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Polly and my hubby went to the doctor’s this afternoon. And for the first time the doctor listened. This was the doctor from the practice and not the doctor she sees for her methadone prescription. When she went in, she sat down and told him straight that she felt that the doctor that deals with her meth was treating her as a joke.
She went last Friday for her meth and happened to mention that she was being sent to a psychiatrist. The drug doctor just looked at her and then passed a comment to the drug worker in the room. They made her feel as if she was daft. They weren’t too pleased and showed in their faces how they felt.
Anyway, when Polly went to see this other doctor on her panel, she just told him what was going on and how she had been treated. The whole lot came out. Anyway, he has now put her on sickness benefit so she can concentrate on her health.
She will only go to those idiots for her meth, as they are the doctors that deal with the drug clinic, but for anything else she will go to the man she spoke to today. He has told her to just come to him for anything else and he will take care of her. She came out of his office on a high. I am soooo pleased that for the first time someone has listened to her.
Once she goes to the psychiatrist and she gets a diagnosis, the next time she goes to the drug clinic I will be going with her. As I want to know why all they could do was laugh at her and treat her as a joke especially when she has been telling them how she has been feeling for over a year, and how its been affecting her.
No one does that to my daughter. I am so proud of her and so is my hubby. We tell her exactly how we feel about her and the pride we have in her and that we love her. We give plenty of cuddles and it’s great. Gosh I even tuck her into bed when she is with us at the weekends. She might be turning thirty-three years old, but she is my wee girl….
Hope you are all well
love
x
At last indeed. It must have been immensely stressful for all of you.
I just don’t get how practitioners can be like this. This is not to say that the majority aren’t great but it is a fact that many of us have had at least one very negative experience.
Good on ya!!!
You challenge the system, exactly what is needed.
Well done and thank you, Linda.
You have as we all do a right to a duty of care, go get your rights, we all need challenging even the so called professionals, glad Polly has found an empathic professional.
How wonderfully splendid for you all, I’m so pleased for you!
Don’t the sods realise that we owe even more of a duty of care to the vulnerable, or is she regarded by these fools as just another sad little druggie? The latter view is one I have encountered far too often.
As I’ve remarked elsewhere, pressure has to be applied from the bottom up, as well as top down, if we are to get the services that we as a society need.
You go, girl.
Hi Linda
Well done to you for sticking up for the rights of your Daughter.
I have been a Substance Misuse Worker for 8 years now and it amazes me why some people are in this job, like the people you described at your Daughters treatment centre. As already said though by Michaela, I have worked with lots of great people who really care about the person who is on their journey of recovery.
I currently work with a team who go the extra mile to encourage and help people who want to make real positive changes in their lives.
Someone who gets caught up in the cycle of drug or alcohol use is still a person with feelings and fears and should not be judged or discriminated against by the services who are supposed to be there to help.
Please ask Polly to remember this little saying.
“You can always be what you could have been”
Take care and wish Polly all the luck in the world.
JIm
