It was one of the worst days of my life, Jorun. And I just felt like everything I had campaigned for and kept my dad safe and independent and free, and my dad was looking ill, you know. I'd seen him earlier in the morning, at 9 o'clock in the morning I went in and he was doubled up in pain, and he was clearly not ready to be moved anywhere. And obviously he had bone cancer everywhere so any move was just making him feel worse. So eventually they called me in and I saw, I was just at boiling, at like blowing up point. I could have just really punched somebody because this is four years. Four years of my father having had dementia, four years of standing up for him knowing that I had been the person that had kept him free. And then at a time when he was so ill they sectioned him. So I went in, and the psychiatrist said, “we've sectioned your father”. And I said, “but he's not well enough to be moved from here”, and he said, “oh well the consultant says he's medically fit to be moved from the ward”. And then I looked at the GP and I'm going, “what are you doing here?” Because I've, he had been part of the problem. So then the psychiatrist immediately starts defending the GP and is like, “oh don't speak to him like that”. Then the social worker says, “we couldn't get the GP that your father now sees in the practice, and also Dr, this doctor has been seeing your father for a couple of years and knows him well”. I was just so angry. At that moment, and ever since all communication with the social, my dad's psychiatrist had been nonexistent. |
