Re: Desperately Need Child Care Resource - Kim

[Guest guest]

Hi Kim,

That was a great idea to e-mail the universitys. If you receive good responses back I think it would be a great idea to start a data base for our area for child care workers.

Just yesterday evening I posted an ad on the ABAconnections.com site for any ABA worker & consultant to contact our group for parents who need ABA workers. I'm going to start a data base for ABA also.

btw. how are you and your family doing?

~n

johnandkimmyw@... writes:

Dear ,

I'm sorry to hear what you are going through. I'm having a tough time finding help with my 2 year old autistic daughter also. But, here is what I did last night that you could try. I emailed all of the depts of psychology of all the major universities asking for a college volunteer to come and work with my daughter. I haven't heard back from any but I just emailed late last night. I REALLY hope I get a response. If not, I'll go there myself and put up flyers and maybe speak to one of the Deans.

Here are all the univerities and their dept of psychology email addresses:

psychdept@... Case Western Reserve

psychology@... Cleveland State University

gradpsyc@... Kent State Univ.

info@... Baldwin-Wallace

Maybe if we get enough people to email, they will set something up for us. Wouldn't that be great?

Let me know how it goes.

Take care,

[Guest guest]

Hi Kim,

Sorry to hear about your suffering. It sounds like you've been through a lot.

and It sounds like you really need the help. I had a part time nanny for a few weeks when I had back surgery. It worked out real well. Family Services (respite care) paid for the nanny for me. I found the nanny service in the yellow pages and I called McIvor at CCBMR/DD and they set up the nanny service as a vender. I paid up front and Respite care re-imbursed me. The nanny service I used allowed me to use a credit card for payment so I didn't have to worry about having the money on hand. Try a Nanny service - it was a great help and real nice to have someone to talk to too!

I will keep you in my prayers. I hope you feel better soon. (I'm sure you've tried all the common remedies such as prunes and orange juice huh?)

keep in touch,

n

johnandkimmyw@... writes:

Hi n,

Nice to hear from you. And I will let you know if I hear back from the schools. nothing so far. As far as how my family is doing...well, not so good. Brigette, my autistic child, is just slipping away..to me, that is. no one else sees it. I had surgery on mar 2nd to repair a rectocele and rectal prolapse after 8 long months of chronic constipation. don't mean to be graphic but it was the kind where ONLY an enema would work and those quit working after awhile. So my husband, being in a desparate situation because we have no one up here to help, took the girls down to my mother-in-laws. They stayed there for 2 1/2 LONG weeks. I was so depressed during that time because they were gone. It was awful. They would have stayed longer but I insisted we go and get them. Now I'm in a bad prediciment because the surgery was not a success and I'm back to the way I was before the surgery. The nausea and vomiting have returned because of the constipation. My 3 2/1 year old, , is going nuts stuck indoors all day. And I feel so helpless. If I just had someone, ANYONE, to help out. But sadly I have always been too ill to make any friends up here. And we have no family up here.

We did get signed up for respite recently and I called for her to come over Monday when I was vomiting and sick all day but she couldn't because she said we hadn't completed the paperwork. Can you believe that?

So now I'll probably have to have surgery again but this time my babies will NOT leave. I couldn't handle that again. It will kill me. One of our parents will just have to take the time off to come up here. Or I'll probably end up going home to South Carolina for the surgery where my mom lives.

I just don't know what to do. I hope someone responds soon.

I'm not worried about a stranger because I'll be here the whole time. I just can't do it all by myself. Not in my health.

So that's it. Sorry to be so depressing. But that's my life right now. I keep going because of my beautiful babies and I have such a loving and wonderful husband who would be here if he wasn't owned by the government (he's a Marine).

I talked to my husband about going to the AutismOne Conference in May and he seemed interested. If I can get better and we can get someone to watch the girls, we're going.

Take care,

[Guest guest]

Hi n,

Nice to hear from you. And I will let you know if I hear back from the schools.

nothing so far.

As far as how my family is doing...well, not so good. Brigette, my autistic

child, is just slipping away..to me, that is. no one else sees it. I had surgery

on mar 2nd to repair a rectocele and rectal prolapse after 8 long months of

chronic constipation. don't mean to be graphic but it was the kind where ONLY an

enema would work and those quit working after awhile. So my husband, being in a

desparate situation because we have no one up here to help, took the girls down

to my mother-in-laws. They stayed there for 2 1/2 LONG weeks. I was so depressed

during that time because they were gone. It was awful. They would have stayed

longer but I insisted we go and get them. Now I'm in a bad prediciment because

the surgery was not a success and I'm back to the way I was before the surgery.

The nausea and vomiting have returned because of the constipation. My 3 2/1 year

old, , is going nuts stuck indoors all day. And I feel so helpless. If I

just had someone, ANYONE, to help out. But sadly I have always been too ill to

make any friends up here. And we have no family up here.

We did get signed up for respite recently and I called for her to come over

Monday when I was vomiting and sick all day but she couldn't because she said we

hadn't completed the paperwork. Can you believe that?

So now I'll probably have to have surgery again but this time my babies will NOT

leave. I couldn't handle that again. It will kill me. One of our parents will

just have to take the time off to come up here. Or I'll probably end up going

home to South Carolina for the surgery where my mom lives.

I just don't know what to do. I hope someone responds soon.

I'm not worried about a stranger because I'll be here the whole time. I just

can't do it all by myself. Not in my health.

So that's it. Sorry to be so depressing. But that's my life right now. I keep

going because of my beautiful babies and I have such a loving and wonderful

husband who would be here if he wasn't owned by the government (he's a Marine).

I talked to my husband about going to the AutismOne Conference in May and he

seemed interested. If I can get better and we can get someone to watch the

girls, we're going.

Take care,

[Guest guest]

Hi Kim,

Sorry to hear about your suffering. It sounds like you've been

through a lot.

and It sounds like you really need the help. I had a part time nanny

for a few weeks when I had back surgery. It worked out real well.

Family Services (respite care) paid for the nanny for me. I found

the nanny service in the yellow pages and I called McIvor at

CCBMR/DD and they set up the nanny service as a vender. I paid up

front and Respite care re-imbursed me. The nanny service I used

allowed me to use a credit card for payment so I didn't have to worry

about having the money on hand. Try a Nanny service - it was a great

help and real nice to have someone to talk to too!

I will keep you in my prayers. I hope you feel better soon. (I'm

sure you've tried all the common remedies such as prunes and orange

juice huh?)

keep in touch,

n

johnandkimmyw@... writes:

> Hi n,

> Nice to hear from you. And I will let you know if I hear back from

the schools. nothing so far.

> As far as how my family is doing...well, not so good. Brigette, my

autistic child, is just slipping away..to me, that is. no one else

sees it. I had surgery on mar 2nd to repair a rectocele and rectal

prolapse after 8 long months of chronic constipation. don't mean to

be graphic but it was the kind where ONLY an enema would work and

those quit working after awhile. So my husband, being in a desparate

situation because we have no one up here to help, took the girls down

to my mother-in-laws. They stayed there for 2 1/2 LONG weeks. I was

so depressed during that time because they were gone. It was awful.

They would have stayed longer but I insisted we go and get them. Now

I'm in a bad prediciment because the surgery was not a success and

I'm back to the way I was before the surgery. The nausea and vomiting

have returned because of the constipation. My 3 2/1 year old, ,

is going nuts stuck indoors all day. And I feel so helpless. If I

just had someone, ANYONE, to help out. But sadly I have always been

too ill to make any friends up here. And we have no family up here.

> We did get signed up for respite recently and I called for her to

come over Monday when I was vomiting and sick all day but she

couldn't because she said we hadn't completed the paperwork. Can you

believe that?

> So now I'll probably have to have surgery again but this time my

babies will NOT leave. I couldn't handle that again. It will kill me.

One of our parents will just have to take the time off to come up

here. Or I'll probably end up going home to South Carolina for the

surgery where my mom lives.

> I just don't know what to do. I hope someone responds soon.

> I'm not worried about a stranger because I'll be here the whole

time. I just can't do it all by myself. Not in my health.

> So that's it. Sorry to be so depressing. But that's my life right

now. I keep going because of my beautiful babies and I have such a

loving and wonderful husband who would be here if he wasn't owned by

the government (he's a Marine).

> I talked to my husband about going to the AutismOne Conference in

May and he seemed interested. If I can get better and we can get

someone to watch the girls, we're going.

> Take care,

>