So after yesterday’s Pdoc appointment and firing my psych I had an extreme stress response.
I felt high for a little while and was slurring my words. I couldn’t walk straight. Then I got really dizzy and couldn’t walk. All my obs were fine and no one could work out what was happening. I felt so scared and so sick. One nurse thought it could be vertigo. Two nurses had to help me back to my room. They undressed me and put me to bed. One of them stayed with me until I went to sleep.
Today I was very spacey, vague and unsteady on my feet. I went to first group and the facilitator worked with me to keep me focused. I was walking to the meditation group and the head nurse on shift saw me stumbling. He took me back to my room and sent another nurse in. I had my obs done again.
The doctor came in to see me and gave me anti-nausea medication as it would help with the dizziness. I slept until my facilitator came in to check on me. Her background is nursing focusing on MH. She thought it was a stress response after she found out about my day.
I finally got up and had lunch. Then as I was headed back to the group room for second group, the head psychologist saw me. She asked me what was wrong. I told her all that had happened. She said it definitely was a stress response. She told me I could go back to bed but I said I’d give group ago.
She walked me to the group room to make sure I was ok. She asked what I was doing about a new psych and I told her my Pdoc had a recommendation and I was going to call her tomorrow and see what her waitlist was. This psych suggested on here at the hospital that works with outpatients. It just happens to be my favourite facilitator in this course. She was going to call her and check if she will take me.
I feel a sense of relief that I have a caring, trauma inform psych that I actually know. I have already shared some stuff with her while I’ve been in here.
I currently feel really tired and still a little unsteady on my feet. Plus a really bad headache.
One of the nurses that helped me last night has already checked on me and said I look a lot better but she can see I’m still unsteady.