No Money After All

I finally got a chance to go to the web site that Mrs. Binger sent to me. It is the one I referred to previously about getting up to $5000 for speech, occupational and physical therapy for Calen. Well, in order to qualify Calen must be covered under some type of COMMERCIAL insurance. If an applicant is covered under Medicare or Medicaid, they automatically don't qualify. I don't quite understand the concept in behind that. I was disappointed. The grant is through United Health Care. I will get on the phone today or Monday to find speech and occupational therapists that will accept Medicaid. Otherwise, my son will continue with absolutely nothing (accept the few activities I do with him) until school starts back in August. I'm hoping to get him and Kylia into the CP center in Sheffield during the school year. I don't know for sure about Kylia just yet. It will all work out somehow.

I need to make more things for him that will help his fine motor skills. I don't want to spend money on something I can make at home out of everyday things. I'm just not a very creative person when it comes to things like that. He really enjoys stringing things, so I bought some gluten-free penne at Wal-Mart and I have some old shoe strings. I haven't tried it yet, but I hope it works. I also want to get him things that link together. I want to do therapeutic things with him that BOTH the kids can enjoy and learn from. When I was telling the OT lady Calen used to see (Britta from Helen Keller) about how hard it was to spend some one-on-one time with Calen doing activities because Kylia tends to get a little jealous, she actually said that Kylia will just have to "get over it". Spoken like a true woman whose never raised children. I don't want to exclude one child or make one of my babies feel like the can't play with me and the other one. It breaks my heart to think of purposefully excluding one of my children when they want to join in. We're a FAMILY...we are ONE. I love my babies.