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I was wondering if anyone knows what rights does a person have once they have been committed.
Karen
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Dear Karen,
Hi. Thanks for your replay. I apologise it has been a few days since I have contacted you. I have spent a long weekend in hospital on a drip thanks to Vertigo and have been in bed almost constantly since then!
I am hoping to be up for a while today as it is Christmas after all. I have been up for a little while now wanting to answer some posts and to wish you all the best. My head is spinning and it is about time to rest again!
I am so sorry that you are not finding the help that you need right now! It certainly sounds like you are trying every avenue available to you.
Is it possible for you to be admitted into a hospital as a general patient and to just have the rest and care you need for a few days that way? Can you ask your Dr. if that could be arranged or if it would be beneficial.
I have also heard of people entering aged care facilities for "Respite" care, would that be an option? I really have no idea how it works but that could be another option.
Dear Karen, I do so hope you are able to find some peace and contentment this Christmas.
Here it is Christmas Day! I am wondering what you are doing and planning to do. Please do look after yourself and let people know how you are feeling if you are really desperately depressed. You have the numbers. I too have been given a list of emergency health numbers to ring if I need them and will do so if required.
Thanks for your support, help and advice as well.
I will let you know later how Mrs. Pavlova is getting on. My husband took the two young birds to a friend of his who was very excited to have them and so thrilled also that he was to have them as a gift and not need to pay for them! My husband said the guy has a very large aviary so the birds will be happy there!
Hang in there Karen, love and hugs from me, Mrs. Dools xxx
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Hi Karen,
Good aye. Just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you and hoping everything was okay. If it is not okay, then I am hoping life is not completely miserable and ghastly and there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
Here is a funny little story for you. My dear husband was complaining that the male canary, Rod Stewart, was making too much noise! I told him the canary was actually singing, and that is a quality most people desire in their male canaries! He wasn't at all sure why that would be the case! Ha. Ha.
Mrs. Pavlova is now sitting on another 5 eggs! Hopefully if these hatch she will sit on them and keep the little darlings war, and fed this time! other wide I might have to play at being a mother bird! Ha. Ha.
Cheers for now from Mrs. Dools
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Hi Karen,
Thinking of you again and hoping you are in a safe place.
Mrs. Pavlova and Rod Stewart are now the proud parents of two more baby canaries! Hopefully these ones will manage to survive. I think the last ones died in the very cold over night weather.
We had a terrible wind and thunderstorm here yesterday which blew down one of our trees. We will have to look at cleaning that up later today!. Thankfully we are a long way from the brushfires currently burning here in S.A. but one is surrounding the town my sister and family live in, so that is a bit concerning.
I do so hope you are okay, from Mrs. Dools
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