In the above texts from my sister to my wife
(January 8, 2015) we had just completed a treatment and discharge plan
meeting with the Seaview staff. At that meeting my wife and I
discovered that my sisters had influenced my mother not to include
either me or my wife as a health care proxy (to the shock and dismay of
the rehab staff) and instead listed themselves as her sole healthcare
proxies even though neither of them resided any where near Staten
Island. It didn't seem to matter to my sisters that my wife and I
had been the sole caretakers of my mother since my father's passing in
2008. When we questioned my mother about this arrangement she said
her daughters assured her that they would share any information they
obtained with me, which never happened.
At this discharge plan meeting, the Seaview staff made it clear that my
mother could not be left alone in her home but needed full time
assistance to toilet and bathe herself and to assist her in getting into
and out of her bed and wheelchair as well as help preparing meals and
taking her medications. However they were able to rehabilitate her
to the point that she could use a walker to walk up to forty feet as
long as someone was present to assist her.
When this was discussed with my sisters they outright refused to allow
me and my wife to secure in home care for my mother and ordered me to
move in with my mother to provide her needed care even though they knew
that this was ridiculous as I was working full time (and had a serious
work related back injury since the summer of 2010 which seriously
affected my ability to bend and lift). I was not eligible for
retirement until the end of April 2015, at which point I became
immediately eligible for social security disability benefits.
As my mother's discharge date approached, both my sisters left Staten
Island and returned to Florida and Binghamton respectively. At
this point my wife and I entered my mother's house and found it
ransacked (see images page). It looked like a bomb went off.
Cabinets and drawers were left open and clothing and objects were
strewn all over my mother's bed and bedroom. The hallway was also
obstructed.
I took some pictures and brought them to the social workers at Seaview
and explained to them that we would need a few days to straighten up her
living quarters and arrange for an in home health care aide. They
agreed that my mother could stay as a self paid patient while these
arrangements were made. Evidently my mother contacted my sisters
to inform them and they told her not to believe us, that we were trying
to permanently sign her into a nursing home and in addition it would be
dangerous for her to have an in home aide, feeding on my mother's
disorientation and fears, having been out of her familiar surroundings
for over a month.
The following texts from my sister shed light on what my wife and I were dealing with during this trying time:
The above texts from my sister Cecilia (who was back
in Binghamton, NY at the time) were received on the day my mother was
scheduled to be discharged from Seaview.
Before we made actual hiring arrangements for my mother's health care aide we contacted our nieces:
The references to "Bess" have to do with the fact that my wife and I
were aware that my niece Bess was unhappy in her present employment and
we reached out to both Bess and her sister Adele to see if Bess would
like to be my mother's (her grandmother's) health care aide (for which
my mother would be willing to pay her since she was a registered nurse)
since my sisters had terrorized my mother over the prospect of having a
relative stranger as her health care aide. This was
obviously unacceptable to my sister Cecilia who apparently relied on
Bess to be her source of narcissistic supply and was unwilling to allow
her daughter to leave the Binghamton area. Why my sister would
bring her husband into this conversation appears to be another symptom
of her
mental illness.
In spite of these vicious attacks from my
sisters, and out of concern for my mother's welfare, my wife and I
continued to have a helpful and cordial relationship with my sisters as
shown below:
As shown in the above texts, my wife and I
were always willing to help my sisters when needed, in spite of the
fact that they made it virtually impossible (for me, my wife, and my
sons) to see or speak to my mother after March 18, 2015 (my mother's
birthday).
The date of the above texts (from my younger sister who was in Florida)
was approximately one week before my niece Bess (in an intervention
initiated by her siblings) left Staten Island to stay with her sister in
Chicago. It is my understanding that Bess was near a nervous
breakdown due to the incessant narcissistic abuse she was being
subjected to by her mother while trying to also care for her invalid
grandmother.
It appears that my sister Becky returned to Staten Island shortly after
my niece's departure but only stayed until around November 15th.
Evidently all hell broke loose after Becky returned to Florida and my
sister Cecilia was left alone with my mother because I received a call
from my mother on November 18th (after not hearing from her for over
seven months) in which my sister is heard screaming and cursing at my
mother in the background.
My wife and I went over to my mother's house the following morning
(November 19th) and discovered that my mother had been abandoned by my
sister and had been sitting in a soiled diaper in her wheelchair at the
kitchen table all night. Upon taking over the care of my mother we
discovered that my sisters had been robbing my mother blind which
included at a minimum stealing no less than $21,000.00 in cash
withdrawals from her savings, checkings, and money market accounts (one
of the depleted savings accounts was a joint account with me (her son)
which was emptied of its entire $9,000.00 content), another
$9,000.00 withdrawal from one of her checking accounts, and a $3,000.00
withdrawal from her IRA which had been established with money from my
father's $100,000.00 life insurance policy. In addition all the
EXXON stock certificates that were kept in a steel box in a kitchen
cabinet were missing, in fact the whole steel box was gone. It is
my information and belief that the value of these stocks were well in
excess of $100,000.00. To add even more insult to this injury it
appears my sister Becky had used her power of attorney to set my
mother's Citibank credit card bills to be auto paid directly from her
checking account into which she had her social security and teacher's
pension directly deposited. My sister Cecilia was using my
mother's credit card to rack up $3,000.00 to $4,000.00 in charges above
and beyond the normal $1,000.00 or so my mother had normally been billed
per month. That amounted to another $35 to $40,000.00 for
purchases by my sister that had no relation to the care of my mother or
the bills on her house over the 10 months she had supposedly been caring
for my mother.
Upon discovering the above, and other
abuse and endangerment I found I had no choice but to initiate a
guardianship proceeding after being advised to do so by Adult Protective
Services.
Latest update: summer of 2022. I just keep finding more and more of these emails in my archives.
The above email seem to hint at a bit of antisemitism wouldn't you say ?
The above email is a thinly veiled narcissistic smear campain by my mentally ill sister. In one sentence she is praising me for taking such good care of my mother that she wants me to take her (my mom) to my house or to a hotel 3 days a week, and then in the next she is telling me how terrible my wife and I are. The simple truth is that my sisters had already stolen over $160,000.00 from my mother during the previous ten months, while she (my sister) prevented me, my wife, and my sons from visiting my mother. Funny how she claims to know all about accessibility, does she mean putting plywood on cinder blocks as a wheel chair ramp or maybe putting a chainfall in the bathroom to toilet my invalid mother ? (see the home page images)