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StarbuckDifranco
Female, 38, Oklahoma City, OK
"River threw up all last night, and now I've got it."
1:56pm Yesterday
Journal Entry for November 3, 2009 Restricted Content - Just Friends
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 | A Frustrating story
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Now I Know Why We Make Casseroles Mood
Friday, October 30, 2009 | A Positive story
So after the funeral today, my neighbor thanked me surprisingly enthusiastically for the casseroles I brought her the other day. I was like, aw, it's nothing. And she said no, that she had not eaten since Saturday (day of the wreck), but her mom put my casserole in the oven and it smelled SO good, she had to have some. Said she had 3 helpings in the next 24 hours. I was verklempt! That made me feel so good. I helped!
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  1. scubagirl1

    You've got a great heart Tonya :)


    scubagirl1

  2. InvertedBeauty

    Yummy smelling casseroles are impossible to resist. :)


    InvertedBeauty

Wrong, wrong, and...wrong as usual Mood
Friday, October 30, 2009 | A Venting story

I am getting sick of a certain little psycho bitch's innuendo.  First of all, she is trying to tell people what WE have been told, but she was never around and is getting her "information" as to what we have been told 3rd and 4th hand.

 

That being said, though, YES--I have been there every step of the way, have seen everything, every bullshit trumped-up "charge," hers and the hospital's. It was ridiculous, but since we have heard from numerous others about how this is just how that business operates.  I have heard such horror stories about them.

 

Anyway. There's no way in Hell I would have let M. go through a hearing without me at his side.  Know who else was at his side?  All "members of the tribe" from this area.  They knew--know--everything. None of it is embarrassing, and everyone agrees this was a witch hunt.

 

We WERE ready to go through with a hearing. Until the slew of witnesses were deposed, and then we were told that the board's lawyer could rifle through their histories and use the very reasons they were in the hospital against them to try and discredit them.  All these brave women came forward to defend M., and testify against the hospital and against psycho-bitch--who wasn't even going to bother to show up herself--and then we find out they could be hurt by this rabid lawyer and a board which showed it does not know its own statutes, yet apparently has statutes that would allow for the re-victimizing of the very sort of patients it should have been protecting, by going after them on a personal level.

 

The decision to surrender the license was based on 4 factors, as I recall.  1) Not wanting to drag these women through the mud (it was OK to throw mud at M., we were prepared, but NOT them!!!); 2) a growing general distaste for doing work in this state under such an ignorant, arrogant, power-crazy, politicized, and I believe bought-off board; 3) we had been going in another direction--M.'s career had been veering in another direction--for MONTHS since the beginning of this, and the career no longer requires a license so no need to pay annual dues, etc.; and 4) the sudden, disturbing news of M.'s mother's health rapidly going downhill.

 

And, everyone I can think of knows all this.  Knows all the details. And I have stated a few times that anyone who is curious can ask us about anything they want and we have no secrets.  Some funny, cooky stories, sometimes, but nothing is a secret!

 

What I wonder is:  for someone who over a year ago just wanted to be left alone, WHY is she STILL cyberstalking my husband?  She got her way...why not let it drop and move on?  Who is the sick one???  Hello.

 

 

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  1. finalytime

    That sucks...and there's nothing anyone can do?? And I suppose if you stand up to her...she will go crying foul and make some riduculous scene....anything we can do??;)


    finalytime

  2. BetterVersionOfMe

    Hey, read back a few journals T...my offer STILL stands :)

    She's pathetic...bottom line.


    BetterVersionOfMe

  3. StarbuckDifranco

    I am trying not to directly engage her in any way. But it is true--she ends up saying she wants no further contact from M., OK so why don't you leave M. alone?!?!??


    StarbuckDifranco


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