Double Wammy and a Single Bright Note

Well, it hasn’t gotten any better yet, in fact, it has gotten worse.  I got news yesterday that usdb is on the chopping block too.  I am even more upset about this because through all of this Oakridge stuff going on, will and I felt like Mitch would be ok as long as he had his intervener.  if usdb goes as well, we might as well keep Mitch at home.  the legislators want the school districts to pick up the services that usdb provide now, but what a joke?  our district wants to shut down our special school for our special children!  they won’t care about making sure Mitch has an intervener, much less spending money to train someone to communicate with my deaf blind child!  I am so frustrated that it is always the special education to get cut first.  I guess one good thing about all of this is my public speaking skills are, well, still no better.  ha!  I’m getting a lot of practice though.  Here is the article if you want to read it… and if you want to help, please contact our legislators and tell them what a negative impact this would have on these children. 

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705366242/Utah-Schools-for-the-Deaf-and-the-Blind-could-take-hit-as-committee-talks-deep-cuts.html

on a brighter note… we thought for s**** and giggles we would try to apply for ssi again.  just to see what would happen.  its been years since we’ve qualified for that… wow we really have gone back to the days when we first brought Mitch home… anyway, we took all of our paper work over to the ssa building and sat down with the lady and an hour later we were setting it all up.  mind you, this is the exact information we have given to Medicaid over and over and over… oh!  what?  finally someone sees that we actually had a significant loss and no income showing on our taxes!  huh?  is workforce services actually that dumb!?!  I think so.  This made us oh so happy because, like we told the lady at ssa, all we want is insurance for our son.  guess what?  we got it!  if you qualify for ssi, you automatically qualify for Medicaid!  yeah!  Mitch finally has insurance!  What a weight off my back.