!!WEW!! Mrs.Phlosphr and I just returned. Things went well. I was under the impression I was going to be put on a stand and asked to tell a story. Tell a story I did, but put on a stand I wasn’t. We met with the woman in question - who didn’t even have the decency to dress appropriately - state’s union lawyer, District Nurse, Regional Administrator, two employees at the home, the Judge, the homes Lawyer, and my wife and I.
Starting off we found out that the suit had to do with the home, and not the incident in question. The woman was pissed that she did not get three strikes, only 2. As a Union employee, she was protected by certain laws, and a proper paper trail must exist. She had been written up previously at a seperate facility for negligence, and twice at the current home, once for negligence once for the incident in question. The three strike rule only applies to one facility, and the way this particular nursing pool works if a nurse has a problem they change the facility they are at to lower cost to the company, so they don’t have to hire someone else.
After a half hour of listening to the union attorney say his piece the judge asked me to tell my story. I told them all the extent of the heinousness of the crime and looked directly at the lady and said, " You are lucky you are not in jail for assault!"
I was prompty told to calm down and not speak directly to the plaintif.
We found out later that the woman had not gone back to another facility, but started collecting unemployment. She was suing for lost wages, and grief. Greif, GRIEF!!! You have got to be kidding me…
Anyway after saying my piece and looking directly at the judge then the union attorney, and saying," If you had seen the look on billy’s face when heinous woman yelled at him, and pushed him to the ground by his hair, we would not be sitting here right now, and heinous woman would be legitimately put behind bars. This is a criminal event. Had a figure of authority been there to witness it, she’d have been handcuffed and that would be the end of it. But in this state we pay her unemployment, and let her sue the facility that housed the young man she assaulted…"
I shook my head and looked away in disgust. My wife piped in her account, and dealing with the supervising nurse in the days after the event. The judge and union attorney and the homes attorney chatted for a bit, and the judge stopped the case from going any further. He took the write up at the previous institution counted that as his third strike. The woman was granted nothing.
Heinous woman is a leech, and would suck any free benefit dry until there was no more to give her, then she’d turn her attention to another state I am sure. New England is not only too conservative to attempt to rehabilitate someone of her character.
The only other place Mrs.Phlosphr and I have lived was in Arizona, that was when we were in Graduate School. If this had happened there, heinous woman would be behind bars sitting in Tent City.
I have lost something today though. My illusions - or delusions- that people can turn themselves around, become better people, not suck life from innocents. Because that’s exactly what HW did. She stooped to a new - or maybe not so new - low.
I’ll not preach, because I am not a preacher. But it takes two seconds to change the outcome of something from being bad to maybe not so bad. And the feeling obtained from this is euphoric, yet at the same time quite gut wrenching.
A cat may be coming to the Phlosphr household soon 
thanks Peg