In October 1953, Dylan travelled to New York without her, to give further readings of "Under Milk Wood". On 5 November, he collapsed with breathing difficulties and was admitted to hospital. Caitlin travelled to America to be with her husband, though her reaction on arriving at his death bed was aggressive, reportedly shouting "Is the bloody man dead yet?". In her autobiography, "Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas", she states that she had no recollection of using the words, but she was, by her own words, "stinkin' drunk" by the time she arrived. Other reports state that when Caitlin found another woman tending to her comatose husband, she flew into a fit of rage, biting an attendant and fighting with bystanders until she was subdued. When she became uncontrollable, she was put in a straitjacket and committed to the River Crest private psychiatric detox clinic on Long Island.