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.