Together for Trudy: the effort to bring her home
Her son, her family, her friends and her regular caregivers are joining forces to bring Trudy home. Witness statements have been gathered, legal counsel engaged, and no one is giving up.
While Trudy is held against her will in a closed facility, something powerful is growing around her: the people who love her are not giving up.
A son who won’t stop
Her son is leading the effort and doing everything he can to bring his mother home. He has engaged legal counsel and formally instructed the lawyer, he is requesting an urgent hearing so the court also hears his side, and he has requested the underlying documents. His message to his mother is simple: hold on, I will get you out of here.
A community speaking up
Trudy is not alone. Neighbours, friends and regular informal caregivers who have known her for years — some for decades — have, of their own accord, provided dated, signed statements. Several signed statements have now been received. They testify to what they saw with their own eyes: that Trudy lived independently in her own home, lucid and responsive, with daily support from home care and neighbours, and that she posed no danger to herself or to others.
These people are now being kept at a distance. Yet they are making their voices heard — because the picture that led to her admission does not match the woman they experienced every day.
What the family is asking
The goal is unchanged and simple: that Trudy returns to her own home, with the care she needs and which her family is willing to arrange at its own expense, and that there is full clarity about how this was allowed to happen. She is 82 and turns 83 this month. She deserves to spend the rest of her life in dignity and peace, at home, among the people who love her.
This post will be updated as more becomes known.