2026 Life Logs, Day 159: Flying Angels and Braver Angels
Date: Monday, June 8, 2026
Weather: Sunny and Warm; High Temp 73, Low 57 degrees F
Location: At Home with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I spent most of my day, once again, working on things that need to be done in order to move my sister from assisted living in North Carolina to memory care here on the Cape. I had a long discussion with the triage nurse at her doctor’s office this morning posing questions that I need answers to before she moves. Most importantly, whether or not they can get her off insulin injections and back on pills for her diabetes. Assisted living/memory care facilities in the state of Massachusetts cannot give insulin shots. A family member can do it, but that means I would have to go every evening after dinner to administer the shot. Or we can hire an outside nurse for $75 and upwards per day depending on the case. Ugh.
I went from talking to the triage nurse to having my first communication with ‘angels’ today—but not my last. This first was to reach out to Flying Angels to check on the price of a medically assisted door to door transfer of my sister. The Flying Angels take care of all arrangements, buy the flight tickets (one for me and one for Patsy) to fly on a non-stop commercial flight with a registered nurse accompanying us and then transport us from Boston to the Cape upon arrival. It would save me hours of calls to airlines to get special help at the airport, to TSA to try and get ID for her, and to lessen the stress on me of dealing with the whole thing by myself on the day of the transport. The total cost is $9,000 including the plane fare for both of us. That is pricey, but it is an option.
I spent the entire afternoon at Bridges filling out paperwork and delivering the deposit check that was sent from Patsy’s Power of Attorney via USPS Priority from the Villages in Florida last Tuesday. That supposed 2-day service didn’t arrive until today. When I delivered the check, I just stayed and did the paperwork to get things finalized. I got home just in time to play outside with Shadow and dash to the library for another ‘angels’ encounter. This was with Braver Angels for a two-and-a-half-hour workshop on Depolarizing Within. I learned one thing form the workshop. I have a long way to go in order to depolarize from within. Hard work.
