again and the need to ramble/vent

February 7, 2006

Hi, all,

Things seem to shift here daily if not hourly, so I haven't taken the time to

go through my recent posts. It's sufficient to say that the " bird " from whom

we wanted to rent announced yesterday morning that she would not do so

because the proposed housemate's mother has never bothered to

appear. I can't argue with that at all.

Yesterday and today I had calls from said parent but just let the machine

pick up. Even though Andy and I had talked with her over the weekend,

she claimed to be terribly ill --- this only after our case manager said that

we didn't want the young women to be housemates and the landlord

announced that she wouldn't rent to the parent.

So, we're in limbo --- with no services. The Regional Center refuses to

set up another 1 person ISL (though certainly has the funds for it),

so we have to find a housemate. Confidentiality is the problem here. No

one can give us names; everything must go through channels. Not only

that, we were supposed to start " training " 's new staff (basically

informally) this week, but the Medicaid Waiver apparently won't fund that

until we have a house. Meanwhile, I called the other landlord with a house

we liked (parent of a child with a disability) and set up a lease signing for

next Monday at 4:00, only to learn after speaking with her (by the way, she

left for Mexico yesterday) that our case manager may have found another

possible housemate...who already has a house and thus I should put off

signing a lease. I feel as though my head is a shambles.

is in grand form, though she seems to find it odd that Andy is

napping this afternoon and is now in bed with him, 1 dog, and three cats.

Things are really awful. I guess I know how to set up adult services

now, but I'm simply floored by some of the parents. You know, I've

promised to write about how we've accomplished what we have (i.e.,

funding, etc.), but I am beginning to think that one basic goal must be to

identify possible housemates while our kids are still in school. This was

impossible to do for us, I guess, because was at Perkins for 7 years

and we lost track of people locally.

Martha --- time to get all of my critters awaks

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