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Feb 03, 2016, 09:44 PM
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Intake will call me in the morning to get information and then I can leave. The way it usually works there is the first day you see just a resident and no big changes are made. So Friday I should see my real doctor and start the hard part. If it can possibly be worse than waiting has been.
Finally! (Now I just have to keep up my hope that I'll get one of the private rooms. Won't happen but I can hope.  I just can't imagine being polite to a roommate right now but of course I will be.I have been so distracted that a few hours ago I put laundry in, set the machine settings, put soap in, didn't close the soap drawer or press start and walked off.
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Feb 03, 2016, 09:50 PM
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Feb 03, 2016, 10:10 PM
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So glad the wait is over. I hope you get a private room too...but you know how it goes, those that are there claim the rooms as soon as the person in them is leaving. Back in the twin cities they had a unit like that for those of us with dissociative disorders, mostly private rooms with a few doubles. The staff were better trained and not so, us vs them, but more part of the solution. All the rooms had their own phones and recliners. The only minus was that it was too small a unit to have separate rooms for therapy so all groups were in the dinning common area which meant less art therapy. But hey so much better than a regular unit. I'm glad for you. I'm not sure you'll be up to groups so I wish you the best luck in getting that private room.
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Feb 03, 2016, 10:29 PM
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I just got into my room at the hospital bout an hr ago. Everybody really nice so far. Sux theres not a tv! Oh well I brought my tablet to play on. I really hope u get a bed in mornin I do feel a sense of relief now that im here. My blood pressure was 104/100 which is pretty high so i have a lot of anxiety. Hope all is well! |
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Feb 03, 2016, 10:29 PM
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They usually save the private rooms for people there for longer term problems (ECT) or the one time I was there a psychiatrist with bipolar from far away had come to stay while going off all meds and he was in one. He didn't interact much; now I wish I knew more of what he went through. So I have a chance at one probably if there is one free but it's hard to tell.
My unit is the same; groups are in the dining room and well, so is everything. TV, computer, lounge area is half the room and the other half is tables for eating and groups. It's small but it works. There's a max of 10 at a time. 8 doubles, 2 singles. We don't get enough art therapy either. My first time they were under a huge grant and we had it daily, a few days twice a day but now it is much less often. The OT that runs most groups does some art therapy-ish things but mostly art therapy is just what you get out of messing with the craft things that are around or asking the nurse to let you into the cabinet to get a project. When I was in with severe akathesia I had one day with a 1:1 aide who led us raid the art closet and did crafts with me/us all day. It was a nice part of that stay which mostly was extreme agitation (didn't respond to the first meds they tried or treatment was delayed? I think the dr was off and then it was weekend and a 3 day one so I was there several days before much was done, with my MAOI discouraging anyone from wanting to start something before I saw my own dr) and pacing many miles.
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Feb 03, 2016, 10:32 PM
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Not sure how long. I'm guessing a couple of weeks but I'm not sure how much of that comes from what my pdoc said and what I'm guessing. I think she said 10 days to 2 weeks but that was before I was going off Seroquel the way I am. I think that it will take seeing my reaction to know how long that will be. I've always been kept to the long end of the range she gives me; I tend to do worse in the hospital than she expects me to. I guess we'll see.
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Feb 03, 2016, 11:32 PM
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Great, hope you get relief & the med change goes as smoothly as possible! sending lots of good vibes
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Feb 04, 2016, 01:21 AM
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Yay!!
  
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