1 result for (book:tps7 AND heading:"delet session decemb 7 1983" AND stemmed:me)
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catheter
Teresa
LuAnn
Georgia
infection
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(Jane was upset when I got to 330 this noon: Her catheter had been completely pulled out of her this morning after hydro, when Georgia and Steve had transferred her back into bed from the litter. Staff people had tried putting it back in, but couldn’t get it to drain. Before that it had worked well. “Your wife won’t be speaking to me anymore, after what I did to her this morning,” Georgia said to me as I walked down the hall to 330. A new catheter had been inserted, but that one wasn’t working when I got there.
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(“Will you say something about that woman—Teresa—who keeps crying out ‘Help me, help me, help me?’ I’m fascinated by her.”)
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(4:01 PM. “It’s me,” Jane said.
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(“The nurses told me that woman has a history of mental trouble,” Jane said, “and has been diagnosed as schizophrenic.” I hadn’t heard her this afternoon yet. Jane said she had last night, and that she was going this morning.
(Seth’s statement that Jane doesn’t have an infection reminded me that months ago Marcia Kardon had very adamantly told us that when a person has a catheter inserted “they always—always—get an infection.” Jane remembered that negative suggestion.
(I read the session to Jane. At 4:10 Teresa began sounding off—but her voice sounded muted, as though she was speaking behind a closed door. Then Jane told me that Teresa is only in her mid-50’s, and that Georgia said she’s quite rational in between her spells of calling for help. I was surprised at both statements.
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(I did got to a cocktail party the Leahys had invited me to after all. There was enough snow when I left the hospital to make me take it quite easy driving home. It was 20 degrees when I got up this morning, and three hours later as I type this record it isn’t much warmer.)
