The immediate downside to this change is that it is more difficult to visit him. The previous facility was .9 miles from our house and it took about 5 minutes to drive there. The new place is about 15 miles and it takes a good 40 minutes to drive there. The visiting hours are also radically different. At the former facility visiting was from 5:30 pm until 7:00 pm every day. The new place restricts visitors to 45 minutes on weekdays. Saturday and Sunday visitors are allowed from 2pm until 4:30pm. It is obvious that they want visitors just on the weekends, when the pace is slower.
We went to visit Son Sneed today and it was kind of a shock. He had warned us that unlike the homey facility he had been at, this place is more like the hospital in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. After having been there, I would have to agree with him on that.
The new hospital handles a wider range of illnesses than the former one did. Son Sneed is afraid for his safety because some of the patients are violent. He expressed his concern for his welfare and was told not to worry because the patients mostly attack the staff, not other patients. He isn't reassured much.
Son Sneed has been told by the doctors that after he gets for or five Electro Convulsive Therapy treatments, he will be allowed to go home and finish the course of treatment as an outpatient. That will be very nice.
We also had some rain today. This is the beginning of our summer rainy season. Unlike most places where it is likely to rain most any day, the rain here in the desert is mostly confined to July into September and in late December though February. Outside of those time frames, there is little likelihood for rain. Given that we only get 12 inches of rain annually on average, any rain is welcome.
This little graph shows how our meager rainfall is distributed.
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4 comments:
That would be VERY scary to be in a place like the one mentioned. Hopefully the treatments will work, and Son Sneed will have an easier time living wherever the next stop is. Sounds like your place.
Oh boy...
that sound very difficult...
Yes, rain would be good..
we need it here! and in Beaver!
45 minutes on weekdays seems restrictive.
I hope the ECT helps son Sneed the way it did Dick Cavett. I recall an interview where he talked about himself before and after therapy, and the before was very grim.
" ECT was miraculous. My wife was dubious, but when she came into my room afterward, I sat up and said, 'Look who's back among the living.' It was like a magic wand." ~ Dick Cavett
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