“It's been another crazy day, as you've probably gathered. I got permission from a certain person ot give more details about some of the stuff that's gone on concerning this other person.
So what's beein going on is that there's a person here who's bound to a wheelchair for various reasons and she's been blatantly mishandled by the staff many times. Saturday they threw her wheelchair across the hall like it was nothing, like a toy, with her in it. And that was the beginning, well maybe not the beginning but one of the earlier things. Like later on...on Saturday they had her near the quiet room because she was complaining. They were trying to put her in the quiet room and she fell on the floor, she got bruises, and they wouldn't help her up. Literally, they just left her on the floor. I went up to help her and they told me to go away, that I was interfering with her treatment. I just said "fuck you" and went up and I helped her back onto her chair, because I'm not going to leave her on the floor because she fell off her wheelchair. I'm sorry but that's where they left her. And I helped her back off the floor and I sat in there with her.
After Saturday night they put her on open areas and she was required to be...they made her sit in the hall Sunday....all day Sunday in this sort of lounge chair that was really hurting her back because she's got severe back problems, and she couldn't sit in her wheelchair 24/7, so she's got to sit in her recliner. Better to be in the bed, but at least this reclining seat is a little more comfortable, even if it's not an ideal thing for her to sit on. But while she was in her reclining seat, they decided they didn't want the wheelchair sitting next to her in the hallway, because somehow it was a danger because maybe a patient might throw it or something. I don't know cuz the patient would obviously not throw any of the other thousand chairs around the hall. But they took her wheelchair away and locked it up. I mean literally locked her wheelchair away from her, and they wouldn't let us move that chair around. I mean, we did a little, but they would yell at us for it.
So, after that, we... (sorry, there's someone right here, I got to take a pause). Ok, they left. I don't want to...I have to be cautious who I say things in front of, because there are people on my case still. She was stuck in that chair, we sat next to her. They stole her wheelchair for two hours last night. And we're all...like me and another person...are telling them it's not right what they're doing to her. And they made her sleep in the hall all night in that chair. That was not really good for her back. I mean, it's better than her wheelchair, but she needs to be in a bed.
And today, not only they first, they took the lounge chair away from her, first off. And they brought her into a meeting in the wheelchair, and while she was in there, they took the lounge chair and locked it up, because after the two hours, they gave the wheelchair back last night. So she wouldn't have the lounge chair cuz now they decided that wouldn't be in the hallway. So when she came back out, she needed to get out of the wheelchair, so she ended up just lying on the floor with a pillow. And just was very upset about this. And I was, and another person was too, and a couple other people actually, are all standing around.
So I found another lounge chair that was used for the guard to sit in the quiet room with, and I brought it to her, and we helped her into it. And I sat in the wheelchair, and they brought her in the wheelchair into another meeting. They were first saying that they were going to have to take that lounge chair away, too.
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I'm home!! Oh, how excited I am to be home!! I'm so very very happy to be out of that place.
On the way home purpleglitter and I went to the K-Mart in Newburyport, and got much needed new pillows. We made another stop in Saugus to go to the Salvation Army. I picked up several exciting new outfits.
I probably have digested more calories since I left Anna Jaques than the entire time I was there! My eating problems got so out of control in there. Most days, I purged 5 or 6 times. It'll be a hard task over the next few days to try to get my eating problems back where they were before I went in. Then, maybe, I can consider progress.
I'm going to make a series of posts about my stay at Anna Jaques. There's too much for just one post, so I'm going to make a post for each day, starting with Wednesday.
My neck and shoulder are hurting again. The knot in the pillow, though it seemed a likely problem, was not the problem. I disarmed and removed the suspicious pillow last week. I don't know what's causing my neck and shoulder to hurt. It could be the activities of an alter. More probably, it's what Lake suspects: the position of my monitor. I have to turn my head slightly to look at my monitor while I type. I will try moving the monitor and see if that helps my neck and shoulder.
I figured out how we injured our shoulder and neck last week. Only because we did it again, only to a much lesser degree. We slept on the knot holding together one of Lake's makeshift pillows. It hurt us less this time because we were only asleep for about 2½ hours rather than all night. I removed the offending pillow from the bed.