Dear Oyster… you ma’s “experiences” sound just the same as Mrs T’s mum. Unlike some other medical hallucinations (ketamine induced e.g.) they seem to have no lasting effect and can be “put away” quite easily. Quite a common condition so I hear. Don’t hear of it because sufferers and their close-ones don’t want to be thought of as bonkers!
The hospital pharmacy delay is par for the course. Often better and quicker to get the scrip and take it to local pharmacy. Mrs T’s one took 16 hours – gave up after two-hour wait. Took her home and came back for the earliest pick-up in the late afternoon next day. Why hospital pharmacy delays are so chronic defeats me. As does the fact that even the Quality Control surveys find it unacceptable but nothing gets done about it. Probably just another step in the privatisation plan.