The Yanks are not Happy.

Today (19/7/11) my grandmother has been in a confused and aggressive mood. After discovering that shouting and banging her walking stick would not get a response she tried smashing up the car. Once challenged she became violent biting me a couple of times amongst other things. This forced my father and I to restrain her in a wheelchair with with a lap belt. She then smashed one of her windows with a brick. At this point my father finally relented and called the doctor. The doctor immediately advised him to call an ambulance.

When the ambulance arrived at around 14:15 the crew was presented with a woman with altered mental status who'd been refusing food and water for several days, smashed up her own and other peoples property, used violence against others, threatened to cut herself with broken glass and was refusing medical treatment. So they should have immediately detained her under the mental health act as she posed a threat to herself and others. However the tried to avoid doing this for the best part of an hour before finally contacting the police who detained my grandmother under the mental health act and transported her to the local hospital where the "section" will have to be confirmed by a psychiatrist.

They're going to try very hard to avoid doing that because once she's been detained under the mental health act the local health authority will be unable to release her until they've diagnosed and treated her drug problem and they will have to pay for her care while they're making that decision.

Edited to add @ 17:29 on19/7/11;

"What were they expecting a tear stained letter?"

Sorry for forgetting at the time but it's been a busy do so I've not been at my best. While I'll cover it in more detail when I get time if you've seen the protester who attacked Rupert Murdoch causing the select committee hearing to be suspended he's an obvious Labourite protester acting to give all parties time to read this blog and keep up with the script.