DAY 111 - 26th November, Tuesday
Keri refused to get out of bed until the afternoon again even with the staff coming in repeatedly trying to encourage her to get up. By the time she got up she hadn't been up for even an hour before she was called in to have her ward round.
Her ward round consisted of Keri, her psychiatrist, and Blondie, plus Sye from Alder Unit in the beginning. Basically to put a long story short, Sye said that he would be happy to have Keri transferred to his unit on Monday, which is six days time, however she'd still have to remain sectioned. Keri was shocked at how quickly they were hoping to get her there but also glad that she would finally be leaving the acute ward. It's been nearly 4 months! To be able to move, Keri has to go out on unescorted ground leave every day starting tomorrow, even if it's just ten minutes. Her psychiatrist also turned around and said that she had been thinking about Keri's medication situation and wanted to add a mood stabiliser. She's already on antipsychotics, antidepressants, sleeping medication, benzodiazepines... and now she wants to add a mood stabiliser? Ridiculous! She's hoping it'll help Keri stay stable when it gets to the point they start weaning her off the high dose of Diazepam when she moves to Alder. They're going to have to wean her off very slowly over several months. So that was basically her ward round.
Since then Sally has been going nuts. She's been shouting and screaming which has meant Keri's ended up spending all day with her headphones on and sat in an almost catatonic stupor. She even tried talking to patients this evening but was hearing things they weren't actually saying, so they were getting confused and so was Keri. Jen gave her Lorazepam along with her sleeping meds at 1am and Keri's currently temporarily back onto ten minute observation as she was talking to Jen about how much Sally's behaviour was effecting her. I wouldn't be surprised if she comes out and slashes Keri's arm in a "Fuck you" kind of way. The problem is Keri's getting sleep deprived because of all this and it was even stated in ward round about how tired and haunted she looked. It's amazing how a couple of days can make such a difference to your appearance.
One achievement (well, Keri's in limbo about it even though she's tried hard to achieve it she's thinking of dieting again..) Keri is at a 'healthy' weight!
Keri's CPN visited and she had physio but nothing exciting happened. Her CPN mentioned something about Keri being sectioned for 10 months?! I wasn't really listening so I'm really hoping I heard it out of context.The physio decided to electrocute her with a tens machine. I've never seen one of these before but she brought it up to try on Keri so see if it would help Keri if she consciously wanted to self harm. A tens machine basically sends out an electric shock repetitively and is used for pain relief, but if you turn it up high enough then it causes quite a lot of discomfort. Keri was really nervous when the physio first put it on. Her first thought was that it was going to be like being tazered; which Keri experienced once before when she was psychotic. Not a pleasant experience! But a tens machine is nothing like that. They tried it on Keri's arm but because of her injuries the physio couldn't turn it up too high. She's coming back tomorrow and try on the back of her neck. How exciting...
She did have some leave with Cat but got panicky. It was dark and she was seeing young children. By the time she got back she needed Lorazepam and ended up having a panic attack. Darkness and young children are two of Keri's massive triggers at the moment so it's a bloody good job she went out escorted!
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