Something’s not right
Bad night last night. A SH/SA? trip to emergency for daughter was compounded by the fact that they decided to swab test her for COVID-19. Fair enough. Except that meant she couldn't catch a taxi home, and they didn't want her hanging around the waiting room. At four in the morning with rain threatening, where was she meant to go? She phoned us, very upset... Hubby was still under the effects if his nighttime medication, so wasn't able to drive, no-one else in the immediate family has a licence, and friends that she might have asked otherwise have health conditions that might make them more subsceptible.
There's been no cases anywhere in our region for a week or two, and were never many to start with. Almost nil chance she'd test positive. So effectively she was stranded by red tape. 
I do understand why they want a wide range of community tests done, but I don't think they thought this situation through properly. MH staff wouldn't come and see her, not at any point in her visit, even though she'd been resistant to going in the ambulance. We couldn't pick her up until nearly 8 a.m., so she was exhausted and had been through considerable distress. Not what you want when she was distressed before any of that even happened.
I'm encouraging her to lodge an official complaint. They were following their guidelines, but in the situation, mishandled the discretionary aspects of those badly.
She really needs to find some way of keeping herself safe and away from the hospital. Psychologists are increasingly worried about the MH collateral damage from the pandemic response. I'm increasingly concerned that she may come under that. 😞
And we're exhausted now too. Neither of us slept after the phone call, despite Hubby's grogginess.
