The Mysterious Patient in Room 23: The Hermit Baroness
My friend, then one I comment about here, now has a guardian. She&#x27;d incapacitated herself with alcohol in September 2019. Her father called me in October, &#x27;do you know where she is&#x27;? I said she was back in a mental hospital. She was released to the street, so her father and I went to file a missing person report with the police. The police officer looked her up &amp; said she wasn&#x27;t missing because she&#x27;d been taken back to the mental hospital that morning. The case worker at the mental hospital told us that hundreds of petitions for involuntary treatment get dropped every month because they don&#x27;t have the capacity to forcibly treat everyone they think needs to be forcibly treated. Because they now had context for the random crazy person who&#x27;d gotten dropped off by the cops, they had the ability to make sure my friend would not be released to the street again.<p>Her father spent $40,000 on a guardianship proceedings. She challenged the guardianship and was assigned a private guardian&#x2F;fiduciary company as her guardian. They dropped her off at a care home in December 2019: &quot;this is your life now.&quot;<p>Sometimes guardianship is fine. Sometimes it&#x27;s abusive.<p>Sobriety helped my friend recover from her September&#x2F;October 2019 drinking binge by February 2020, even though the drugs she was forcibly injected with are contraindicated for helping with substance abuse. My friend tried to make the best of her time at the care home: she got a phone job, was a counselor to other residents at that &#x27;mental health&#x27; care home, talked to her attorney and public advocate about getting moved out of the care home. They just ignored her and collected their fees from her estate.<p>Eventually she gave up, arranged for a ride from a friend she&#x27;d met online, and jumped the care home&#x27;s fence. She called me the next day, as she felt I was her best option for a place to stay. She did her own hostage negotiations with her one court-assigned attorneys. The guardian eventually found a care home where she could leave by herself during the day, which she thought was acceptable. This was basically a hospice home (worse than the mental health care home), but she had a little bit of freedom.<p>We separately filed with the court to ask for a replacement guardian. Her guardian filed a counter-petition for protective order, against me. The basis was &quot;our ward escaped from our custody, and tcj_phx did not tell us where she was at.&quot; This was granted. The court dismissed my petition for a replacement guardian. The court ignored my friend&#x27;s own petition for a replacement guardian.<p>The guardian took away her ability to leave the second care home on account of her use of drugs, shared by some friendly people at the local park. After 2 months of being locked up at the hospice home she called 911 for herself, was taken to a psych hospital, taken off all the psych drugs, then returned to the hospice home. Escaped, captured, escaped, captured. She doesn&#x27;t do well on the run.<p>This past summer has been terrible for my friend. I ran out of money for motels, and I couldn&#x27;t keep her off alcohol. I called the public fiduciary in August 2022. She said I could file a complaint with Adult Protective services [APS], but said it&#x27;s <i>very difficult</i> to get APS to open a case. I filed online, got a call within a day and a half. The APS worker came out to visit us. She asked my friend, &quot;are you safe?&quot; She confirmed she was. They dispatched six police officers and a team to pick up my friend the following morning. When I called her phone that morning, a male voice said I was in violation of a court order, and would&#x27;ve been arrested if I&#x27;d been there. It&#x27;s been almost 2 months, and I haven&#x27;t been arrested yet, so I think I&#x27;m safe.<p>Now my friend has an advocate. She&#x27;s been sent to a drug&#x2F;alcohol rehab business, which is progress. But they&#x27;ve still got her on Abilify, which is FDA-approved to give people compulsive behavior. Sometimes doctors do good work, sometimes they&#x27;re idiots. &lt;sigh&gt;.<p>I think this is all good material to motivate the Supreme Court to fix our make-work system of medicine and justice, but they don&#x27;t want to deal with me. This week I get to send a petition for rehearing [0] to the Justices, which they&#x27;re just going to ignore.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;rules&#x2F;supct&#x2F;rule_44" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.law.cornell.edu&#x2F;rules&#x2F;supct&#x2F;rule_44</a><p>I&#x27;ve asked for congressional oversight of the supreme court, but Congressman Gosar&#x27;s response told me that justice is only available to those who can afford an attorney. Senator Sinema&#x27;s staff responded to my meeting request by emailng a form letter about the WHO. Next I&#x27;m going to send her a paper letter asking her to clarify her response.<p>I went to Blake Masters&#x27; campaign stop (for U.S. Senate, vs. incumbent Senator Mark Kelly) and asked him about Medical Freedom, within the context of &quot;vaccine mandates&quot;. He had a good grasp of how the Biden Administration tried to use OSHA to force &quot;vaccines&quot; on people who don&#x27;t want to participate in the trials of this particular experimental drug.<p>Afterwards I told Mr. Masters the tragedy of Jared Loughner [1] was that Loughner was giving clear signs he was unhinged, but he couldn&#x27;t be helped because it&#x27;s &quot;a very serious deprivation of liberty to be forced into treatment.&quot; Mr. Masters had an intenseness to listening: as if he hears the same crap at every campaign stop, but he hadn&#x27;t heard about <i>The Tragedy of Jared Loughner</i> before.<p>[1] Jared Lee Loughner shot up Congresswoman Giffords&#x27; &quot;Congress On Your Corner&quot; event in January 2011. His parents tried to intervene in his deterioration, but didn&#x27;t know what to do. Giffords is Senator Kelly&#x27;s wife. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jared_Laughner" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Jared_Laughner</a><p>I read this story about the hospital filing for guardianship of an incapacitated old woman and think, &quot;that&#x27;s reasonable&quot;. I consider my friend&#x27;s predicament with guardianship and am infuriated.<p>I think everyone supports medical freedom, except for conservatives who&#x27;ve fallen for a version of &quot;fake spirituality&quot;, and liberals who&#x27;ve been terrorized into thinking their survival depends on everyone getting dosed with pharmaceuticals.<p>Maybe I&#x27;ll submit a poll.<p>edit: I resonate with this, at the conclusion of the submission: &quot;“I’m still fighting for her,” Ms. Faerber said.&quot; (Faerber is &quot;a housekeeper and caregiver from Guyana&quot;).