Grandmother Update.

After preforming pretty much every test imaginable including an MRI the doctors ran out of reasons for keeping my grandmother in the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU). So yesterday (21/7/11) she was moved to one of the wards where she is under the care of a Dr Tan with an n. Last night she was so disruptive she had to be moved to a private room so no-one's even considering discharge until Monday (25/7/11). Between now and then they're going to preform another MRI and possibly remove her from the buprenorphine patch to do a rapid detox.

Crucially though they are flatly refusing to order a psych consult and are instead trying to keep things informal. This is being done in a deluded belief that they can somehow escape liability over the whole attempted murder/perverting the course of justice thing. I can only assume that this confidence comes from the idea that having my grandmother and father in such close contact with medical professionals will help them with their research. It won't because my grandmother and father have been in close contact with medical professionals for much of the last 5 years including a stay on that very same ward so there's nothing to be seen that hasn't been seen a hundred times before.

Edited to add @16:25 on 22/7/11: While I was at the hospital a very large truck style bomb exploded in Oslo, Norway's capital blowing out windows across a wide area and killing at least two. As reports are only just emerging it is far too soon to speculate. However as the scene seems reminiscent of the IRA's 1993 bombing of Bishopsgate in London an I've been out buying glass to repair the windows that were smashed during my grandmother's little explosion on Tuesday I would say that Islamic terrorism is about third on my list of suspects but that might change over time.