Another Tuesday. Another Ward Round.

I've more or less just got back from visiting my grandmother in hospital. As you would expect from someone who has been subjected to torture for over five years she is in a very fragile psychological state alternating between mild catatonia and agitation. Unfortunately I was unable to speak to a doctor so I do not know if a urine test has been preformed. However after a quick look of my grandmother's drug chart nothing immediately leapt out to suggest she is being treated for a urinary infection.

However the chart does indicate that she is being treated with Codeine - a mild opiate analgesic, Haloperidol - a heavy duty anti-psychotic and Lorazepram and Diazepam - both benzodiazepine sedatives. My grandmother has also been provided with a specialist chair to avoid having her lie in bed all day and has been placed under a specialist close observation regime by the nursing staff. All this suggests that she is being treated as a psychiatric patient without being officially classed as a psychiatric patient.

This is being clearly being done in an attempt to avoid incriminating the local health authority for the way they've been mistreating my grandmother up to now. Unfortunately this deceit is undermining my grandmother's care by denying her access to the specialised care she requires. For example there are more appropriate anti-psychotics then Haloperidol and no-one would prescribe Codeine or benzodiazepine sedatives to a patient who is essentially being treated for opioid addiction.


Edited at 20:25 on 30/8/11: It's Tuesday night and I'm back from the pub. The reason I'm back late is because I left late. This is because there has been exciting news from the hospital. A urine test has been performed and ruled out a urine infection. So my grandmother's been sent for a chest X-ray and other tests to investigate a possible chest infection which she most certainly didn't have when she went into hospital. So the odds of death by MRSA or other hospital acquired infection have been shortened to 5/2.