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first hospitalisation
Just getting to into hospital is such a challenge. You can see your son or daughter weight dropping each week, you can see and smell the changes happening to them and you are so scared of the waiting...
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research
June 2011. Day 3 at home. She is still so happy to be home that meal times are reasonably calm and she has taken on a few new foods. Joy for this week is reaching the milestone of eating yoghurt and...
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first hospitalisation (2)
Sophie’s first hospitalisation lasted 8 weeks. In hindsight it wasn’t long enough. The hospital has since regretted letting her go to soon. She needed to be more stable in her eating patterns. It...
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six mths between hospital stays
By middle of October 2010 she was ready to be discharged. Being ready is a debatable term and freely open to one’s personal view of the situation. We had two promises from the hospital – 1. she would...
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anorexia and main-stream acceptance
What a depressing time spent researching what teens view on the internet. I admit, I am very naive. I design websites, do a lot of internet related activities but essentially stay within what I find...
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one month out of hospital
I listen to Sophie run up the stairs yet again. Some days she manages this several times. Other days she is in constant motion, unable to sit still – a gentle burn to the calories she intakes. Yes we...
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never forget
Reading through other parents stories, pieces of your own story flow back to your conscience level. I had shelved the memories of the meltdown that meal times used to create. You would talk, reason,...
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where’s my wand
“NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH”. Like a million others, that moment in the Harry Potter movie when Mrs Weasley told off Bellatrix for trying to kill Ginny, is pure gold. And then she blew Bellatrix into a...
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watching the eating disorder play the field
The psychiatrist visit was as tough as I predicted. Our counsellor had already given her a heads up so she was very ready for us. I listened to Sophie again go on and on about the mum and dad...
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limping to the end of another week
Sure was a fallout from the sleep over, but I thought it may have been medical. Silly me. Monday was GP day – weigh day. Haven’t had a weigh for over a month. Sophie was tired still from weekend and a...
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