Carol Zangrilli forwarded this information from a note written by Aunt Izzy's daughter, Bonnie Snyder.
Bonnie writes:
"I just wanted to let everyone at the reunion know how Mom is doing. It is so hard to miss seeing everyone. Mom fell and broke her leg in September of 2008, she also had a dreadful gash in the same leg. The gash was mostly healed but just this last week the nurse called to say it had broken open again because her skin is so fragile. The bone has started to heal since they have been using a Nerve Stimulator machine, but the doctor says it is like molasses - it is healing so slow.
As you know Mom's memory is not good. There are days when she doesn't know if I am her sister or her daughter. At least she knows us, when Tom and I go in to visit. She doesn't always remember Dad, but she knows all her sisters and brother and the order in which they were born. I have lots of pictures on her bulletin board to remind her of everyone in the family. She still thinks Poppy is alive and sometimes Grandma Snavely, too. She remembers turning somersaults in the mulberry tree, so sometimes I think she sees herself as a little girl. She forgets where she lives after about 30 minutes and starts to get frightened, but as soon as she sees her name by her door and the pictures she is okay.
Hopefully she will be able to put weight on that leg someday, so that she can help get herself from the wheelchair to the bed and vice versa. Until she can, she cannot go anywhere unless she takes the Wheelchair transit.
She is usually happy and easy to get along with everyone. She likes to get cards or notes in the mail...if anyone wants to write."
Aunt Izzy's address is:
Isabelle L. Stiffler D-365
Saint Mary's Home of Erie-East
607 E. 26th Street
Erie, PA 16504
Please commit to sending Aunt Izzy a few lines.
