Almost Completely Resistable Opportunity

[lydy]

It seems that there ought to be more to say when given such an opportunity as I to directly compare three days in a locked psych ward to severe food poisoning. My observations, so far, however, have been limited to:

1. In a psych ward, they lock your bathroom, when you have food poisoning, the door is always open.

2. Food poisoning is physically more painful.

3. No matter how betrayed you may feel by the flesh, a psychiatrist with the power of bureacracy behind him is worse.

Yes, Virginia, Catch-22 is real.



Very Quick Translation

I had a total decompensation splork disaster at my psychiatrist's office on Tuesday which resulted in Marissa kindly driving me to the ER at Fairview Riverside to be admitted to the psych ward. Things were much better after a day off Topomax. (Scary drug, do not take unless absolutely necessary.) I should have been released on Thursday, but they refused to release me until Friday, even though they had to play fast and loose with the paperwork and then eventually place me on a 72 hour hold. More on that adventure later.

The meal I had around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday started its emergency exit on Sunday. It is currently 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, and I had lunch today, a meal which I still regret although there have not yet been any dire consequences.

The only good thing I have to say about all of this was that I was well during the pool party and had a lovely time.

And that, as we say, is the news from Lydy Woebegone.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have a thing for you from timprov, which I will deliver tomorrow. It is not a food item. It will not make you take the strings out of your hoodies. He felt (and I agree) that these things would be an improvement.

Feel better soon so we can buy you hats to eat. Also for its own sake. But, really: hats.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. Hats.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Not that we will require you to eat the hats if you want something else, of course....

[redbird]

May you continue to recover quickly.

[raphaela.livejournal.com]

I have had food poisoning. Sympathies.
Hope you're feeling better soon.

Here's hoping you recover soon

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I'm often amazed by how much bad can be done by people trying to do good.

I hope the food poisoning passes quickly, too.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

OMG, what a week! You poor poor thing. :-(

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Wishing you well on all physical, emotional, and other fronts ...

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Yikes. I'm feeling a little queasy just thinking about this. (Having just disrupted my food and sleep schedule like nobody's business, I am going to go take my own Topamax. On the theory that taking it is unlikely to be worse than unplanned withdrawal from it.) Good luck with your quick recovery from both types of unpleasantness.

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Wiser words have never been spoken.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Gleep.

I hope you are soon entirely restored in all your parts.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Holy ****! Glad you're better.

Yes

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I am firmly convinced that you (yes, you, Lydy, although here on LJ there are a lot of "generic" yous, too) know what's best for you far better than 99.9% of M.D.s. I am very glad that you got out okay and weren't subjected to, just for instance, some unwanted shock treatments. If at some point there is anything I can do, please let me know. And perhaps you and mrissa will eventually give us the whole story about the hats. (Yeah, and I had a good time at the pool party too -- and good to see you.)

Nate

[readwrite.livejournal.com]

I hope you are feeling better.

Winter sucks.

[joel-rosenberg.livejournal.com]

Yiye! Sorry to hear about all this (by which I really mean that I'm sorry that it happened) -- if there's anything possibly useful I can do, give a call.

[jiawen]

I hope things have calmed down. Take care.

[fgherman.livejournal.com]

I hope you are feeling better - both physically and emotionally - asap. Do not hesitate to ask for any help from me.

Like The Who and Pete Townshend DVDs I wanted to loan you.

Felicia