The secret life of Evie

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When she came out of hospital, she had appointments to have weigh-in weekly and to weekly see CAMHS, which stands for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, who basically provided family therapy for Evie and her parents. She also had a strict meal plan to stick to at home, and while she was at home, she was not aloud to walk around too much and not aloud to go outside, and of course. Also not aloud to exersize.

As soon as Evie got home she decided she wasn't going to follow the meal plan at all, she refused lunch, but the meal plan says if they refuse lunch, they have to drink these supplement drinks instead. So Evie did. Then after the first few days. She began refusing the supplement drinks as well. All the while exersizing in her room at night.

She reduced her meals down and down each few days.

At weigh-ins they would tell her that she would get Ill again if she carried on. But she did anyway, she wasn't giving up. 1 meal a day, 1 meal would be all she would eat. No matter how much her mum yelled, no matter how many lectures her dad gave her, she wouldn't touch anything, apart from 1 meal. 750calories.

After getting up to around 45kg when getting put of hospital, she went back down to 40kg and got ill again.

On her 16th birthday she went into hospital for her weigh-in, they found out about her weight loss, and how she had also stopped drinking a lot as well. They sent her in another room to have blood tests, but hey kept of putting the kneedle in her arm and nothing came out because of dehydration.

She started crying because she knew what was coming.

They sent her over to pau, the Pediatric Assessment Unit, which is the place she got asked questions, when she was admitted to hospital. The first time. She waited for ages and ages until this nurse. Mel, came over and said that she needs to stay in hospital for another three weeks.

Later on she came over to Evie and brought her some lunch, 5 portions, just like on her meal plan at home.

She was hysterically crying, she could hardly breath.

Happy fucking birthday Evie, you're going into hospital.

The fact that it was on her birthday made everything seem so much worse. Mel made her eat her lunch, so she did, even though she was crying so hard she could barely see.

She was then sent over to the very same bed that she was in before, in the same bay.

She didn't stop crying.

Her parents left her all alone. A nurse came over and said that her meal plan would start the next day but she was there to do dinner with her.

The nurse took her over to the dinner que and they picked something. They went back to her bed with the tray and Evir just say there and cried and cried. The nurse had no idea what to do so she attempted to comfort her.

"What's wrong hunny?"

"I -sniff- I just really dont want to be here again"

She refused to eat the meal and the nurse left. Evie did her hospital workout routine and went to sleep.

The next morning she woke up and it felt like a nightmare, back in the same bed, like she never left. A nurse came in to do breakfast with her, but she refused it.
Then she refused the supplement drinks.
The nurse asked if she could put an NG tube down Evie's throat because that's what they have to do if she refuses everything. Of course she said no. So the nurse got a female doctor over to talk to her. Evie sat there, crying, she didn't really stop crying from when she was admitted again. The doctor was very nice to her, comforting her by stroking her arm a little bit, and saying that she knows it's hard but that Evie had to do it, eventually.