myguys_sam_dean (myguys_sam_dean) wrote in 7_days, @ 2007-10-12 01:49:00 |
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Current mood: | frustrated |
Entry tags: | original, prompt 5 |
A Mother's Frustration
Title: A Mother's Frustration
Author: myguys_sam_dean
Rating: PG
Summary: Written for 7 days prompt - frustration. Just the things that frustrate me while I raise my son with special needs.
It seems like each week I have another battle to get my son the services I need. Sometimes I battle with insurance companies, pharmacies and referrals. Other times it is the school system that isn't providing him with all the services deemed necessary in his Individual Education Plan. I get so frustrated when I have to make calls to ensure he gets the services that I have already fought for. I fought for the services, the school agreed, and yet they still don't provide the services unless I keep on them and even go as far as call Advocacy and Protection. It shouldn't be like that.
Sometimes the argument is about respite care. I have a contract for a certain amount of hours that Human Social Services has determined that we need and are entitled to. Yet, I need to keep calling the respite care agency to get the hours covered. That is not my job. It is their job to cover the hours, I am not supposed to have to worry about it. Yet, I do, because the hours aren't covered and I don't get the breaks that I need.
It doesn't matter what you have on paper, even though you fight like hell to get it. It is even harder to get it enforced and provided.