'I Left My Dying Father in the Hands of a Psychopath'
In May 2002, my father was hospitalized with his fifth bout of pneumonia. I planned to visit L.A. in a few days when Staci called and said the shower door in the house was leaking. She knew my preference for avoiding toxic chemicals, and the shower guy would use a toxic sealer. I decided to postpone my trip until the door was fixed.
An hour later, Dr. Berg called, and I brought up the subject of Staci's being his patient. He told me he had never treated her."I've never even met her!" he said."I've spoken to her many times on the phone.""Then she was never there when you visited my father in the hospital?""Oh my God," he said softly.I call the hospital and left a message for the nursing supervisor.
I'd suspected she wasn't always putting in the hours she claimed—but I never imagined her dishonesty could be so deep or insidious. I remembered the phone call I'd gotten from Holly, a nursing assistant who worked for us briefly. She quit because she suspected Staci was forcing ER visits and other treatments on my dad he didn't need.
Staci had never been my friend. She was a master con artist. A colorful storyteller. A gifted actress.The horror was my father's loss. If I'd known he was alone...nothing would have stopped me from being in L.A. Staci knew the story about my shower would keep me away, given my fear of toxic chemicals. I'd later discover the shower had never leaked. The company said Staci was the one who'd kept canceling.
At some point, I realized she'd conveyed her resentment of me by putting her words in the other employees' mouths. The vicious threats she attributed to them had all come from one person: Staci.After Daddy died, my boyfriend and I moved into my parents' house. One afternoon, a young real estate agent came to the door, canvassing the neighborhood for homes to list.He said that he'd come by the house in January and talked to a woman who said she was my sister.
I've since learned Staci has a criminal record of grand theft and has gone by different aliases. The good news is she no longer has a nursing license so she's not conning other families.
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