A friend of mine had cancer, and was being treated at a children’s hospital. I was in treatment with her in a residential home. She had mental illness as well as cancer. She ended up in the psychiatric hospital. But they sent her to a really bad hospital. I was sent to that hospital, and I was physically abused by the staff. They had an inpatient psychiatric unit at Children’s Memorial where she was being treated. Why didn’t they send her there? Especially since she was already getting treated there? The hospital she went to was very bad and the other patients were very aggressive, why would they risk something like that when she was so physically sick?

I was at Comer Children’s hospital and I needed to be in a psychiatric hospital, and they were talking about sending me to CM, but I ended up in the pediatric psych unit at Rush.

Has anyone had any expierence with CM (now Luries) psych unit? I needed to be in a psych unit at an actual hospital because I needed antibiotic shots, and I was familiar with Rush.

But why would they risk having my friend injured by sending her to a horrible hospital when there was literally a psych unit in the 6th best children’s hospital in the country? It makes no sense.

I feel like my friend should of gotten so much more then she did. She didn’t have any family support and the treatment center we were at was pretty bad. But you hear of kids with cancer who get so much support and so many other things and she didn’t get anything.

She ended up dying. She got very sick for like 1.5 weeks, and the treatment center didn’t do anything except make her stay in bed. But she ended up being airlifted to CM. She should of gone there soon after she got sick. I feel like she would have had a better chance of surviving if she had gone right when she got sick.

It makes me so upset that they didn’t do more for her.