Cathy Maguire

And then, like, she had the graduation was the 12th of November 2016.

And the week after that was when she started reaching out for help.

And with mental illness, a week can be a very long time.

You can slip so far in a week.

Do you know?

Could you see it?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

But I kept saying, no, sure, like, they'll have her in.

You know, her name is on file.

It should be no big deal.

You know, they'll get her in.

But she even made the phone call herself.

And then myself and my husband, a week later, we started to panic.

my husband was ringing them on a daily basis and they were like, we need a referral letter.

And she'd gotten a referral letter, but they were saying it's not strong enough.

Like all they should have known, all they should have heard is her name and get her back in.

It was absolutely closed.

And we felt so lost, like we just felt so helpless.

But then my husband, it was the 2nd of December, he finally got, he had to ring the doctors and give them a blow by blow of what the letter needed to say.