DAY 157 - 11th January, Saturday
Keri didn't even get out of bed until nearly 4pm. Unfortunately her stomach wasn't good and she was spending most of her time throwing up in her toilet. She felt better by the evening but she had to get some fluids inside her due to all the vomiting.
When she finally went downstairs she found out from the staff that the manager (one higher up than the manager of Alder Unit) had been in touch. The police don't want yet another missing person report and to prevent this happening, Keri has to be kept on one to one observation whenever she's downstairs. This may be invading Keri's privacy but the choice is partly being taken out of the staff's hands at the moment. Sally's quite annoyed with the obs level. It won't necessarily stop her disappearing but it makes it slightly less likely. According to staff, if Keri left the unit (technically Sally would've left) then they'd set of their alarms and arrange for a PMVA team to take Sally to one of the seclusion units. For those that don't know, PMVA means the Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression. Hopefully it doesn't get to that point but Sally might test her luck on that one. I feel so sorry for Keri if that happened. She would find herself in a strange secluded room, locked in, not knowing how or why she was there. It would be made worse if the nurses dealing with her were completely DID ignorant!
All her leave has been cancelled too. No unescorted leave, not even any escorted leave with staff. She's confined to the unit. Looks like their 'positive risk taking' idea doesn't seem to be being used at the moment!
Keri had a DVD evening with the staff today. They finished watching Yes Man and then watched the first Hangover movie. It was just her and the three staff. The other patients all seem to have disappeared. They're probably tired from their trip that they had to Weymouth yesterday. It's been very quiet. Although there's only 6 patients here at the moment; 4 on leave, 2 technically discharged.
With a headache starting up, it's probably good that her obs level is the way it is. It's now after 1am and I wouldn't usually write so late but I like doing my blog posts. It's weird as there's 3 members of staff working tonight. That hasn't happened since Keri arrived! Must be another management thing. Even when Keri's been brought back by police, even if still dissociated as Sally, there was still only ever two staff working. It's odd. Nothing has really been explained very well but as long as the weekend goes by without any incident, maybe we'll find out what's happening when they have another review meeting about Keri on Monday; whether we are invited to that meeting or not is still unclear.
Well, better let Keri back out. She's keeping herself well distracted but her headache keeps reminding her of things that could potentially happen and she's worrying about it. So far she hasn't told the staff. I hope she does by the time she goes to bed. There's some things that are fine being kept secret but when a trigger warning like her headaches start up then she needs to tell people about it.
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