Written by Fox.
DAY 129 & 130 - 14th & 15th December, Saturday & Sunday
Could this get any worse? Luckily Keri hasn't been carted off to a secure ward yet but the police are getting very concerned.
Keri woke up yesterday with another bad headache. She spent most of the time in her room because another patient kept turning up all the TVs in each lounge on full volume which didn't help Keri's headache. It turned into a game between him turning everything on, the staff turning it all down, then the cycle started again.
Keri tried to cope and was hoping to get to sleep. She didn't expect anything to happen as it was gone 9pm and the staff were having handover. Unfortunately for her Sally had other ideas. Her memories have been flooding me today.
Sally decided to jump the fence out in the back garden and made her way to the suspension bridge. Normally she goes up by the observatory, let's Keri out and Keri makes a run for the bridge. I don't know why, but it took Sally a lot longer being able to get up there and just as she was walking the dark path to the observatory a policeman with a flashlight was wandering around. Sally didn't want to let Keri out so she tried hiding. When that didn't work she just walked and acted casual.
"Keri?" he said, approaching Sally.
"No," she said, immediately trying to walk past him.
"Oh no you don't," he said, grabbing Sally's arm. "You're coming with me."
Sally was partially compliant when the officer realised Keri was still in a dissociative state. Plus they were walking in the direction of the bridge so she was fine going that way. By the time they got to the bottom of the path to get to the bridge Sally kicked off big time which meant the officer called in for back up. It was the usual, swearing, verbal and physical aggression. The officer had to restrain her against a fence before twisting her arms behind her back to be able to get her to the side of the car. Sally kept kicking and kicking at him while he held her against the car. Luckily his colleague arrived and managed to help so that they could handcuff Sally's hands behind her back.
Instead of getting a van they got her in a car with another officer holding onto her. The officer driving obviously knew Keri as he was saying "We'll take her back to the ward and they'll do nothing as usual. Keri's got a complicated illness. She's normally a very nice girl unless she's like she is now and this Sally persona comes out." Sally started kicking off again after a few minutes and the officer with her had to keep hold of her hands as the other officer had already said she could slip out of the handcuffs.
"I ain't lettin' you take her back to that fucking hospital!" Sally screeched at the officer, kicking out at the back of the chair.
"Sally we've got no choice here," the officer said. "You need to calm down. You aren't going to get out of the handcuffs while I'm holding into you."
Because of the kicking off, they put on the blue lights and the siren to make the journey a lot quicker. It's the first time Sally has stayed out. Usually by this point, since being at Alder Unit, Sally's let Keri back out. Not this time.
When they finally got back, Sally was still struggling and the officers took her inside. It was about midnight. They put her in one of the small lounges next to the staff office and the police took off the handcuffs. Justin sat with her on one to one observation. She repeatedly tried to get out and was being verbally and physically aggressive. She completely trashed Keri's room trying to find something sharp to use against the staff. While she was doing this, Justin and Marley were watching from the doorway. Sally found two razor blades which she slipped into her pocket. Eventually she also found some scissors. She charged out of the room and down the stairs, intending to threaten the staff into opening a door to get out. Justin noticed the scissors in her hand and as they got to the bottom of the stairs they ended up having to restrain her to get the scissors off of her.
Justin put her back in the small lounge. It had now turned into a different situation. He said that he now had to think about the safety of her and also himself and Marley. They were so worried to the point that even when Sally went for a cigarette both members of staff had to stay out there to make sure she didn't try escaping. After a while of Justin and Sally being in the lounge, Sally was repeatedly kicking off.
"That's it," Sally said. "Time's up. Your neck or Keri's wrist?"
Sally started rolling up Keri's left sleeve and then put her hand in her pocket to get one of the razor blades.
"Give me an answer!" she shouted.
"I'm afraid I can't give you an answer," Justin said.
And with that, Sally took out her razor blade and put it across Keri's wrist.
"Now, open the fucking door," Sally shouted.
"Marley!" Justin shouted as he shot across to Sally to try and get the razor from Sally's hand. Marley restrained her with her other arm while Sally fought to keep hold of the razor. In the end she knew she wouldn't win.
"Just drop it on the floor for me will you?" Justin said. All three of them were now on the sofa with Sally still being restrained. Eventually she dropped it, knowing she had another. They let Sally go but Justin stayed sitting by the door to make sure Sally didn't leave the room. Sally was repeatedly lashing out unexpectedly, breaking things by throwing things across the room, punching the bookshelf until it nearly fell over, refusing to sit down and 'relax'.
"Bathroom," she said after another half an hour.
"You need to use the bathroom?" Justin said. "Right, Marley!"
A few seconds passed before Marley turned up in the doorway.
"Right, she wants to use the bathroom," Justin said. "With the dangerousness of the situation at the moment I'm quite fearful over everyone's safety so I'm thinking you go into the bathroom with her and I'll stand just outside."
"Fuck that! It's fucking pointless then. I'll stay here!" Sally said, losing her temper again and going into a full on rage. Marley left and Keri lost it with Justin again. She took another razor from Keri's coat pocket. Justin saw her take something out of her pocket but didn't see what it was, but he knew she had something dangerous.
"Marley! We're going to need you again!" Justin shouted.
Sally backed away from Justin as he approached her.
"Come on, give me what's in your hand," he said.
"Back the fuck off!" Sally shouted.
In the end she was restrained on the sofa again. By the time Justin managed to get Sally to drop the razor the damage was done. She'd already cut open one of Keri's fingers. No one realised this until Sally was kicking off with them and blood drops were starting to drip all over the floor.
After another twenty minutes Sally turned around to Justin and said, "Let me have a fucking cigarette and I will let Keri back out," Sally said. By this point it was well past 2am and Sally had been repeatedly restrained, had repeatedly tried to escape and had put the nursing staff and Keri in danger. She decided she'd try again when they weren't expecting it. True to her word, she let Keri back out who just burst into tears in front of Justin as she was still on one to one. She was in a lot of pain from where Sally had cut her fingers, the bruising around her wrists from the handcuffs, the aching in her shoulders from having to be restrained so much, especially by the police. Justin gave Keri a lot of medication (of which Sally had obviously point blank refused). He stayed with Keri while she had a cigarette just to make sure it was definitely Keri who was back and explain to Keri what had happened over the last five hours; and when that had been sorted, Keri got ready for bed, took her sleeping medication and sat in her room (after her and Justin had tidied it when Keri walked in and found her possessions all over the place!). Eventually she got to sleep but not until nearly 5am.
Today she didn't even wake up until 4pm, and she felt like she'd been hit by a truck. It's been a quiet day and she's been resting a lot. In my opinion I think Sally would benefit from seeing our psychotherapist. She was shouting at Justin last night about how Keri could never know how much worse the abuse really was compared to the memories Keri had. When she'd said this, Justin then realised why Sally was such a ball of rage and anger. He was very patient with her, considering the circumstances, even when she was demanding that he find out Keri's dad's address. She wants to break his neck! No wonder Keri's tired. Today has been about rest and recuperation. She hasn't left the ward as by the time she got up it was starting to get dark and she's only allowed leave during daylight hours. Plus, tesco shut at 4pm on a Sunday anyway!
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