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17 April 2008

Whoa. Please to have some whuffles? I'm the senior-most administrative employee at work today. →[More:]We're a small organization. At this moment, I am dealing with a patient that is acutely homicidal, who needs to be committed, either voluntarily or involuntarily. I have no experience in this. I am not a doctor. I am not a therapist. I am a health-freaking-educator. But it's OK. I'm calm, and supporting the very novice therapist whose client this is. We've had to figure out the procedure, call parents (because we're talking about a KID), call the sheriff, call the local teaching hospital for a psych consult, and then hang around and hope the parents take the patient over to be voluntarily committed. If we don't get a call in the next hour from the hospital, we'll be hanging around at work poised to swoop over to the sheriff's to get the client arrested.

Awesome day, hm?

post by: Stewriffic at: 16:15 | 21 comments

Yikes, Stewriffic, you sound surprisingly calm given the circumstances. Well done, you.

posted by Elsa 17 April | 16:18

I'm surprising myself at how calm I am, actually.

posted by Stewriffic 17 April | 16:25

Good luck, stew!

posted by Atom Eyes 17 April | 16:29

I wish you and everyone involved feelings of calmness and care.

*whuffles Stew*

posted by Specklet 17 April | 16:32

Hugs to all of you Stew.

posted by arse_hat 17 April | 16:43

Be safe, Stewriffic.

posted by essexjan 17 April | 16:43

OK, the kid is out of the building, presumably on the way to the hospital.

posted by Stewriffic 17 April | 16:46

Phew. Good for you all! And, presumably, it's good for the kid, too. Congratulations on weathering a tough situation.

posted by Elsa 17 April | 16:51

Lots of whuffles to you and the kid.

posted by theora55 17 April | 17:04

see, you did great!

posted by MonkeyButter 17 April | 17:13

Definitely whuffles are needed here. You handled this well; now that the crisis is over, time to freak out. And here's your whuffles...

WHUFFLE!

posted by lleachie 17 April | 17:16

Yay you! You sounded calm and in control. *whuffles*

posted by gaspode 17 April | 17:22

The kittens send licks, nuzzles, purrs, sleepy eye blinks, and a good hour of dozing on your lap, curled up in each others' tiny paws.

posted by By the Grace of God 17 April | 17:32

I am now at home with a beer. That was a seriously bizarre situation. The doctors that we did have there were unprepared to handle this as well, and didn't give much support at first to the therapist who had no idea what to do. I ended up calling our director of mental health at home to walk the therapist through it.

posted by Stewriffic 17 April | 17:39

Big otsukare-sama to you!

posted by gomichild 17 April | 18:09

Oh, and BTGOD, (now that I've had two beers, haven't had alcohol in like a month, and am a total lightweight), I have to admit I'm extremely allergic to cats. So I'll whuffle them back from afar. And I appreciate their licks, nuzzles, purrs, headbutts, etc. But I'll accept them with inhaler in hand and Allegra within reach.

posted by Stewriffic 17 April | 18:46

Just wanted to send a whuffle from afar, and congratulate you on your grace under those circumstances, wow, what a day at work!

posted by Sil 17 April | 18:52

Dang.

Years ago I was in my shrink's office when an earlier patient (a child-a large for her age ten year old who was living in a group home) decided to go batcrap flipping crazy. They had brought her back into the waiting area...she was having a manic crisis, I think and was saying things that would make a sailor blush. And this waa a CHILD. My doc calmly called the hospital to arrange the commitment, and the cops also came. It was so sad and so scary. But my doc acted so calm, it was if nothing was wrong at all. I was curled up on the couch quietly freaking OUT.

Occasionally I wonder about that child. So many of life's cards already stacked against her...she'd be about seventeen or so now, I think.

posted by bunnyfire 17 April | 19:06

bunnyfire, I'm relatively near you, too. Cameron Village.

posted by Stewriffic 17 April | 19:24

Holy crap. I used to be even closer...years and years and years ago I lived in Raleigh and was biking distance from Cameron Village.

My little story happened in Fayetteville.

posted by bunnyfire 17 April | 22:32

*clinks beer with Stewie*

Job well done!

posted by hadjiboy 17 April | 23:41

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