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Originally Posted by Miguel'smom
Is there any children's hospitals around you? or universities? How are they handling her at school? I would call the pediatrician and ask if there's anything she can do to help tell her that your daughter still isn't on meds and no one will see her. They'll sometimes give medication in an emergency. Be willing to spend the whole day driving if need be to get into ANYONE. Don't say you have a child say your daughters 14. 14 is usually the cut off age between adult and child psychiatrists. If the pediatrician can't do anything. Next stop is urgent care. If urgent care wont do anything back to the ER. If your calling the dr offices staff may just be saying no off handedly. If you do finally find an appointment it'll be 3+ months out though. How often does she see her therapist? I'm sorry this is going on.
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She sees her therapist at least weekly, and a peer counselor weekly. We were informed that her psychiatrist was not willing to within with her, basically... so after many hours of overnight searching and emailing, I found one who said wow I wish I could help, but she's too high acuity for me... I'd put her inpatient. But you don't have the ability to do that, and if you take her to the ER, they'll probably board her again and so nothing. Here is the name and number of someone I think can help you. She's really good. So I called and explained every detail and they said they would definitely help her, and they're sliding scale. They gave her their soonest available appointment.
She is in WAVA because she can't attend regular school. She's failing Avery's the board right now. It was interesting listening (eavesdropping, really) to her explain why to the GAL today. She described her symptoms in great detail - something she has never really done coherently and all at once today... usually, you have to pull the information out of her slowly in bits and pieces. Today it was in paragraphs, and she seemed to actually remember her manic phases somewhat, which is really unusual. I could hear her describing what it's like to live in her head... her symptoms are definitely worse than mine were at her age.
There is a children's hospital with a really good inpatient unit. It's an hour and a half drive. The next time she has a psych emergency - even if it's just not eating for two or three days because she's been asleep, we will suddenly find ourselves in the area. We will not be returning to the local ones.