Day eleven: her wish is not new
Eleven days after the forced admission, Trudy repeats what she has wanted for years: to remain living at home. The court order and medical statement have still not been provided.
Today is day eleven. Trudy is still in the locked facility in Amsterdam. And her wish is, once again, unchanged: she wants to go home.
Not a whim, but a settled wish
What is sometimes forgotten: Trudy’s wish to remain living in her own home is not new and not fleeting. It is a considered wish from years ago — set down at a time when no one was thinking of a locked admission — and she repeats it today, in her own words, undiminished. Anyone who says an 82-year-old “no longer knows what she wants” is contradicted by Trudy herself: she has known for years, and she knows it still.
She wants to live at home, in her own street, with the care that requires — care her family is willing to arrange at its own expense.
What is still missing
And eleven days after the admission, it still holds: the court order and the medical statement — the documents this entire admission rests on — have not been provided to Trudy or to her family, despite requests from the very first day.
Work continues without pause to bring Trudy home, and to obtain clarity about the grounds on which all of this is happening.
Her birthday is eight days away. She should be celebrating it at home.
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