It amazes me that it is easier for the people who commit crimes to get information than it is for the honest people to get needed information about the criminals.

I sent a request to the RN licensing enforcement group to find out if the person that claimed to be an RN was actually an RN. They were great about providing me with the information & I found out that the person wasn't a licensed RN. That was when I decided that I needed to find out if the person was actually employed by the hospital that she had claimed to be employed by.

I was told by the human resourses representative that they couldn't provide me with any information about the person without the request being in writing. The request has to be given to the vice president of human resourses & they have to determine if the information can be given out. Go figure.....all I needed to know was if the person was employed by them at the specified time & if she was, what position did she have (since I know now that she couldn't have been an RN).

The person in human resourses suggested that I could get the information by doing a paid search over the internet....only problem is that I would have to do a credit check to find her employment background......& of course, I don't have her social security #. She stole ours but I couldn't get hold of hers.

It is looking to me like the whole thing is a fraud situation. I don't know if fraud can be handled differently by the police than the ID theft & burglary, but I feel the need to try. I know that the police dropped the ID theft because the DA said there wasn't enough evidence against her. I know they never found the jewelry either.....that is almost impossible to locate unless a miracal happens.

I know that fraud is the way she got her way into the care of my Mother. Fraud is giving false information in order to get into a contract with someone. The first thing that happened was that she called the social worker at the hospital & identified herself as the home care RN of my Mother. Because of that, the social worker gave her information about my Mother's discharge before ever talking to me or giving me any information about my Mother (I am the only family). BIG MISTAKE. That fraud was the only reason that she ended up getting into that position of caring for my Mother. It was a friday & I hadn't been given any information from the hospital to contact any other care for my Mother & what else could I do with her being discharged without my knowledge. I thought I was trapped into using her because I didn't know of any other options since no one had ever talked to me. If she hadn't done that, my Mother couldn't have been discharged because there wouldn't have been any place for my Mother to go & I would have had the weekend to figure out what care she really needed.

I am waiting to get the hospital records on my Mother before filing any complaints with the hospital regarding the way they handled the situation & a complaint against APS for dropping the report I filed with them without ever talking to me. I talked to the man that holds the position between APS & the police department. I asked him about the report I filed & found out that I was opening up a can of worms regarding the procedure that was used in dealing with my case. I am not going to just let it drop. They are going to answer for what they did.....especially now that I know that the RN wasn't a real RN. The more I dig into what happened the more angry I get at what happened & how much was just dropped.

I feel that I need to deal with these things. When it happened, I also wanted to file a complaint with the hospital about how they handled my Mothers situation.. Now that I am getting all of my mothers hospital records, I will be able to find out exactly what I need to put into the complaint.

Unfortunately with going through all this information searching, I am having horrible anxiety attacks. My heart is continually pounding as if I were running a marathon. Even the seroquel I have been using isn't helping at all. I end up taking one & nothing. An hour later, I take another & still nothing. I had dropped my dose for awhile because I was waking up very groggy & couldn't function to do everything I have to do to pack up the homes for putting them for sale. I felt so desparate for some relief that I ended up taking the larger dose the other day & ended up fealing like I had ODed. I hate the feeling of having taken too much & there wasn't anything I could do about it at that time except sleeping it off. And my pounding heart still didn't stop pounding.

I know my pdoc told me that by digging into what had happened was what was effecting my anxiety attacks. Kinda suggesting that I don't continue with my search.......but there is something inside of me that makes me want to do as much as I can to see if I can't put a stop to what she is doing. My intuition from talking to her tells me that we weren't the first person she did it to & since she got away with it, I am sure we won't be the last.

Why is it that the crooks get away with things without being held accountable in this life & those of us who they hurt end up continuing the hurt as we try to put enough information together to stop them. I just can't give up until I have unturned all the stones & have left the information at each place that was part of the problem. It was a combination of problems across the board. If only & if only & if only & if only. But if the situation is documented at every place there was a problem, maybe people will be more cautious in the future. I don't want the situation to have happened for nothing. I have enough information that I want to make a difference & make people aware of what can happen & to be more cautious.

I have always been a person that takes action when I feel that there has been a wrong done. This was a huge wrong & I just can't let it pass without getting the story out into places that can make a difference.

I know that adding to my anxiety attacks are the job of getting 2 homes ready for sale & not having enough money to keep everything going. I know the money issues are definitely having an effect because the anxiety attack I had after dealing with finances was much more than I could deal with......causing a total melt down.

One day when this is all over, I will be able to sit back & take a deep breath, sit swinging on my on the front porch of my new farm with a glass of ice tea & look back at it all, knowing that I was able to make some difference in the lives of cancer patients that are vunerable to horrible people like we had to deal with.

Until then........anxiety ++++++,
Debbie