If the mail has to be read loud, a guardian or one of the staff will do it depending on which agreement has been made.
If family members arent allowed to see her which I believed was the case and will believe it as long as noone corrects me if things have changed there. This means
one of the staff will be the first to see the letter.
Unfortunately it also means that the wording of letters may be twisted too eg they could even use these in their own so called therapy to try to brainwash her, they could add in things like "I hope you are following the treatment there so you can get well and out soon" etc. Its not a too far stretch to think at the lengths the hospital may go to true to "cure" her.
She's too sick to even recognise her own sister who cared for her, so there is no way while she's that sick that she would be able be reading things herself.
May I suggest to
put things like funny photos or pictures into the cards..
When I was extremely sick with ME, people talking to me was a torture as it was too overwhelming on my brain, too stimulating and I was struggling to understand language (it was like russian and I dont speak that).
Someone reading stuff to me would of been torturous back then
I had severe noise sensitivity too on top of it being too much on my brain
I really hope Katina doesnt have the same issue with things being sent to her. Please people do consider that this may be the case if doing her letters or cards, it could well be part of her torture..
Part of the "sense therapy" could well be reading the cards to her in her completely overwhelmed brain state, and unfortunately one cant turn off ones ears.
So I strongly suggest to send pictures to her. at least she can shut her eyes and doesnt have to look if they are trying to overload that sense and it probably
will be far better too on her brain in her current state of being. She's way on ME overload so please consider that when sending to her. Im sure right now she would be having trouble in understanding language from just what we've heard with the sister thing.
When I was bedridden and very bad, I got down to 1-2 word communication as I lost ability for phrases eg by the time one gets to the end of the sentence one has forgot the start due to the very slow processing of the brain (trying to get brain around what each word means), leaving one completely unable to understand a sentence even if the person spoke slow. And if a person spoke faster so I didnt forget start of the sentance, my mind couldnt keep up so that's when I'd get what im going to call the "russian" or unknown language effect which just scrambles the brain.
I have my doubts that they (mental hospital staff) would be even trying to read to her in a way she may be able to understand. I get frustrated on the phone a lot due to people when I say to "slow down so I can understand you better" (last 3 sales people have hung up on me with frustration) they just dont, and this poor women is dealinf with people who dont even believe her symptoms, so they wouldnt be doing anything for there to actually try to help