Day 15 in Geri Psych

Update, day 15

mom has a BFF there - "crazy Mary" is what she calls her herself -
she's about Moms age.  She's new to the unit, as she put it "When
crazy Mary comes out, I know its time to come here"
I thought her name was Mary, but J reminded me this was crazy town,
and Crazy Mary, may infact be a personality. :/ Her niece was visiting and we talked about how fun crazy Mary is, but sometimes it goes a bit to far.  She said they have to joke about it, because its like a roller coaster.  Sounds familiar.

Anyway, Mom and her were having a big ole time in the day room when I
got there, so we stayed in the day room.
They were talking about how nice everyone is - and this black man in a
wheelchair that I had never heard say a word said "you think this
place is NICE?! "  It was all I could do to keep from falling out.

Mom told Crazy Mary that she was glad she could be there to help her
through her problems.  Crazy Mary's niece was there and said, oh me
too.  and Winked at me.

so Crazy Mary's niece was totally in on the game and is a much better
player than me.  Come to find out, Crazy Mary is a regular, and the
niece knows them all pretty well too.

It was a riot.  I cant really do it justice typing it, other than both
the niece and I encouraged them to dance later, after visitation was
over.  oy.

I talked to the social worker on my way out and she said that she had
heard from Jaquith and the paper work is at the 2nd physician (2 plus
the recommending one have to agree placement is warranted) so that
sounds promising.