On March 12 2018, Jay stepped out of his six bedroom home in Snoqualmie Ridge, after seeing Omana’s on-duty live-in nurse Ms. Ashley Redican CNA, a very experienced and credentialed CNA approved by DSHS to take care of patients in Omana’s condition, in charge of starting her morning routine, present at home by her side along with the live-in maid Ms. Alexandria Hall (who also has some experience working with seniors). In addition to Ms. Redican, Jay had also hired Ms. Karina Conspicion CNA, as a visiting nurse for helping with her care. He had found both these registered CNAs using a paid membership at a qualified premium site www.care.com, which many (if not most) nursing homes also use for hiring their staff. This is in addition to three therapists from Providence Health, coming to home three time a week each for Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy, to ensure Omana was getting the best possible Gold Standard of care at a luxury home that money can buy, on top of deep love and affection from Family. Their contact details are here.

Omana was happily in her bed watching a Malayalam TV serial. Ms. Redican, as can be seen from her statement, had started her feeding after completing her medications, and stepped out for a quick errand leaving her with Ms. Hall. Soon after, Ms. Hall went to a neighbor (who lives a couple of blocks away, and had never met with the family before and did not even know of Omana’s existence thitherto) to borrow a blender, and the neighbor somehow suspected that Ms. Hall could be potentially asking for the blender to crush illegal drugs. Therefore she called Snoqualmie Police and reported Ms. Hall as a suspicious person, as can be seen from the Police Report.

The cop went to the house and seeing Omana, was completely confused as to her condition, imagining that she was a 99 year old who had her Colostomy bag lying on the floor, while the fact was she has never had a Colostomy and he was fooled by her urine bag. Therefore he transported her to Swedish Medical Hospital, where Dr. Nayak evaluated her and found her (Medical Report) to be “at her baseline, well appearing and well hydrated, skin is very well cared for, no signs of trauma and neglect”. He also spoke with Jay when he arrived at the hospital, and determined that “son seems to be very well caring and well-informed about her care”. A better endorsement for her level of private care was hard to be imagined from a Doctor meeting him for the first time. He declined Officer Fischbeck’s request to hold her at the hospital until DSHS investigated, as there was no reason to hold her there, and released her back to home with Jay and Ashley on the same evening. Jay even sent out an email thanking Mr. Fischbeck for coming out to check on his house.

Several weeks later however, he received a notice of arraignment from Issaquah Municipal Court on a criminal charge of “Abandonment in the Third Degree of a Dependent Person”. Even though there was a statement from her certified caregiver that she along with the maid were present at home when Jay had stepped out, the prosecutor purposely did not dismiss the case until 17 months later on July 10, 2019, under the pressure from DSHS-Adult Protection Services, who wanted to place a guardianship on Omana. They sent a letter to Jay accusing him (ONLY) of hiring unqualified caregivers from Craigslist, although this was entirely false, as can be seen from his declaration submitted in response. However, based on the open abandonment criminal charge at that time, APS took Omana into custody at Harborview hospital, and moved King County Superior Court for a Vulnerable Adult Protection Order against Nair. Please note the ONLY allegation from APS against Nair was he did not hire qualified caregivers, when as the primary caregiver himself, all he needed to hire was on live-in certified caregiver as a respite for him.

Very perturbed by these unwanted efforts from APS to “protect” her, Omana herself made a declaration that she loved to stay at her son’s home, and that she did not wish to have any guardianship or assistance from APS. Based on statute RCW 74.34.067(7), her declaration blatantly rejecting APS protection makes any proceeding from thereon moot by definition. Furthermore, a clinical psychologist Dr. Janice Edwards had conducted a mental evaluation of Omana to determine if she was mentally capable, and in her detailed report she states that “Omana was able to give her location and time, hold a conversation, as well as answer general knowledge questions like ‘who was the previous president of USA’ and arithmetic questions like ‘how much is 50 X 11’. She responded that she understood all the Court proceedings and vociferously rejected the idea of having a third party guardian as she loved her son and loved living at their home.” Her report categorically proves that despite her physical disability, Omana was not mentally disabled at least in Malayalam.

APS investigator Mr. Randy Wilson made several materially false allegations in the VAPA complaint, signed under the penalty of perjury, such as that “when the police arrived on 3/12, he saw Ms. Thankamma was lying on the floor, with strong stench of urine and fecal matter”. However, the underlying police report that the complaint references, states the polar opposite: that Ms. Thankamma was found lying in her (hospital bed, which the cop called as futon) and “her bedding was fresh and clean”. Albeit the fact Ms. Jennifer Boharski, the Assistant Attorney General representing DSHS, had plainly admitted the “mistake” in her opening brief and admitted in the Court that those verbiage was taken from a different file, Commissioner Judson still did not allow Jay to make a sworn-in testimony, and signed a 5 year VAPO that would prevent Jay from “removing her from any facility”, albeit it did not have any other restrictions on his visitations etc.

Based on this VAPO, DSHS then immediately applied to the Court for appointing a guardian for Omana. Jay hired an attorney Mr. Greg McBroom, who suggested that this may be a “blessing in disguise” for him as it could relieve him from the huge financial responsibility of having to pay for her private insurance from Molina, and for two live-ins, as well as for private therapies and Botox injections etc, all of which were being borne out of his pocket entirely as her paltry $300 pension was not even sufficient for her co-pay. He therefore entered into a lengthy negotiations discussion with Ms. Boharski, which resulted in a settlement that provided for the following:

(a) Omana would be kept at a facility within 25 miles of Jay’s home so he can visit her everyday, (b) there would be no change in her code status without consulting Family, (c) guardian will apply for her citizenship so she can become eligible to receive medicare, so that she can be returned to live with her son with full medicare benefits or get her care at a qualified facility, and (d) she would be permitted to go with her son to attend religious ceremonies, social activities, and to visit their home occasionally so she can maintain her mental stimulation for which she depended on her son. All of these conditions were accepted, and therefore Family entered into a negotiated settlement with DSHS allowing one Ms. Channa Copeland to become her guardian.

Little did they know, they had been betrayed into an abominable bait-n-switch scam, or that Ms. Copeland is a power-tripping psychopath who wants to do “pro-bono” guardianship only to satiate her own mental inadequacies. Everything she has done since coming into picture has been trying to hurt Omana the most.