Spent the better part of the day...

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Registered: 05-02-2006
Spent the better part of the day...
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Tue, 12-26-2006 - 10:17pm

...in the ER:(


I had an appointment with tdoc at 1:30 today. I got in there and she hit me with "how about you and I going over to the behavioral health unit and getting some answers?" I tried to argue the fact by stating that I'd held up my end of the contract and had only had the one slip when i si'd last week. It didn't work. Anyway I got nowhere fast and we were heading out. I was about to tell her that I had to pick up dd 17 and run her home when we saw her in the waiting room. Tdoc was upset for some reason that I had to take dd home. Don't know if she thought I'd bail or what, but she followed me home and then to the er.


I registered with the triage nurse and told my story, then I had to go through it again with another nurse, a nurse practioner and a "witch" of a doctor. Each one wanted to admit me to the behavioral health unit. And each time I refused. The doctor got ticked off at me when I told her I didn't want to be admitted. That I had a contract with my tdoc and thus far I had honored it and had no intentions of violating it. She then called in a county mental health pdoc and I got to go through it all again. He fortunately did not see the legal criteria for involuntary admission and believed me when I said I would continue to honor my contract and a couple of other things he wanted me to do. He wants me to call my pdoc when she gets back in town on Thursday and make an appointment with her asap. He wants me to call the emergency services hotline if I get worse and my thoughts get worse. And I have to go see tdoc tomorrow. But at least I'll get my meds back tomorrow. So I guess I'm off house arrest.


I just get the feeling that everyone involved is tired of dealing with me and want to be rid of me. I can't keep up with my mother's opinion on the subject. One day she's all for me getting the help I need, the next day she's telling me that hospitalization and ect and meds are a bunch of crap. That depression can just be gotten over. And people wonder why I have the su ideations? I''m so ready to give up. If I didn't have a contract, I'd cancel my appointment with tdoc tomorrow and stop my meds and just suffer in silence. Anyway, thanks for letting me vent.


Traci

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Registered: 04-06-2005
Wed, 12-27-2006 - 4:46pm

I'm sorry you spent most of the day in the ER.


They are not trying to get rid of you, they are trying to help you and I think they are just at this point where they might feel the best thing for you is i/p.

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