Still in secondary care...

When the psychiatric team arrived I stayed where I was, and used the time to phone up about the MRI scan...

The company a person buys a scan from had tried to contact Service User.
...Service User doesn't answer his phone.
The phone was found
Eventually
.. pushed down inside Service User's duvet cover.

I gave the MRI company my phone number.
Yesterday I left my phone in the kitchen with instructions...
And went to college.

On retruen
Service User told me a consultant had phoned him, and that a scan will be arranged.
So, that's good.

Service User is deep in recriminations this morning
Of course...
So I listen a while and then say, you will be able to make better decisions after you have had the scan.
It feels better to be able to say this instead of 'you cannot know' or 'you need to ask a doctor'.

I prefer to be able to say with truth and certainty - look, your experience is something and we have found the best way we can, to check out the possibilities'

I don't expect it to stop the monologue about brain degeneration.
But I see it as a rational way to proceed with the dialogue.

Meanwhile the doctor who had threatened sectioning last week was treated to Service User offering to take a tablet in front of him - and he took the tablet. The outcome is, Service User can now go to 'out patients' instead of having the team come here.

This is still 'secondary care', but I don't honestly get what that really means.
GP is primary care...

Regards the SSRI..
Yesterday was probably the last one he will take.

That scares me because a part of me has absorbed the sales talk, a part of me is a true believer...only a part.

Most of me is not convinced.

Well, mindfulness lady is here now.
Service User is doing a great job in not talking about dying...

So, our prime objective - to let the psychiatric team go to people who appreciate their Stirling efforts, and to stop visiting us - is proceeding...I think.

Leaving the real objective, to salvage the bits of an old life, and to weave them into a new one, to be managed as best we can..