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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]PP, are you the one from NOVA?  In case you aren't, and you live in DC, please look into Katie Beckett health care waiver.  I posted about this a few pages back, but in case you missed it, I strongly urge you to see if your kids are eligible.  Even with all the resources at your fingertips, raising a disabled child will never be the same as raising a NT kid, but having social services like KB waiver will definitely help bridge that gap.  Sending big hugs to you.[/quote]

Yes, I'm the PP from NOVA.  I appreciate you posting about the Katie Beckett health care waiver.  Unfortunately, the waitlist in VA is quite long, the funding is quite short for the program we do qualify for and many providers won't accept it.  It's ironic that our kids aren't 'bad' enough for most programs but if we don't do anything now, they will be in future.  I think of it like the unsound tree in your backyard.  Your insurance company won't pay to have it removed but they will pay if it falls on your house.  So, you suck it up and pay the money to have it removed because the thought of it landing on your house is just unacceptable.  Same with our kids.  To do nothing now will mean they have even more, costly problems in the future.  I know a lot of pepole in our same situation.[/quote]

So, sadly, PP gets no help. Point made. Pages and pages of people talking about all of the resources and help out there and that that should have no bearing on a decision to keep or not to keep the child. In theory it all sounds good and then when you try to get the help you just don't qualify, you deal with wait lists and so on....[/quote]

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