Small Victory!

We(or rather, I) have been really pushing the county to add Andrew to Collin's respite hours. Andrew is supposed to qualify, just based on his speech delay & getting approved for speech therapy. With respite hours, Tom & I get a break from Collin and get reimbursed by the county what we paid the babysitter. Only catch is the babysitter has to be at least 18 yrs old & have a SS #. Currently we have 18 hours per month for Collin.

The people who determine services said no about combining hours for the boys, and when I met w/Collin's service coordinator a couple weeks ago, she said they(she & Andrew's coordinator) weren't even going to try to ask again until October. That wasn't acceptable and I tried to figure out what options we had. As a last resort, I asked if I could get hours for Andrew, separate from Collin's. It means I'd have to pay the babysitter twice, but I know I need those hours once Tom's gone in a month & a half.

When we got back from our trip, I got a phone message from Andrew's service coordinator. She was supposed to call before we left. Andrew has his own hours now, 12 per month. I totally credit this to part of the Father's blessing I got from my dad on Friday night.