Cross everything.....

Things have been so great with "her". She is due to be discharged tomorrow, and so I went to visit her for a last "hoorah in the hospital".

And she received a phone call.

The kind of phone call that would send you spinning even if you were the healthiest, strongest person on the planet.

Her daughters' school telephoned. To tell her that her daughter threw her lunch out today, and refused to eat in front of the school counsellor.

Yes, her daughter has been required to eat her lunch in front of the school counsellor every day for the last month or so.

Because she has the beginnings of an eating disorder.

"Her" husband has taken their daughter to the doctor about it, after receiving a phone call from the school saying that teachers and pupils were concerned with her non-eating and weight-loss.

Today's phone call was an accident. The school was meant to discuss this only with her husband, and really messed up by calling her.

And she is in a spin. She is so close to the edge. Thank God I was there when she got the call.

Her husband and daughter came in to the hospital this evening to talk to her and her doctor, and nothing much was said.

I feel pleased that her daughter has been "found out" this early in her journey, and am confident that she will get the support and help that she needs to get through this before it becomes a major illness. I also think that this is a big cry for help from a 13 year old girl whose Mum has been so very ill and absent for such a long time. I feel that as "she" gets stronger, her daughter will also feel less out-of-control.

I am, however, extremely concerned about the impact of this news upon "her". The timing simply couldn't have been worse.

Please keep her in your thoughts.