Chap11 Tough Love
I really should be at school today but I'm ill so I thought I'd take this as a chance to update. Thank you for your reviews please keep them coming.
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"What is it you plan to do with him doctor?" Emma asked. They were sitting in his office sharing a lunch of soggy canteen sandwiches and flat coke.
The doctor took a bite of his sandwich pulling a slight face of disgust. "Sheldon has a number of problems. I have just been reading his case notes he said nodding towards the pile of papers on his desk.
"I know he has problems. My question was what you plan to do about these problems. As I am sure you have seen from his notes these problems have existed for some time now. You did nothing to help him last time or anything you did try was unsuccessful," Emma said wearily.
"Mrs Watson let me assure you we looking into a number of different medications that may help control his condition," the doctor answered.
"Drugs aren't the answer to everything Doctor. I would have thought it was clear from his background that these problems are more than likely derived from the problems he had as a child. We are aware of the very basic outline of his living conditions with his birth parents. What we know is bad enough but can you even begin to imagine the things he endured and has told no one about. I honestly don't think drugs are the answer here. I think we need to find a way to get him to talk about his childhood. I know we attempted to do this before but I think it's our only chance here," she said.
The doctor looked sceptically at her. "Like you said we tried this before but as you also remember it had very little success it only seemed to succeed in upsetting him more. The medication I want to try him on should help calm him and maybe in time we might be able to talk to him. I am not dismissive of therapy or some form of psychiatry. I think it is a very important and significant part in helping him. What you are failing to see however is at this stage is before we can begin to listen to him we must get him stabilised. Anything he says right now will be of no use to us and will only upset him further. We are better waiting until we calm him down. That will give us a clearer picture of what we are dealing with then we can work out the best way to treat him.
Emma stared at him in slight disbelief. "How can you say this doctor? Would you not agree that now is the best time to speak to him, without any form of medication in his system? I would have thought doing it in that way would give us a truer picture as his emotions will be nearer the surface at the moment so we might be able to get him to talk to us easier right now?" she persisted.
Again the doctor shook his head. "I can understand what you are saying but I have made up my mind. We will start Sheldon on some medication today and we will see how he is in a few days then we can begin to speak to him about his problems," he said firmly.
"Can you at least give me half an hour to speak to him. If I make some kind of process then maybe we can hold out a bit longer until we know a little more about what is going on inside his head before we start him on medication?" she asked.
The doctor sighed heavily. "Fine, you have half an hour then I start the medication," he said shooing her from his office.
"Thank you," Emma said taking her leave. The soggy sandwiches and flat coke lay forgotten on the desk.
She made her way to his room silently hoping h would talk to her. The last thing she wanted for him to but put on medication that would dull his mind and a true answer and solution would never be found to his problems. She knew that's what was going to happen if he didn't give her even a little co-operation.
