She doesn't handle stress at all and goes into melt down, she's had a few episodes in the past 20 years where she's been sectioned due to severe nervous breakdowns but it's been controlled with lots of support and medication that she takes on a daily basis, every time she's been in hospital they screw up the medication and she goes a bit wappy so they are warned to look through her notes. She was taken into hospital 2 weeks ago with a burst cyst on her kidney. She was fine for a few days then her mental health started to slip. I called the ward and spoke to the nurse, asing her to look through her notes, she said she didn't have time but would do it. My mum began to really slip, she was calling me all the time, telling me she wanted to go home, she was really agitated and upset, I spoke to the nurse again, again she said she'd look through her notes and she said my mum was being given diazepam to calm her down.
My mum continued to deteriorate, by Saturday she was using her walking stick as a 'magic wand', poking the patients and the staff because she was convinced they would die if she didn't. They discharged her on Monday!! She's at home but she's in a real mess, hallucinating, panicking, she's really unwell. The mental health team have been going in to see her daily but they are just pissing about with her medication, my family can't cope so they are having her sectioned today.
It has also come to light that the staff in the hospital have left her medication in a tup a ware box at the side of her bed so she's probably been medicating herself/not at all. They have told us that she's been given diazepam at night to help her sleep, however a nurse working on nights has said she's not been given anything. I am so angry, all of this could have been avoided if they had read through her notes and not left her to medicate herself.
I'm just venting really, this smacks of clinical negligence to me. Farking bastards!