Here's the short version (hang on; it's a bumpy ride):
- The non-graduation
- "I don't have any friends"
- No support for postsecondary education from VR
- Denied Medicaid
- Targeted for the Support Services Medicaid Waiver
- Not eligible for the Support Services Waiver
- Pulling the rug out from under my Fundamental Assumptions about benefits, the waiver and services
- The Rent-a-Friend semi-solution
- Much needed vacation
- Enrolling at Ivy Tech
- "Flunking" Ivy Tech's Compass "placement" tests
- "Passing" the Compass tests
- Gone fishin'
- John Hancocking a bazillion forms when you have fine motor challenges
- Red tape--there oughta be a law.
- Starting classes at Ivy Tech
- Zeroing in on the primary objective, a.k.a. "This is not meeting my expectations!"
- Searching for supports
- Leaving work early to play taxi
- Disillusioned, disheartened and discouraged with Indiana benefits
- No peer mentoring for Ivy Tech Welcome Week
- This is a web-based class?
- Dropping a class
- New ruling: a 529 educational savings plan held in a parent's name does not necessarily mean you are denied Medicaid. "You should reapply."
- To jump through hoops or not jump through hoops? That is the question.
Stay tuned. I'll flesh out a few of the details.
