom)
Jun 19
Mom's yearly visit yesterday. The nurse gave her three words to remember and as…
…ked her the date. She got one word. She said it was May. It was June 18th.
Tolbert said let's watch it. He said it to me in the hall, not in front of her.
She knows the words to four hundred hymns. She knows what Dot Rainey's mother died of. She couldn't tell you what she had for lunch.
I've been saying she's just…
Jun 21
Wellness visit, Dr. Tolbert. Weight 154. A1c 8.1. Missed the date and two of th…
…ree words on the memory screen.
Aug 4
Wi-Fi, Mom's house
Aug 21
Roz came in 9:15, Mom at the table in her gown, sweating, not making sense. sug…
…ar 41 on the old meter. juice, 911, then me.
ER says the glipizide. took it and didn't eat, or took it twice.
glipizide is DONE.
if Roz had been a Tuesday -
get: real meter, glucose tablets - kitchen, purse, nightstand
Aug 22
Yesterday Roz walked in and found Mom at the table soaked through and talking n…
…onsense. Blood sugar 41. Roz got juice in her and called the ambulance and then me. I was on a roof in Red Bank looking at an air handler. I don't remember the drive.
By the time I got to Whitlow she was sitting up eating graham crackers and asked me why I wasn't at work.
It was Wednesday. Roz comes Wednesday. If i…
Aug 23
Lantus pen (Abernathy's nurse showed us both)
1. new needle every time
2. dial 2, point up, press - see a drop
3. dial the dose
4. belly, 2 in from the navel, switch sides
5. press, count 10 slow
6. needle in the red jug
pen out of the fridge is good 28 days - sharpie the date on it
9 pm. I call.
under 80 call the office. under 70 juice first
Aug 23
Dr. Abernathy. 10 units 8/23/2024, 14 units 11/12/2024, 18 since 2/17/2026. · Mom
Dr. Abernathy. 10 units 8/23/2024, 14 units 11/12/2024, 18 since 2/17/2026.
Aug 23
Kitchen drawer left of the stove, and one in Roz's bag. · Mom
Kitchen drawer left of the stove, and one in Roz's bag.
Aug 24
ER, Whitlow Memorial. Blood sugar 41. Kept overnight, home 8/22. GLIPIZIDE STOP…
…PED.
Aug 25
Prescription · Mom
Aug 25
Dr. Abernathy. Lantus 10 units at bedtime. Sugar before breakfast and before su…
…pper.
Aug 26
Glucose meter
Sep 1
Mom's fridge, big type
WALT cell 423-555-0148
WALT work 423-555-0117
Mrs. Jenkins 423-555-0136
Roz 423-555-0165
Betty 423-555-0109
Russ 423-555-0124
Dr. Tolbert 423-555-0112
Pharmacy 423-555-0130
PRESS THE BUTTON if you fall
Sep 2
The phone was ringing in Mom's kitchen and I couldn't find it. The kitchen was…
…laid out wrong, the stove where the door is. I knew it was nine o'clock and it was her calling about the insulin, except it's me that calls her. Every drawer I opened had the wall phone cord in it and no phone.
Sep 8
Mom sugars, Lantus 10 (bkfst / supper)
8/24 212 / 188
8/26 198 / 240
8/28 187 / 203
8/31 176 / 195
9/2 181 / 221
9/4 169 /
Oct 10
Flu, high dose
Oct 11
RSV (Arexvy)
Nov 4
Last day of Medicare open enrollment
Nov 5
levothyroxine UP - 88 now (olive), was 75 (purple). threw the purple ones out
Nov 7
Labs. TSH 6.8. Levothyroxine goes from 75 to 88.
Nov 10
Two years yesterday. Mom didn't mention it and I didn't either. I don't know if…
…she knew the date. She asked me at supper whether Walter had paid the light bill, and then she caught it herself and put her fork down. I said, "It's paid, Mom. I paid it." She said, "You're a good boy."
Nov 15
Dr. Abernathy. A1c 8.9. Lantus up to 14 units.
Nov 24
Mom's TV
INPUT must say HDMI 1
Andy Griffith ch 122
church livestream is the iPad, Sun 10:45
big button remote only
Dec 1
Thanksgiving at Mom's. Cam came down Wednesday and did the sweet potatoes. Aunt…
…Betty brought the pie and the two of them, Mom and Betty, told the one about their daddy and the mule.
Russ called during the Lions game. Said next year for sure. Mom said, "He's so busy."
Carla came for dessert. Mom looked her over and asked who her people were. Carla told her. Mom knew a Benford who drove a bread…
Dec 29
End of the year. Camille graduated and left. Mom went on insulin. I got a machi…
…ne to breathe for me at night. I started seeing a woman and have cancelled on her nine times, I counted. Nobody fell this year. I haven't been on the lake since April.
Mom gave me a card with a twenty in it, same as when I was ten. She'd signed it "Mother and Daddy" and then scratched through "and Daddy."
2025
Jan 10
Mom's 80th, fellowship hall after church
Jan 14
HOSPITAL, Whitlow Memorial, 1/14 to 1/18. Heart failure. IV Lasix took 11 lb of…
…f. Amlodipine stopped, furosemide up to 40. Weigh every morning.
Jan 15
Whitlow 226. Rahimi this morning:
- heart failure, not a heart attack. squeezes OK but it's stiff, doesn't fill, fluid backs up - lungs, legs
- the amlodipine was making the swelling worse. stopped
- Lasix by IV till she's "dry", then pills at double
- 4 lb off overnight, all water
- salt. the canned green beans. the saltines.
here till Fri or Sat
Jan 16
Mom's in Whitlow again. Heart failure. She couldn't lie flat Monday night and b…
…y Tuesday morning she was breathing like she'd run up a hill. Nine pounds of water in a week and I didn't see it. I saw her ankles. I thought, her ankles are swollen, I should mention that.
The doctor asked what she eats. I told her about my Sunday cooking, the low-salt chicken, how I label it. I was proud of it. Th…
Jan 19
weight every morning - after the bathroom, before breakfast, gown only
scale stays on the tile
Roz writes it on the fridge calendar M-W-F, Mom the other days. I check Sundays
Jan 22
Bathroom scale
Jan 25
Whitlow discharge packet Jan 2025
Feb 2
Mom 80 - party Sun 2/9 after church, fellowship hall 12:15
cake - white, yellow roses, "Happy 80th Lorraine", half sheet. pick up Sat by 4
Russ & Tammy in Fri night, out Mon
under 2 hrs
Feb 7
Echo. EF 55%. Dr. Rahimi.
Feb 10
Mom's 80th was yesterday at the church. Sixty people. She wore the blue dress a…
…nd held court. She knew every one of them and whose grandchild was whose.
Russ and Tammy came. First time he's been in that house since the funeral. He went in the den and stood where the hospital bed was.
He and I ended up on the carport after, like always. He said she seems great. I said she's great for two hours…
Mar 6
ELIQUIS IS 2.5 MG NOW, twice a day. Rahimi - age + kidneys. pink was the 5, new…
…one is yellow. old bottle is in MY trash
Mar 6
2.5 since 3/6/2025, Dr. Rahimi. Never skip, never double up. · Mom
2.5 since 3/6/2025, Dr. Rahimi. Never skip, never double up.
Mar 8
Changed the Eliquis this week. Half the dose. That makes seven changes to her m…
…edicines in seven months and I'm the only one who has all of them written in one place. Tolbert's list still had amlodipine on it. The hospital's had glipizide. I corrected both and the girl at the desk said they'd update it and I watched her not write it down.
Mar 8
Dr. Rahimi. Eliquis down to 2.5 mg twice a day.
Mar 11
Mom's cat. T4 high, hyperthyroid. Methimazole twice a day. Recheck 9/16 was nor…
…mal.
Mar 11
Mom's cat. On top of the fridge, away from Mom's own pills. · clementine
Mom's cat. On top of the fridge, away from Mom's own pills.
Mar 12
cat - methimazole 2x a day, Roz does the AM one in a treat. bottle on TOP of th…
…e fridge, not w/ Mom's
Apr 20
Easter. A good day, start to finish. Church, and she sang. Ham at her house, Ca…
…m and Maddie drove down. In the afternoon I put Dad's tomato bed in and Mom sat in the lawn chair in her Easter dress and a sun hat and bossed the job. She didn't ask where he was once. She said, "Your daddy would have had those in two weeks ago."
May 30
Mom, Dr. Mehta, first visit (memory)
Jun 10
for the memory doctor Thurs
- same question 3-4x in an hour
- checkbook: quit summer 2023
- stove eye left on, twice (March, May)
- calls me Walter sometimes
- can't do the pill box w/o Roz
- still good: church, hymns, recipes, who everybody's people are
- 50 min home from Food City
ask: is it Alzheimer's. what's coming. anything that works. liv…
Jun 12
Dr Mehta
- mild dementia, most likely Alzheimer's type, maybe some small strokes. MRI
- donepezil 5 at bedtime. may slow it. stomach upset
- STOP gabapentin
- alone: OK for now WITH the aide, pendant, daily check, stove knobs off or a shutoff. "this is a today answer"
- driving: short daytime trips, roads she knows. revisit ev…
Jun 12
Dr. Mehta. 5 mg from 6/12/2025, 10 since 9/18/2025. · Mom
Dr. Mehta. 5 mg from 6/12/2025, 10 since 9/18/2025.
Jun 12
The neurologist today. An hour and a half. He had her draw a clock, name animal…
…s, remember five words. She got the animals. She named about every animal on a farm and then said "and a mule" and laughed.
He told her straight, with me sitting there. He said, "Mrs. Pruitt, your memory isn't working the way it should, and I think it's the beginning of Alzheimer's disease." She said, "Well. My moth…
Jun 13
Dr. Mehta. Mild dementia, probably Alzheimer's. Donepezil 5 at bedtime. Gabapen…
…tin stopped. MRI ordered.
Jun 27
Brain MRI at Tarrant Ridge. Small vessel changes, some shrinkage, no stroke, no…
…tumor.
Jun 29
Dr Mehta report June 2025
Jun 29
The report came. I read it at the kitchen counter standing up. It has a score o…
…n it. I'm not going to write the score here.
She called me Walter three times today. Not Walt. One of those times she was talking to me, and two of them she was talking to him.
I answer either way.
Jul 4
shower by herself 8 pm, no Roz, pendant on the sink. slipped stepping out. on t…
…he floor ~20 min, got to the hall phone. nothing broken
- 2nd grab bar, vertical, at the entry
- pendant on a lanyard that doesn't come off
- threshold ramp, carport door
- glue-down strips, not the suction mat
Jul 4
She fell last night getting out of the shower. Alone, no pendant. Nothing broke…
…n. I got to the ER at 9:30 and she was on a gurney in the hall holding her own purse.
I yelled at her. In the car, after. I said what is the point of any of this if you take the thing off. I said do you want to end up in a home. She didn't say anything. She looked out the window. When we got to her house she said, "…
Jul 6
PILL BOX - how I fill it Sundays
two boxes, 7 days each. BLUE = morning. PURPLE = bedtime.
MORNING (Roz hands it to her w/ breakfast, except the thyroid)
levothyroxine 88 - FIRST, by itself, empty stomach. the little green box
Eliquis 2.5
metoprolol 50
losartan 50
furosemide 40
metformin 500
sertraline 50
vitamin D
SUPPER
metformin…
Jul 6
ER, Whitlow Memorial. Slipped getting out of the shower. X-rays, nothing broken…
…. Home the same night.
Jul 17
Medicare.gov account (Mom)
Jul 20
Mom was at the skating rink, the old one, and she was the age she is in the wed…
…ding picture. Nineteen. She skated past and looked right at me and didn't know me, and in the dream that was fine, because why would she, I wasn't born. I stood at the rail with my shoes on. Somebody behind me said, "That's the Hollis girl."
Aug 3
what helps (Cam, Russ, whoever's with her)
- don't quiz her. don't say "remember?"
- where's Dad: "he's not here right now, Mom." then the garden
- late afternoon is the worst. lights on early, Andy on, something to fold
- hymns
- snap beans, fold towels, peel peaches. let her
- one thing at a time
Aug 6
Mom's landline voicemail
Dial *98 from the house phone.
Aug 24
Tired. Not sleepy, the machine fixed sleepy. Tired like a truck that's been run…
…low on oil.
Supper was a drive-thru on 64 again, eaten at the light at Paul Huff. That's four this week.
Mom asked me today if I was getting enough rest. She had me by the chin when she said it, like I was eight. For a second she was all the way there, the whole woman, and she was looking at me and she was worried.…
Sep 18
donepezil 10 tonight (Mehta). same pill, bigger
Sep 19
Dr. Mehta. Donepezil up to 10.
Oct 13
Told Russ the numbers last night. What Roz costs, what Mom gets, what's in the…
…bank, how long it lasts. I'd never said it to him in dollars before. He went quiet, and then he said he'd send three hundred a month.
I said thank you. I meant it and I also wanted to say that I've spent more than that on gas.
He said, "I know you're carrying it." I said somebody has to live here. He said that's no…
Oct 15
Flu, high dose, and COVID booster, at Sorrelwood
Oct 23
Dr. Purcell. Pressures 16 and 17. Early macular degeneration, left eye, watch i…
…t.
Nov 2
CHANGING Mom's drug plan for 2026
Castleberry 31.40 -> 36.10, Eliquis up a tier, $112
SilverPine Rx 38.90, Eliquis 47, Lantus 35. Sorrelwood in network
enrolled 11/2, conf SPR-ENR-7731942
new numbers to Dwayne before January
Nov 9
Switch Mom's drug plan before Dec 7
Nov 9
Three years today. Went to the cemetery by myself this morning before I picked…
…Mom up for church. Told him the truck's got 121,000 on it and the Vols are 6 and 3. Told him I looked at two homes yesterday.
He made me promise to look after her. He didn't say how. He could have meant keep her in that house no matter what. He could have meant see that she's safe wherever that is. He was a precise…
Nov 16
I came into this house with two babies and I'll go out of it feet first. You ca…
…n write that down.
Nov 18
Dr. Tsai. eGFR 36, creatinine 1.5.
Nov 28
Thanksgiving at my house for the first time. I smoked a turkey breast. Mom rode…
…down in the truck with her dressing in her lap, one hand on the foil the whole way. Cam and Maddie, Carla, Betty and Linda. Mom told Carla how to make the dressing and Carla wrote it down on an envelope. Had her home by five. She said, "You've got a nice house, Walt. I don't believe I've been in it." She's been in it…
Dec 7
Mom - digital frame, slippers (same), Jergens, big calendar
Cam - stethoscope $110, gas card
Carla - ??
Roz - $150
Dwayne & the pharmacy girls - pralines
Dec 14
Christmas program at New Harmony tonight. The choir did the old ones. Mom sang…
…every verse of every one without the book, alto, on pitch. She couldn't have told you what month it is. Dot leaned over and said, "It's all still in there." I don't know if that's so.
Dec 26
Give Dwayne Mom's new SilverPine numbers before the first January refill
Dec 28
paid for Mom out of my pocket 2025
shower bar, ramp, lanyard 163.28
scale 32.97
groceries ~40/wk = ~2,000
Clementine vet 286
her Christmas gifts 215
gas - 148 trips x 62 mi
paid back: 0
Dec 30
Mom medical miles 2025 (from her house)
Tolbert x5 - 30
Rahimi x4 - 36
Tsai x3 - 27
Abernathy x4 - 232
Mehta x3 - 198
MRI - 64
eyes, feet, ears, teeth - 9 trips ~70
Whitlow Jan + July ER - 48
~705
2026
Jan 6
Medicare Part D drug plan
Since 1/1/2026. RxBIN 610742, PCN SPRX.
Jan 6
MOM - insurance numbers (new drug card came)
Medicare 4KT7-WL2-MS63
Evermont Plan G - EVG80447162 - 888-555-0114
SilverPine Rx (NEW 1/1/26) - SPR40981775 - grp PDPTN04 - BIN 610742 - PCN SPRX
house - Dunmore & Pike DP-H-0381-775426 - Wanda 423-555-0178
Buick - Dunmore & Pike DP-A-0381-520917
long-term care - Lanternfield LTC-04-2291847 - 888-555-0108
her life po…
Jan 6
SilverPine Rx premium (Mom) · $38.9
Comes out of her Social Security before it's deposited. · SilverPine Rx premium (Mom)
Jan 6
SilverPine Rx member site (Mom's drug plan)
Jan 10
Mom's income 2026
Social Security $2,189.80 gross. minus Part B 202.90, minus drug plan 38.90 = $1,948.00 deposited, 2nd Wednesday
Pension (Calloway Range, survivor half) $612.00 on the 1st
IRA - has to take out about $1,610 this December
CD interest ~$2,400 for the year, stays in the CDs
so $2,560 a month
Jan 11
The agency went up to twenty-nine an hour. I did the arithmetic again tonight.…
…It still works at three mornings a week. It doesn't work at five, and five is coming. Roz said so herself, carefully, on Friday. She said Mom isn't getting dressed on the days she's not there.
Russ's three hundred came twice and stopped. I'm not going to chase my brother for three hundred dollars.
There's a long-te…
Jan 13
Lanternfield LTC schedule of benefits
Jan 18
who does what (for Cam)
Tolbert - regular doctor. every 4 mo + wellness in June
Rahimi - heart, blood thinner, fluid pill. Jan, July
Abernathy - diabetes, thyroid, bone shot. Chattanooga
Tsai - kidneys, every 4 mo
Mehta - memory, every 6 mo. Chattanooga
Purcell - eyes. October
Markovic - feet, every 10 wks
Tellman - hearing aids
Lyle - teeth…
Jan 31
Tax folders to Pettibone, mine and Mom's
Feb 12
Mom was 81 yesterday. I fried crappie at her stove and she stood at my elbow an…
…d told me the grease wasn't hot enough. It wasn't. Cam called at six and Mom told her all about a party at the church with sixty people, which was last year. Cam said that sounds wonderful, Grandma.
Feb 17
Lantus 18 from tonight. A1c 8.4. wrote it on box
Feb 18
Mom med list
Feb 20
Dr. Abernathy. A1c 8.4. Lantus up to 18 units.
Feb 21
taxes dropped off
mine - W-2, 1098, Cam's 1098-T, FSA
Mom - SSA-1099, 1099-R x2, CD interest, Gentle Ridge 2025 $17,160, copays 1,236, miles 705
fees 325 / 210
Mar 9
Buick title - STILL in Dad's name (Walter E. Pruitt, no Jr.)
clerk says, to put it in Mom's:
- certified death cert (have 3)
- the title
- affidavit of inheritance, notarized, form's at the counter
- Mom signs, or me as POA w/ the POA
- $20-something
clerk closes 4:30
Wanda: title first, then the insurance
Mar 22
stove shutoff on Mom's range - motion sensor, cuts the gas if nobody's in the k…
…itchen 5 min. $289. told her it's a new code thing
Mar 26
Mom, Prolia shot at Abernathy's
Mar 26
2025 taxes - Pettibone has Mom's whole return. mine is in the desk, brown envel…
…ope, w/ the 1098-T
Apr 2
"grandson in jail in Atlanta", $2,800 in gift cards. Mom's landline. Roz took t…
…he phone
- call blocking on (*77)
- sign by the phone
- told the bank. her debit card stays in MY wallet, she has $40 cash
Apr 3
Some man called Mom yesterday and said he was her grandson and he was in jail.…
…She was looking for her pocketbook when Roz took the phone. I've been angry for twenty-four hours at a person I'll never find. Not that he tried to steal. That he said "Grandma" to her in a voice she wanted to believe, and for a minute she had a grandson in trouble, and she was scared for him.
Apr 6
Buick title into Mom's name, county clerk
Apr 15
Prolia shot number 6.
Apr 25
Cable and phone account PIN (Mom's house)
May 4
Mom, Dr. Tolbert, hospital follow-up
May 20
Whitlow 241. hospitalist (not Tolbert):
- urinary infection. at her age w/ the memory that alone can do it. "delirium on top of dementia". should mostly clear
- IV antibiotic picked around the penicillin and sulfa. told them twice, it's on her band
- kidneys took a hit, creatinine 1.8. fluids slow because of the heart
- insulin by their scale while she's he…
May 20
Whitlow again. Roz called at ten this morning and said Mom didn't know what day…
…it was and was asking for Dad to come in from work. She had a fever. It's a urinary infection, and at her age and with her memory that's enough to take the floor out.
She's on an IV. I told three different people about the penicillin and the sulfa. It was already on her wristband. I told them anyway.
She knew me to…
May 21
Mail the Wrenfield Place waitlist form and the $500
May 22
HOSPITAL, Whitlow Memorial, 5/20 to 5/22. Urinary infection, fever 101.4, confu…
…sed. Two days of IV antibiotics, home on pills.
May 22
what the nurse said to watch for - it doesn't look like a bladder infection in…
…old people
- sudden: more confused than her normal, sleepy, mean, seeing things
- not eating, new falls
- may never say it burns
- fever maybe
FIRST: urine test. Tolbert's does a same-day drop off, Roz can take the cup
May 22
Whitlow has LATEX on her allergy list. she doesn't. told the nurse - it stays t…
…ill a doctor takes it off. ask Tolbert
May 23
ER bag - red tote, hall closet floor at Mom's
med list
her cards. POA + health care form
allergy card
hearing aids + charger, glasses, teeth cup
her meter. NOT her insulin
long phone cord
robe, gripper socks, sweater
$20 in ones
May 24
Home Friday. She's most of the way back. Not all. The doctor said that's how it…
…goes, each one of these takes a little and gives most of it back.
Roz and I talked on the carport. She'll do five mornings. I called Pam and it starts the first of June.
That's twenty-five hundred a month, and Mom brings in twenty-five sixty. So from here on the house, the lights, the insurance and the groceries al…
May 26
Whitlow discharge May 2026 scan
Jun 2
Dr. Tolbert, hospital follow-up. Urine clear. Weight 149.
Jun 3
Tolbert letter for Lanternfield
Jun 7
First week of Roz five days. Mom was dressed every morning by ten. Hair combed.…
…Roz had her shelling peas on the carport Thursday. I didn't know how tight I'd been wound about Tuesdays and Thursdays until there weren't any. I slept eight hours Wednesday night.
Jun 17
Mom, Dr. Rahimi
Jun 17
File the Lanternfield claim
Jul 8
Lanternfield nurse at Mom's house
Jul 8
Lanternfield CLAIM opened. LTC-CL-2607-33915. 888-555-0108, Marguerite ext 4410
they want:
- claim form + the POA - sent
- doctor's statement (2 of 6, or cognitive) - Tolbert's letter
- agency license + plan of care - Pam
- their nurse comes to the house
90 days OF PAID CARE, not calendar, from today. 5 days/wk = 18 wks. ~Nov 12
then pays what Roz costs up to the daily limit. invoices every month…
Jul 8
Lanternfield claims site (Mom's long-term care)
Invoices go here every month.
Jul 9
Filed the claim on Mom's long-term-care policy yesterday. I read the whole poli…
…cy first, twice, with a highlighter, like a spec book. It does cover home care. It's been sitting in that box the whole three years I've been writing checks to Gentle Ridge.
I could be sick about that. Three years. But she wouldn't have qualified at three mornings a week with her mind mostly right. She does now.
Da…
Jul 13
Rahimi tomorrow 10:20
- weights 147-150 since May
- dizzy standing up 2x last wk. BP 112/64 once
- did the May fluids hurt anything
- Eliquis still right at 2.5?
- knee injection (Voss) on the blood thinner?
bring: weight calendar, BP log, med list
Jul 16
Dr. Rahimi. Pulse 72, BP 128/70. No changes.
Aug 5
Lanternfield nurse at Mom's 1:00-2:15. watched her get up, walk, asked the date…
…, clock drawing. asked Roz what she does. letter in 2 wks
Aug 6
The insurance company's nurse came to see Mom yesterday. Mom put on lipstick an…
…d her church shoes and told the woman she does all her own cooking and cleaning and drives herself everywhere. Then she couldn't say what year it is, and drew a clock with all the numbers on one side. I sat there needing my mother to fail a test. She did, and I was relieved, and then I had to go stand in the yard.
Aug 11
Dr. Tsai. eGFR 34, creatinine 1.58.
Aug 20
That mailbox has moved. Bobby Kirkland set it back wrong after the county paved.
Aug 22
Lanternfield letter 8-19-26
Aug 23
the driving (Mehta will ask)
- June 2025: 50 min home from Food City
- Feb: backed into the trash can
- July: pulled out in front of a truck on 25th (Dot)
- Aug 20: passenger mirror, mailbox
~15 miles a week
license is up this fall
Aug 23
Got the Buick's mirror fixed yesterday. Second thing she's hit this year.
Dad bought that car for her. He drove it home and handed her the keys in the carport and said it's got heated seats, Lorraine. She's had it twelve years and it has fifty-six thousand miles on it and it's the last thing she does by herself.
I can take the keys. I've got the paper that says I can do about anything. I h…
Aug 27
EVERMONT NAME
Whitlow billed Mom $1,736, May stay. Medicare hospital deductible, Plan G pays that
denied - "member name does not match". card says LORRAINE H PRUITT, Medicare says M. H = Hollis, typed in 2010
8/27 Evermont - Joy, ref EV-2608-55172. fixing it, wanted her Medicare card + license. faxed
8/27 Whitlow billing - Carol. 6…
Aug 27
Evermont EOB
Aug 27
Evermont member site (Mom's supplement)
Aug 30
Grandmother Hollis's pearls
Appraised 2019 at $1,400. Promised to Camille.
Sep 1
Run Mom's drug list through the Medicare plan finder
Sep 2
Pay Gentle Ridge for September and upload the invoice to Lanternfield
Sep 5
Pay the Lanternfield long-term-care premium
Sep 5
Mom, Prolia shot due at Dr. Abernathy's
Sep 5
Mom's driving evaluation, Tarrant Ridge outpatient rehab
Sep 6
Mom, Dr. Markovic (feet)
Sep 6
Mom per month, Roz at 5 days
IN 2,560 (SS 1,948 + pension 612)
OUT
Roz 2,500
utilities, phone, TV 360
Evermont 214.50
LTC premium 239 (2,870/yr)
house ins 108, car ins 62, property tax 122
groceries 380
church 100, hair 120, yard 105, pendant 35, paper 16.50, bugs 32
other 150
= ~4,540
SHORT ~1,980/mo, out of savings since June…
Sep 7
Mom's house insurance renews next week
Sep 7
Labor Day, all day at Mom's, Roz off. A good one.
We picked the last tomatoes. She made cornbread, start to finish, no help, didn't measure, and it was right. She told me how she met Dad at the skating rink in Benton. She was eighteen and he was just out of the Army and he couldn't skate. He held the rail the whole night and asked her three times if she wanted a Coke…
Sep 8
Mom, Dr. Mehta
Sep 8
Mom, flu shot and COVID booster at Sorrelwood
Sep 9
Mom, Dr. Purcell, yearly eye visit
Sep 10
Mom, Dr. Tolbert, 4-month visit
Sep 11
Whitlow Memorial Hospital, May stay, patient balance (Mom) · $1736.0
DO NOT PAY yet. Evermont should cover it. On hold, ask for Carol. · Whitlow Memorial Hospital, May stay, patient balance (Mom)
Sep 11
Mom, Dr. Rahimi, 6-month visit
Sep 11
Fill Mom's pill boxes (every Sunday)
Sep 12
Labs at Dr. Tolbert's.
Sep 13
Alabama Oct 17. who sits w/ Mom - Roz? Linda?
Sep 14
Dad, four years
Sep 14
Mom's Eliquis, no refills left
Sep 14
Mom, Dr. Lyle, cleaning
Sep 15
Pay Mom's property tax, county and city
Sep 15
Medicare open enrollment ends today
Sep 16
Mom's hearing aids to Tellman for the full check
Sep 16
Physical yesterday. Sugar's up. Pressure's up. Weight's up. Dr. Kemp turned her…
…stool around and asked who's looking after me. I said the dog. She didn't laugh.
She said she sees this, people my age who look after a parent and turn up in her office five years later with the parent's chart. She said I've got my mother's A1c from fifteen years ago.
I told her I'd walk. She said that's what I tol…
Sep 18
Mom, calcium blood test before the Prolia shot
Sep 18
Mom, Dr. Tsai (kidney), labs the week before
Sep 19
Mom's prescriptions, September pickup
Sep 19
Mom's furnace - filter changed (20x25x1, 4 on the shelf), flame sensor cleaned,…
…CO detector batteries. thermostat 74, cover on
Sep 19
Tennessee-Alabama with Camille
Sep 20
Mom - eggs, buttermilk, light bread, no-salt green beans x4, unsalted tops, pea…
…ches in juice, bananas, oatmeal, chicken thighs, vanilla wafers, decaf, cat food - pate, litter, AA batteries for the remote
Sep 20
Evermont card with the corrected name should have come
Sep 20
Check that Abernathy's office renewed Mom's levothyroxine
Sep 21
Mom's house policy - dec page in the fire box? ask Wanda for another before it…
…renews
Sep 21
Mom's handicap placard expires in two weeks
Sep 21
Whitlow billing hold on Mom's $1,736 is about up
Sep 21
Furnace filter at Mom's (20x25x1)
Sep 23
Mom's IRA, take the required withdrawal before Dec 31
Sep 24
Mom's driver's license expires in a week
Sep 24
Mom's new debit card is coming in the mail
Sep 25
Dr. Mehta yesterday. The test was down some from last year. He asked her about…
…driving and she said she's been driving since 1961 and never had a ticket. He said he'd like her to do an evaluation, a test drive with a therapist, before she renews. She said, "I don't need a test." He said, "Then it'll be easy."
She didn't speak to me from Chattanooga to the Ooltewah exit. Then she said, "You put…
Sep 27
Dr. Mehta. Memory test a little worse than last year. Driving evaluation before…
…the license gets renewed.
Sep 28
refills left (counted w/ the pill box)
Eliquis - 0. Rahimi's office, left a message w/ the nurse
levothyroxine - 0. request sent thru Dwayne
Lantus - 1 box
metoprolol, losartan, furosemide - 2 each
metformin - 3
atorvastatin, famotidine, sertraline - plenty
donepezil - 11
eye drops - 1
strips - early Nov
Prolia - mid Oct, calcium lab first
Sep 30
flu shots - Mom at Sorrelwood, a Roz morning
Oct 1
Bobby Kirkland, mowing (Mom's house) · $180.0
Bobby Kirkland, mowing (Mom's house)
Oct 1
SilverPine 2027 changes
Oct 1
SilverPine going up for 2027. open enrollment 10/15 - 12/7. run her list thru t…
…he plan finder - Eliquis, Lantus, donepezil, Sorrelwood
Oct 2
Gentle Ridge Home Care, September invoice (Roz) · $2436.0
Check from Mom's account. Then send it to Lanternfield. · Gentle Ridge Home Care, September invoice (Roz)
Oct 2
Property tax, Mom's house (Bradley County and City of Cleveland) · $1462.0
County $911, city $551. Senior tax freeze, re-certify every year. · Property tax, Mom's house (Bradley County and City of Cleveland)
Oct 2
Russ and Tammy - Tues 11/24 to Sat 11/28. they stay at Mom's (bench grinder off…
…the bed)
tell Russ before he gets here
dinner at Mom's. Cam, Betty, Linda & hers
Russ - Dad's dresser, w/ Mom
Oct 3
Russ is coming for Thanksgiving. Tammy sent the flights. Five days.
I've been composing what I'll say to him since Tuesday. Most of the drafts aren't kind. The one I'll use is, "Spend a morning with her and Roz. Then tell me what you think we ought to do." Because I'd like to hear it. I've been deciding everything by myself for three years and eleven months.
Cool this morning, first…
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Facts
| First name | Lorraine |
|---|---|
| Middle name | Mae |
| Last name | Pruitt |
| Nickname | Mom |
| Date of birth | 1945-02-11 |
| Gender | Female |
| Comments | Hollis before she married. |
Phones
- number: '4235550162' variant: Home - number: '4235550139' variant: Mobile
Emails
- email: lorraine.pruitt@ridgemail.example variant: Personal
Addresses
- variant: Home street_address_1: 2217 Larkmoor Lane NW city: Cleveland state: Tennessee postal_code: '37312'
People
Walt PruittMom is parent of Walt Pruitt Clementine
pet
Appears with
People linked to the same records.
Roz · 2 records Mrs. Jenkins · 2 records Dad · 1 record Cam · 1 record Russ · 1 record Tammy (Russ's wife) · 1 record Cody Pruitt · 1 record Paige Pruitt · 1 record Denise Halloran · 1 record Aunt Betty · 1 record Uncle Harold · 1 record Linda Gossett · 1 recordQuestions
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Questions whose supporting records include Mom or a record linked to them.
q011 I'm at the Whitlow ER desk with Mom. Full name, date of birth, social and address? q018 Fill out a hospital admission sheet for Mom with everything they usually ask. q065 What's Mom's blood type? q003 What's the VIN of my car? q007 When does Lorraine's driver's license expire? q008 Whose passports are expired? q012 What insurance does Mom have? They want the member numbers. q013 List Mom's current medications with dose and how often. q014 What is Mom allergic to? q015 What surgeries has Mom had, and when? q016 Who's Mom's primary doctor and who are her specialists? Phone numbers too. q017 Who do they put down as emergency contact, and who has her health care power of attorney? q019 What's coming up for renewal for Mom in the next couple of months? q023 When does the insurance expire? q025 Whose name is the Buick in? q027 What's the mortgage payment on Mom's house? q029 What's Walter's date of birth? q030 How many units of Lantus does Mom take? q031 How much is the thyroid pill? q032 What's the policy number on Mom's house insurance? q033 Is Mom on Eliquis 5 or 2.5? q034 Is Mom allergic to latex? q035 When is Mom's next Prolia shot due? q040 What am I supposed to do if Mom's weight is up 3 pounds overnight? q041 Does the power of attorney let me sell Mom's house? q044 What does the long-term-care policy pay per day, and how long is the wait? q045 What did Mom score on the memory test with Dr. Mehta? q050 What was Mom's kidney number on the September labs? q052 What's the Rx number on Mom's levothyroxine? I want to call in the refill. q053 What antibiotic did they send Mom home on in May, and what dose? q054 What did the discharge papers say about her water pill? q055 Is Mom back on her metformin? q056 Has the long-term care started paying yet? q057 Did I ever send in the Wrenfield waitlist form? q059 How much have Mom's prescriptions cost this year? q060 What name is on Mom's Evermont card? q062 What blood pressure pill am I on? q063 Can Mom take amoxicillin? There's some on the list.