Written by Fox.
DAY 15 - 22nd August, Thursday
Keri's had a lot of visits from the medical doctors and from the physiotherapist today. She's been given exercises to do because of her joint problems and the doctor thinks Keri may have rheumatoid arthritis so will be doing tests at some stage to see what comes back from that. Everyone clearly knows her joint problems have been caused by the years of her eating disorder but she's in denial about that and just tries blaming it on genetics? I don't think that's logical.
One of the good things about her being in a psych unit is that there are doctors around all week. She's been meaning to go to the doctors for ages about things but never got around to it, like her joint problems for instance. It's been told to her multiple times by dieticians etc that because of the length of time she's not been eating properly she could end up with osteoporosis or arthritis, but she never listened.
She's also been prescribed a laxative now as well to take a couple of times every day (again, another long-term side effect of her ED is chronic constipation). The doc said she'd prescribe it in oral form first and if things didn't improve they'd have to do something the other end. Haha! Rather her than me! If oral treatment doesn't work I'm definitely going to run for the hills so I don't have to see anything going on down there!
Vex has really annoyed Keri. She's been wearing a long sleeved top today and got hot so had to roll up the sleeves. The weather has been boiling. She was out on the ward getting ready to go out with him to Tesco. He was sat at the nurses' station with another nurse and suddenly said, "Why have you got your sleeves rolled up, Keri? Do you like showing off your scars?" WHAT!? This has even annoyed me, let alone how it's bothered Keri. It's absolutely boiling weather and now she's too scared to even roll up her sleeves anymore. She's already ashamed of herself, why say that to make her feel even worse about herself? You'd think these nurses would think before they spoke. Keri doesn't wander around showing off her scars with pride, she sees them as horrific and disfiguring, not a trophy to be shown off. Stupid fucking nurse. -angry face!-
Keri's been quite calm, besides scratching and pacing and pulling out her hair. In the circumstances though, that is calm! She hasn't needed any PRN Lorazepam so that's got to be a good thing. Although once again she's combined her night time medication with a joint. This better not become a habit! We'll find out if that's the case once she runs out. Hopefully that'll be the end of it and Clarissa won't get her more. Keri doesn't normally do drugs but if she's offered them she'll do anything for a temporary break from reality. Well, she's already out of touch with reality so let me rephrase that! She'll do anything to get a temporary break from HER reality right now, she finds it too painful.
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