Thanks, R300 What do you think of new treatment to "erase" horrible memories?
A friend's dad was bi-polar back in the 1960s with extreme behavior. He received shock treatments at Bellevue. Total disaster. He became a shell of himself.
I'm not sure if the new erasure methods would be like the old shock treatments.
I just don't know how someone gets over the horror of that day. I know several families with loved ones who were murdered but they didn't see their loved ones' bodies in the bloody crime scenes like Marina and maybe, Nessie. The families NEVER got over the loss and trauma.
I think Marina's a bitch and her blog turned me off, especially when she was publicly criticizing whoever left coffee grounds on the coffee maker (The nanny or was there a maid?).
She and her husband came from CA and Marina became one of those women who made her way into the museum scene, which is its own dysfunctional , elitist environment. The Nat'l History Museum (I think that is the museum where Marina volunteered) charges $500 for your kid to spend the night and sleep in a sleeping bag under the big whale.
But it doesn't matter how bitchy Marina was or is, no one deserves to have their innocent babies slaughtered. I just don't want a mistrial. I don't want Marina or the Super or anyone have to get up on the stand again.
I've witnessed the nanny/employer environment in the Upper Westside because I tried it for a year to add income during a rough time (arts/entertainment money fell out due to the bad economy). Warning: DO NOT EVER DO IT. IT'S NOT WORTH IT.
In my situation, it was babysitting a few hours a week for a darling little girl who was a friend in my building. She moved and I switched to her little friend whom I knew. I was watching girl #2 the night the nanny killed the kids. We could hear the helicopter hovering and turned on the news. I had to assure the little girl that I would never ever hurt her like the other nanny.
I had 4 gigs, one leading to another -- One set of parents w/ an adopted girl, the rest all single moms - dad ran away, test-tube baby, single-adoption.
The nannies of the kids who were friends of my charges were all nice women from the Islands. Very, very hard-working. They cooked for their kid, did light housekeeping and worked long hours. The parents all had jobs in an office. The nannies had to ride the subway for more than hour to get home and then cook and care for their own kids
The nannies in the school playground (the PS that Lulu attended) were very suspicious of any newcomers. They didn't understand who I was because I didn't fit the mold. The kids, however, were nice and they accepted me.
My last gig was the psycho boy and his enabling mom. I will NEVER babysit again no matter how desperate I am. It's hard work+ your ego takes a massive hit. I am so grateful to my late parents for being wonderful parents. I would hate to be a modern day kid.
I have to believe that the other neighborhood nannies DID tell their bosses that Ortega was acting odd. Whether their bosses told Marina, I don't know.
Paying cash is normal for babysitters/nannies unless the parents go through an agency or they are deducting taxes. Think Kimba Woods.
Many of these UWS moms are worn-out, social-climbing shrews (although not my friends whose kids I watched). The dads are wimps.
Rich, hedgefund husbands cheat on their wives and everyone knows it. So their wives get manicures and pedicures, starve themselves, go to spin class, yoga class, buy French macarons and cupcakes for the tots, and spend the summer w/ the kids at their Hamptons house.
I have to admit, I haven't seen any hot dads or hot moms. They are too harried.