Le people know your wishes.

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All my friend needed to do was tell the people on her son's team - the

county MR, the ISP team, IEP team, family doctor what sshe wanted. She

only left our name with the family doctor whom the cornor called.

OTherwise, our boy would have landed at one of the institutions that this

area is dotd with " temporarily " .

Last night was the MEmorial Service. There were community people, people

from the " team " , church people, school people. I counted almost 40 people.

Nice.

The best part was our boy and Elie, sitting togehter, holding hands, hugging

each other - Elie with his mirror of course and with a big grin. We

had told the boys that this was a meeting to celebrate our boy's mom. They

figured it was a birthday party and wanted food! We did go out to eat

after.

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

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>To:

>Subject: Re: Single parent alert

>Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:32:01 -0800 (PST)

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>Hi Sara,

> What tragic news. You are a good friend for taking her son temporarily.

>I couldn't think of a better person he should be with at this difficult

>time. Parents that cannot afford a will can write a short description of

>their wishes and have it notarized for free at their local bank. It's

>better than nothing.

> Charlyne

> Mom to Zeb 13 DS/OCD/ASD?

>

>sara cohen wrote:

> Mionday, a friend of 17 years passed away. Her 21yo son with DS was home

>alone when her work called to ask why she had not called in to work. HEr

>son replied, " Well Mom is dead right here with me! " ..

>

>Long story of police, cornor, family doctor, and finally I was called

>----she left no available info on next of kin or her plans for the future.

>Nothing listed with the county in whcih we lived - no PLAN!!!!!

>

>The son is now living with me while we try to work on a future plan. No

>guardian, no POA, no plan. Today is NOT to late to make a plan - and

>communicate it to your doctor, the school, the local police department,

>family, friends, etc.

>

>NOW - not TOMORROW - NOW!!!!!

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>Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

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