So sorry you are going through that, Gwyn. It brings back some tough memories. Also had a pretty insensitive comment at the time from the landlord, not wanting a MH crisis to disturb the other tenants...so not shocked by that manager attitude, but still disappointed.Thank you all for your kind wishes but it hasn't been an easy day...
Told by my daughter, at 8am, to get to the hotel where my wife was staying to make sure she didn't leave. I checked with reception if she had checked out, she had not. I waited inconspicuously in the cold ( so that I would not alarm her if she did leave) watching the main entrace to see if she left. She did not. This was my daughters idea. More James Bond than anything else.
Went into the hotel again at 10:30am, frozen, only to be met by a very angry hotel manager. Angry? Because my wife had not vacated her room and it was not right to have someone with mental health problems in his hotel. What? And she had upset the guests by wandering around outside the hotel all night praying. Just what I needed to hear.
At least I knew she was there and then suddenly she was behind me. Totally disconnected from me. Not happy to see me. Not good.
Then the mental health crisis team arrived and interviewed her for a while before my wife got agitated.
This is where it gets more interesting
My wife left the hotel and disappeared! The crisis team rang the police to get a section 136. The police at that point seemed unable to help. So my vulnerable wife was offered no protection. Hmm
However I was instructed (by my daughter) to report her as a missing person, so I did.
A while later a nice police lady drove up to my house and therein ensured an hour long interview where she asked for a recent photo of her and immediately issued it out to all officers to find her. And find her they did. They also got a section 136 in place for my wife. A section 136 seems to be a means of detaining someone to a safe place.
Meanwhile the mental health crisis team had been working at things and had come up with a bed in a secure hospital for my wife, however, it was not clear when exactly she would be admitted or where it is.
So we have a hospital bed. We have treatment being sorted out. We have a very bruised husband!!!
All good news?
Hmmm...she's on the window ledge. I tested her with some butter and although she looks like it wouldn't melt in her mouth it was quickly dripping down her chin 😱 Sorry, I'll pop her back in the freezer... 😱Morning all, 4.3 here. Yesterday was bizarre, having shot up to double figures before I got out of bed, I spent the day adding generous correction doses to my boluses, even a stint of gardening didn’t drop me, hovered in the 8s and 9s all day, then overnight I dropped suddenly in the early hours, and I’ve been scraping along the top of the red. @Northerner , could you check the Diabetes Fairy is still imprisoned?
I’m meeting a friend for a walk and a coffee in a NT property half way between her house and mine, so naturally the forecast is for showers. We may end up doing more coffeeing than walking.