Monday, December 8, 2008

saddest case ever

this is a couple months old now. I cut and pasted from when I shared with some friends from the mommy-board I belong to:
So I evaluated a lady in the ER last night, put her on a mental health hold and hospitalized her. Here is her story: 22 years ago she was home alone with her 6 year old daughter. Some men broke into her house, raped her in front of her daughter. Then proceeded to rape her daughter. They then shot the daughter in the head, killing her. then they shot her in the head, leaving her to die. she didn't. the men left. she took her dead daughter and barracaded (sp?) themselves in the bedroom until police could arrive. she's obviously been extremely messed up since. she's been hospitalized "at least 30 times" and honestly, I don't know how she hasn't killed herself already. she has a traumatic brain injury, is blind in one eye, and suffered a stroke, all from the gunshot wound. she also recently had a brain tumor removed, has seizures and now has a terminal kidney disease for which she needs a transplant. the same kidney disease killed her sister and mother. she also has schizophrenia. so, she took herself off all of her meds a couple months ago because she thought they were making her fat. in the past couple days she has been hearing "these men" (the ones mentioned above) in her house, she's been waking up with her panties down and she just knows that they've raped her again, and she's been basically reliving the whole experience. oh, the voices have also been telling her to just kill herself (and her niece whom is her caretaker, which is a whole nother story). the part that almost had me in tears was when she was telling me how her "little girl" visits her often, telling her not to listen to the men, that it's not time to come to heaven to be with her yet, and that she needs to remain strong and keep fighting. so, anyway, she called Medicaid yesterday telling them that the men were in her house. she was watching her 3 year old nephew (the niece leaves her kids with this woman knowing that she can't care for kids and knowing that this woman has stabbed someone in the eye before and lit them on fire because they didn't believe that these men were after her) and she was trying to protect him from the men so she barracaded herself in her bedroom with the men just like she did with her daughter so many years before. she told them that she had a knife and that she was going to kill her niece when she got home. eventually the cops came and took her to the hospital. (this was getting way too long so i kindof cut it as short as possible). when I get to work I also have to call social services because the niece is abusing her kids-knocked the wind out of the 3 year old, hits them in the face with shoes leaving marks. she also doesn't take care of my client-steals her meds, lets the kids steal her belongings, doesn't take her to any of her appointments. sounds like an evil woman. but, i also have to call her (the niece) and tell her that my client is having thoughts of killing her. I've never had to make a call like that before. okay, enough. I'll hush. thanks for reading.

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