Page number of linked textframe in indesign document

Hi,
My indesign document has linked pages 1 - 10 (ie., linked textframes). I want to take page number of selected text from 5th page., which textframe is linked textframe of 1st page. When i use the following code for findpage, its returning the page no 1 instead of 5.
Kindly reply for me...
var page = findPage(app.selection[0]);    // selection is a word/para
function findPage(theObj)
    var thePage = theObj;
    if (thePage.hasOwnProperty("baseline"))
        thePage = thePage.parentTextFrames[0];
    while (thePage.constructor.name != "Page")
        var whatIsIt = thePage.constructor.name;
        switch (whatIsIt)
            case "Story" :
                thePage = thePage.textFrames[-1].parent;
                break;
            case "Character" :
                thePage = thePage.parentTextFrames[0];
                break;
            case "Cell" :
                if ( thePage.insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames[0] == null)
                    // contents of cell is overset
                    thePage = tryHarderForCell(thePage);
                    if (thePage == null) return null;
                    break;
                else
                    thePage = thePage.insertionPoints[0].parentTextFrames[0];
                    break;
            case "Application" :
            return null;
        thePage = thePage.parent;
    return thePage ;

Hi,
Thank u... Its working...

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