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I got walking for three days and did the washing
up because the neurological injury had improved naturally enough but not
sufficient to avoid a relapse occurring three days later owing to using
the muscles too long walking back to my bed. I should have stayed off my
legs for longer to allow the damaged nerves to heal enough to cope
with it but I could not stand the pain anymore of the water injections.
The letter only refers to one of them for about three weeks as far as I
can recall. Also, I was too dejected owing to some nasty ill treatment
by some nurses believing I was a malingerer. I shall be
kind to them and put it down to righteous indignation because five
weeks before that I had been discharged branded a malingerer and Dr.
Klassnik told me I was going
to have my sickness benefit stopped but it was not. I would not have suffered that
relapse if I had been cared for properly or considerately with no
injections. I had not consented to any medication or injections of water
(see Redbridge Guardian and
Independent newspaper report) as I was unable to communicate. Two
days after admission I was told by a doctor that I was wanting treatment
and he said that after commenting that I had run to the loo and back
during the night - see later.
They presumed I was consenting to treatment. I was in agony for a
couple of days lying in bed so that must have been when the Stelazine
was injected, but I was not told what the syringes contained at all. The second night I was there I actually ran to the toilet
and back in my sleep. I was actually half asleep and so remembered it.
It happened because I had been keeping to the edge of the urine soaked
bed and I was psychologically propelled out of it running. For a while afterwards
the over-using the muscles produced the feeling that a knot or two
had been tied inside my head but no relapse happened. I could not walk when awake and could
virtually not move. That was just one of the bizarre symptoms of the
condition that has put the doctors off.
After I got walking for those three days I
suffered a relapse walking back to my bed owing to over - using the
injured nerves and it had not one jot to do with my parents. They
incorrectly got a lot of stick at beginning, poor things, from
medical staff blaming them for causing my illness.
I hope my parents did not lie to get me into
Severalls saying they had moved to Colchester where a relative lived. I
used that address to get into Severalls. My father was never a member of
Jehovah's Witnesses and my mother gave it up for twenty three years in
1976.
Kitty Willmott was not related. Dr. Klassnik
thinks the care of me was dedicated, but when the "cat's away the mice
will play" re. ill treatment by some of the nurses. Other nurses were
normal particularly one lady who would always feed me whenever she was
on duty. I would say I mostly received two meals a day. |