Are medical conditions caused by a BPD slow suicide or prolonged drama

[Think About It...]

An interesting post to another topic has made me wonder:


A little history:

During one of her suicide attempts, my step daughters BPD mom ran her car into a tree driving 100+ mph.  One of her legs was ripped of at the scene.  The other leg had to be rebuilt.  Did she follow all the doctors orders or allow all necessary treatment.  No.  She left AMA from the burn unit before the doctors finished the skin grafting ("They were so mean to me", because they wouldn't let her come and go from the unit to smoke.  (HELLO, BURN UNIT, RISK OF INFECTION, OTHER PATIENTS TO WORRY ABOUT)  So the leg has had open wounds for 8 months now.  She now goes from hospital to hospital, doctor to doctor in search of "help"(mostly oxycontin and morphine to supplement her crack habit).  She never follows through with any of the treatments they prescribe as they are all Quacks (unless they give her a prescription she likes).  She refused to go to a rehabilitation hospital to be able to use that rebuilt leg or let it heal properly.  She recently was caught trying to increase (forging) the number of pills on a prescription.  Since then, at least at our hospital, unless she has clear symptoms of something other than "Look at me, can't you tell I would be in pain" she can't get anything stronger than Tylenol. 

The thing is, not only does she use that leg to get pain meds, she uses it to get out of getting arrested.  Per some of the officers that know us, the last time they arrested her on a warrant, the officers for the county that issued the warrant would not take her because the leg was draining so much.  She also let them know that she has Hepatitis C  and that it was possible to spread it to them through blood / bodily fluid exchange.  Since the county officers didn't want to have to clean out their squad car, they let her go with Notice to Appear only.  (HELLO, THE WARRANT WAS FOR FAILURE TO APPEAR).

What do you think?

[Her Mama]

An interesting post to another topic has made me wonder:


A little history:

During one of her suicide attempts, my step daughters BPD mom ran her car into a tree driving 100+ mph.  One of her legs was ripped of at the scene.  The other leg had to be rebuilt.  Did she follow all the doctors orders or allow all necessary treatment.  No.  She left AMA from the burn unit before the doctors finished the skin grafting ("They were so mean to me", because they wouldn't let her come and go from the unit to smoke.  (HELLO, BURN UNIT, RISK OF INFECTION, OTHER PATIENTS TO WORRY ABOUT)  So the leg has had open wounds for 8 months now.  She now goes from hospital to hospital, doctor to doctor in search of "help"(mostly oxycontin and morphine to supplement her crack habit).  She never follows through with any of the treatments they prescribe as they are all Quacks (unless they give her a prescription she likes).  She refused to go to a rehabilitation hospital to be able to use that rebuilt leg or let it heal properly.  She recently was caught trying to increase (forging) the number of pills on a prescription.  Since then, at least at our hospital, unless she has clear symptoms of something other than "Look at me, can't you tell I would be in pain" she can't get anything stronger than Tylenol. 

The thing is, not only does she use that leg to get pain meds, she uses it to get out of getting arrested.  Per some of the officers that know us, the last time they arrested her on a warrant, the officers for the county that issued the warrant would not take her because the leg was draining so much.  She also let them know that she has Hepatitis C  and that it was possible to spread it to them through blood / bodily fluid exchange.  Since the county officers didn't want to have to clean out their squad car, they let her go with Notice to Appear only.  (HELLO, THE WARRANT WAS FOR FAILURE TO APPEAR).

What do you think?

[At_Bay]

What a terrible situation to be in and to witness for all concerned. I guess she's considered mentally competent or else she'd be committed by now. Any judge threatened to commit her? Looks like not cooperating with anybody is part of being self-destructive. Creates more drama and attention as well perhaps. It sure sounds like very strange behavior.

At Bay

[Her Mama]

No one has spoken of commiting her that I know of.  Someone posted a while back that "You can fake sane but you can't fake crazy", I guess that is her story.  As long as she keeps jumping from doctor to doctor and hospital to hospital, no one deals with her long enough to see the crazy.