At work today, they brought in a woman from a nursing home. She was refusing to eat. It turns out that her children had just put her in a nursing home and she did not want to be there so she was refusing to eat. I talked a bit to her. She said she drank some water to take her medication.
On the eval, they asked her if she wanted to die and she said "yes." This put her in that observation room I mentioned here before. They put a mental patient in a room with a big window so they can be seen well and not hurt themselves.
I felt so badly for this patient who came in as I was leaving. She wanted to talk but I did not have time to do so at that moment, before they moved her, (and I had to move her,) to the observation room.
She was very thin and one nurse, a man, made the statement that she did not look dehydrated yet she was thin as a rail. They were waiting for a psyche eval before they decided what to do with her.
What a sad, sad thing!
I am going to see what they decided to do. She should not go to the mental ward because she is lucid and knows what she is doing, but I fear they may put her there. I also fear they will feed her through that tube!
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