Report from Glenn

Monday, April 15

Here is a summary of my contact with Bernie today:

After several unsuccessful tries, I was finally able to talk to Bernie on the phone in his room this morning.  When I asked him if he was out of isolation, he said yes, and that was encouraging to hear.  When I asked him if he knew when he'd be going back to Nazareth House, he said that no one has told him.  I said he must be looking forward to going back there and he said emphatically yes.

He told me that if visitors come, they should phone first, and I said I would surely do that before I visited him.  I suggested that when I do visit him, after he gets back to Nazareth House, maybe I could take him for a drive and we'd go down to the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco to have lunch, which is something he and I have done many times in the past when he lived in his apartment. He reacted very positively to that and said he'd like very much to do that.

Since he indicated in the beginning of the call he didn't want to talk long, I said goodbye and that I would get up to visit him soon.

He did not seem at all negative or depressed, but rather more neutral, which to me was an improvement since the last time I had last seen or talked with Bernie.