A cynic, according to the wonderful Oscar Wilde is, “A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” (Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act III) Well certainly almost everything has a price but it is important to know its value. In order for us to attend 21′s graduation on Friday we had [...]
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12 will be 13 in August and I still worry if I’m parenting her in the best way possible. You may remember that I lived in dread of taking 12 to Surrey for assessment incase they replied with, “we’re keeping her.” I lived in dread of being called to go to the assessment in [...]
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Yesterday 12 went to respite. I can hear you, how could I write about people with special needs being better at home if I send my child to respite? Well, for one thing, I was talking about the still prevalent view from many professionals that living away from the family home is always the best thing [...]
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Yesterday 12′s community nurse paid her monthly visit. Apart from chatting about how the visit to Surrey had gone and how the appeal for further respite funding was going the nurse mentioned that 12′s consultant has been referring a number of children to the Surrey centre. This wasn’t news, the consultant told me that herself, [...]
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Surrey. © L McG-E. All rights reserved. (Click on name to see on black in lightroom.) Which more or less sums up things for us. Two sets of funding has been requested for two separate things, so I get to do some overlapping waiting, which saves on energy, let’s me conserve my fretting resources. Waiting [...]
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