Adele in Hospice

Some concerning news this morning, from Adele Siegel’s son Harvey: Adele went to Palm Beach Gardens hospital, with a broken hip from a fall at her rehab facility on August 31. She isn’t doing well, after the surgery to pin her hip back together. She already had some dementia earlier, but now the anesthesia and subsequent pain meds have her very disoriented. She‘s had problems swallowing for years, but it‘s worse now. They wanted to install a feeding tube, but she was having none of it. She’s unable to talk - pretty much out of it. Harvey is not optimistic about her recovery - they recently moved her to hospice. So sad we can’t call and talk with her. I asked Harvey about sending a card and flowers, and he said she's not capable of knowing or appreciating something like that. 

Update 9/17/2020: Adele’s good friend Alice says that "Adele is still with us, but she is unconscious, and feeling no pain."

We are holding her close in our hearts. I’m also very sad, that my dad couldn’t be there for her, during this difficult time. This photo is from our visit in January, before the COVID-19 concerns kept us from traveling to visit again.