After giving ER all of the information upon intake...

After giving ER all of the information upon intake for our daughter that they needed, they administered Haliperdol. I still dont know how much or why. Because she was visiting friends they called to ask information. I explained that she is recovering from ADEM and it might be a flare. She was presenting to me as a flare. Since we are her advanced directive and DPOA they asked if she could have ATIVAN in order to run the MRI. I told them NO, she has adverse reactions to this and Xanax, please use 1 dose of valuim.v They ignored that and gave it to her anyway. On Sunday our daughter was lucid and sounded great. When I got there I found out they were still giving ATIVAN and Haliperadol cocktail. After making a scene and producing my credentials once again they finally stopped giving her the meds. Our daughter suffered for 6 extra days in the hospital while they were running all kinds of expensive tests, except for the ones they really needed to. They just didn't believe their cocktail was giving her flashbacks to her previous years traumatic experience with St Agnes and living with ADEM. The Psyc Doc got stuck in his own brain that she was a schizophrenic. Mind u I have close in-laws that have this condition. In my researching, I have found that Haliperadol can cause everything that our daughter went through from day 3 to unknown, can last up to 40 days and is life threatening. Because the quack on her case had no respect for not only her mom that has been there this whole year of recovery, dismissed my DPOA and advanced directive, and convinced all of the others on her case that she was a nut job, our daughter did NOT receive proper medical care. NMS could have long lasting affects. Proper treatment can be found if the doctors just listen.

6th floor acute rehab still ROCKS. We will always be grateful for that care last year.