I could hear them giggling. I was under the hospital sheet with my legs spread as if it was a Gynecology exam and I recognized the voices of the male and female visiting nurses at Barton Hospital who had been hanging around my bed earlier that night. Now they were doing something to me and I have my legs splayed out. At the time I had a job where I got up at midnight no matter what and worked until 8:00 or 10:00 in the morning so it didn't matter that I was drugged on Hospital downers, when I heard people giggling on the other side of the sheet I woke up and wanted to see who it was. So I pulled aside the sheet and saw them and earlier they both had talked about how horrible Barton Medical Center treats the nurses, that they were going to have to leave tomorrow because they could only work three days at a time otherwise they would get benefits. We had had this long talk before I went to sleep and now here those two people were finger banging me when they thought I was drugged and unconscious. I wasn't. Both of them jumped back shocked that I woke up and then both of them started talking real fast about how they had six children both of them had six children from separate marriages and they couldn't lose their jobs because those twelve children would be affected. The female nurse tried to put on a catheter and failed because she was so shaky so she ran out of the room and left me there to be found the next morning lying in a pool of urine. Next day after the doctors fixed my hip- that really didn't even need surgery the whole thing was ridiculous- all I got from that trip to the hospital was raped- as soon as I could I grabbed my clothes and ran out of the hospital; luckily I only live a block away so I got myself home. Where I live there are social service people who are supposed to help us in situations like this as I'm 77 years old now I was 71 when this happened. But unfortunately Tahoe senior Plaza had just been taken over by a new organization a new nonprofit from some other city that has no idea what's going on here, and when I told the RSC what happened to me in the hospital she literally Shrugged and brushed me away made that gesture a person makes with their arm like go away I don't want to hear about it. that's how they responded. Then covid hit and I was talking to my daughter in LA and we had plans that as soon as soon as the pandemic was over she would come up here and get me. She didn't make it she became a fentanyl addict somewhere down there in LA on the street and I don't even know where she is. Then on top of everything I became too crippled to possibly move or do anything I can't even leave my apartment I have been crippled in here since the Caldpr evacuation When I came back I wasn't able to walk and I haven't been able to walk since. So I started calling nonprofits. everyone said call live violence free when this started and that was the first call I made. but because of covid they really weren't doing much of anything back then. I called the Department of Aging I called here I called there I called Barton and they totally didn't care have never asked a follow up question or for any details about what happened. they told me to report it to the police so I made my police report thinking oh good now I'm going to hear from from Barton but no in fact the whole hospital left town about that time instead I doubt it was because of me but I wonder what else they've done to people that we don't hear about. That's what bothers me the most about this is I was raped in Barton hospital and not one nonprofit or senior Inc or any organization around this town has responded with one iota of concern about it. What kind of place is this where is 71-year-old woman gets raped in the hospital and nobody gives a damn? Now I have this horrible rash on my leg since March 17th when I was outside on the lawn on St Patrick's Day and the pine dust got on a blister or something and it turned into this rash that I still have and I'm hurting and I'm not sleeping at night and I need to go to the doctor and all I want is to not have to go by myself. I Don't feel safe in a doctor's office anymore, the reason I was raped was I'm alone and I don't have any emergency contacts which makes me easy prey for all kinds of abuse; and this is not the friendly welcoming town that you all say it is. I showed up here with my unusual background which is the real reason I think nobody will follow up and help me, they Google my name and find out the crime I was a victim of decades ago and I wrote about it and if you Google my name you find out what it is and I can't believe how many people in the United States side with pedophiles instead of victims. I am a pedophile priest victim from age 5 and at age 71 I am still experiencing rape because of having no family, the same neglect I had as a child I get to have as an old lady. Recently the director of live violence free was at the city council announcing that they had expanded their services so I called them again 6 years after first time and poured out my whole story only to be told, no we don't do that we only accompany people right after they've been raped, so I'm a senior out here expected to be strong enough at age 78 to walk into my rapists' territory and say Here I Am what do you want to do to be now and I can't do that and that is why I put the Volunteer needed post on nextdoor. https://nextdoor.com/p/HtYfW6FSbj-S/?post=483002466&comment=1616504365&s=&is=nrc&ct=bPssZjpHjrgfoHYPtCNav-7t9vXyiQxK8bGTohQZdL8RW__mC6uHH5U63q8IPKYE&ec=OsTQaK5EfsnyavzwbSdG6xCsaFBVDChIdtlFdebAXMw%3D
Post notes:
I can't just go to another doctor as Barton is all there is for miles around
At one point I even got AFS on my side and they recommended that a public health nurse come up to my apartment. That was 2 years ago and my hopes got up so high that the problem was finally solved. Then I had a phone conversation with the nurse and she said and I quote perfectly here: " do you know how far it is to drive from Placerville to South lake?" She informed me that my well-being ain't worth a tank of gas in El Dorado County and that was before today's prices. I think the city should know that that's the kind of treatment we get up here from our County Government.
Expecting me to go back to Barton alone and trust them is like expecting me to go to a Catholic church for help w housing after 10 years of writing about the way they fought the pedophile priest victims. Read my blogs at City of Angels 3 through 12. I've seen the sausage making I can't unsee or unlearn what I know so even though that's probably the only place I could ever find help here, I can't go to St Teresa's either. I have very weird Karma
Perhaps all the nonprofits in the area depend on Barton for grant money and so of course they're not going to investigate this.rape.
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Kate Abilene writing with voice typing
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