What makes me being raped at age 71 in the local hospital even worse than it sounds is I came to Tahoe to recover from a 20-year period of advocating and posting blog posts about the pedophile priest crimes in the Catholic church. It says so right at the top of my medical file, that I was already a rape victim at age 5. Don't get me started about re-traumatization but that was not the only two times in my life I've been raped. So when it happened to me again as an old woman in a hospital and then nobody in the entire Community for hundreds of miles who knew about it responded in any way, it made it twice as bad. at least twice exponentially more than twice as bad. My situation is unusual and requires an unusual response and everyone is so afraid of losing their funding or being sued that they don't take any out of ordinary step, even phone somebody like me back,
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Old people get raped too
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 ...
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Old people get raped too part two
There is an organization in Reno that could help but they need volunteers who live in this area and to be honest I feel more comfortable working through an organization and the volunteers probably do too. The group is seniors in service and they are part of Americorps and when I spoke to them yesterday
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