Sectioned in Hospital - Day 131 & 132

Written by Fox.

DAY 131 & 132 - 16th & 17th December, Monday & Tuesday

Oh joy, Keri's got the diarrhoea and vomiting bug. Unfortunately this isn't good as she's found out she can keep most of the symptoms away by just point blank starving herself. This is never a good thing. Keri rarely becomes physically ill but when she does she stops eating and it triggers off her eating disorder again and loses a lot of weight in a short space of time. The staff haven't bugged her about eating today as they know she's quite ill. She looks like a walking corpse and has barely enough energy to lift her feet up off the floor when she's walking.

She had a quick chat with Simon, the ward manager, after she'd gotten out of bed and he asked her to do a pros and cons list about staying in Alder Unit and that he'd sit and have a proper chat with her tomorrow. Keri was actually up before 10am this morning because she physically had to get out of bed and run to the bathroom to be sick. That's one way of getting her up in the morning!

The occupational therapist also came to see her and was talking about options about what Keri could do. She's coming back in the new year to talk a bit more about it.

Yesterday, Fiona turned up for Keri's psychotherapy appointment. She was trying to brainstorm ways in which she could get Sally to start engaging in therapy. It's clear that there's a lot of rage there that needs to be dealt with and it's not going to go away on it's own. The main problem highlighted would be that even if Sally did come out during an appointment then it would be an issue of getting her back in again instead of walking out the door. I don't know. Fiona wants to plan a meeting between a member from BIT and Keri's foster mum during one of Alder's handover sessions to talk about Keri's DID, understanding it and trying to come up with ideas on how to handle things.

Along with Keri's stomach bug, she started getting another niggling headache at about 8pm so ended up having some Lorazepam to see if it'll ease it off. Another Sally fiasco and I'm really not sure how much the unit can keep Keri here. They can't keep Keri on a locked ward forever. Or I suppose they can if they believe she can't get the treatment on an open ward. Knowing Sally she'll try sabotaging everything. This might be tricky.