This is the part I twigged on: “Fitzgerald denied that claim, telling News 6 that she tried to pay October rent but was denied…” the entire thing is fishy. I was witness to an almost identical event involving a relative who was nearly as old and was a passive-aggressive manipulator right up until the end. Not saying that the woman in the article was manipulative, as none of us really knows, other than the nursing home and because of HIPAA rules they can not say the real situation.
Generally, nursing homes will keep residents for as long as they can. If she was saying afterwards that she did not need donations, it speaks to the fact that she might not have been poor. This could have been, like in my own relative’s situation, that the nursing home staff was at their wit’s end with the resident. That she’s saying she had money and they STILL wanted her out… That’s a HUGE red flag that the resident is problematic.
My own relative was caught lying repeatedly to the point where the home had to double up staff when they interacted with her because she would claim her property was being stolen or things didn’t show in the mail that she claimed had arrived…(Had to call the person who was sending the item and in fact, it was still on his kitchen table waiting to be mailed…)
The final line she crossed was that she had a Medtronic pump for her pain meds and she refused to give up the bolus that she’d dose herself with. They had their own scheduling for medications and of course with that, timing is everything so there was no control… She was put into a police car against her will and sent to her home. Was so aggro with the cops they threatened to book her for disruptive behavior. Bounced right back into a different facility that had a bit more robust drug control policy and within a few short months got busted for smoking in her room… with a roommate in the bed next to her that was on oxygen.
That was a fiasco of spectacular proportions. The temper tantrum she had after they turfed her room and took all the cigarette lighters and matches was thermonuclear and involved no less than half a dozen policemen trying to get her sorted.
When you deal with seniors that are really old, you CAN sometimes be dealing with someone that isn’t going to play nice.
The thing that leads me to think she might have been/is a toxic person, is that I could not find a single follow up to her story.
No family came out of the woodwork to explain her situation and defend it… no social care workers saying they found her accommodation elsewhere… just nothing.
Which… is unusual for a story like this.
Not even an obituary for someone with her name that would be of the right age.
Hmmm. Red flags all over this one. Will likely never know for sure.