Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Transition Boot Camp

It's been a heckuva transition summer. This post should be subtitled What I Did This Summer and Why I Need a Vacation.

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.
Caught up yet? And this is just for one of our children. I need a swig o' Pepto after just rereading the summer summary.  

Stay tuned. I'll flesh out a few of the details. 




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