May 10, 2013;

So my daughter was in the hospital for the "flu" dehydration, and the list goes on.  The nurses put a note on the door that people should be careful since the patient has a virus.  Okay, she wasn't on her medications for about a week, then she was put on new medications (antipsychotics) by a NEW psychiatrist (isn't the county lovely) who decides that he does not medicate for anxiety disorder, he doesn't believe in it, oh and yea she doesn't need her other meds, she'll go to sleep eventually.  She hadn't slept in a week.

It was almost like he got his phd in a cracker jack box.  I kinda think he did.  So he decides to rediagnose her, she's not schizophrenic, she's bipolar schizoaffective.  Okay, really?  So he leaves her on limictol but takes everything else away, no anxiety medicine and off she goes.  Mind you this is before the hospital stay.  So she's in the hospital, throwing up, diarehea, dizzy, skin crawling and now she's twitching.    I went next door to her medical doctor and I asked them seriously you guys can't figure out side effects?  You don't know side effects from drugs when you see them, give her back her correct medications, give her the anxiety medication and I guarantee she will have a miraculous recovery from her "flu".  So the doctor called the psychiatrist and his solution?? Ship her out 5150. Yea, I said it, ship her out 5150 because afterall he made her that way, he took her off the right medications so he should know.

Really.  The general medical doctor said, no, she's twitching and having side effects, she needs her regular antipsychotics you took her off of them cold turkey and she's having allergic reactions to the limictol. So he finally agreed and I'm sure it took brain surgery and repeating a few classes before he could make the right decision.

Behold, within a few hours her flu mysteriously disappeared.  Her throwing up ceased and what do you know, she stopped twitching.  Amazing!! She was released. 

Is it possible that some of the patients being shipped from our community 5150 are patients that are being incorrectly diagnosed and given wrong medications?  In my small community???? More than just a small possibility, more than likely. 

Why is it like this here, why is this community straight out of Alice n Wonderlands drugged up fantasy?  I have a theory, I don't really know how good a theory, but I have a theory.  Vast amounts of insecticide are poured into the valley by plane in the air, through ditches in the water, and on the ground.  We live in a bowl shaped valley, I personally think people have inhaled too deeply for too long. 

Or is it possible that our community is so remote that other citizens of our state refuse to come here and only those who cannot get employment in the real world come here.  So what about the rest of us?  Some families move here and the parents die and leave the children to fend for themselves.  Why am I here?  I'm trying to get out and go anywhere. 

You might be saying to yourselves what about your community you should affect change in it.  They don't want change, all you have to do is talk to them, they don't want it.  It's very sad that the community of citizens are left with substandard care and the community leaders really don't care.  It's bad enough that there are no jobs here and that more than half the population lives at or below poverty level.  It's a very small prison community that was once thriving and now has more empty buildings than any community should. 

I don't have the answers.