Deep Dive Down Memory Lane

 I'm Saving this Meme coz I really do want to get some of these made up for my Funeral, I Laughed my Ass off when a Friend sent it to me coz she immediately thought of me when she saw it!  She knows I would totally do this!!!  My Kids think it's a Great Idea... The Man knows it would totally go with my Over-The-Top Gaudy Gypsified Coffin I chose and prepaid for, festooned with Bright Roses and Huge Virgin Of Guadalupe Images, my Family & Friends know me well!  *LOL and Winks*  Glad that The Man and I got everything out of the way early we were doing and had an early Luncheon at "Applebee's" coz it got to 112 by 3:00 p.m. when I picked the Grandchild up from her Work!  {See Below and also how terribly Dusty the Air is coz of all the damned Construction going on around our Community!} She said it was so sweltering in the Back at Work that she'd been joking with her Older Female Co-Workers about how Hot their Receiving Room was.  The Older Ladies were saying how bad their Backs were Sweating and Princess T responds, "Well, I got Toilet Paper between my Titties!"   And everyone Laughed their Asses off.  She has got an unexpected Wicked Sense of Humor for an Introvert, I'll give her that!  *Smiles*

I'd brought The Man with me to do Environmental Cleanup at One Park, he sat at a Ramada in the Shade near the Manmade Lake and Splash Pad for the Children, which cooled off that part of the Park coz of the Water and Spray from it.  I picked up my Check and my Loving Cup Gift from Friend Amy at the Antique Mall, foofed my Showroom a bit, put some Pokemon Cards in the Locked Case and a Vintage Globe in the Showroom.  Then traded in my Aluminum Cans at the Recycle Center.  Then we had our Luncheon of the Appetizer Platters they have on Sale.  I had the Garlic Parmesan Boneless Wings, very heavy on the lovely Garlic... and Two Orders of the Wonton Chicken Tacos in mine.

The Man had Onion Rings, Riblets, and the Battered Shrimp in his.  I swear I'll smell like I'm warding off Vampires with my Breath all day now but the Garlic Parmesan Boneless Wings were fragrant and deliciously divine!  I'd never ordered that flavor before and would definitely order it again.  All their selection of flavors I've ever had have been excellent tho' and I Love their Homemade Ranch Dip to dip my Celery Sticks into.  I had the Strawberry Lemonade with a Free Refill, Love their Lemonades too there.  The Man has been enjoying getting out and about a bit again now that he's built his Stamina and Strength up enuf to after the Heart Attack and Surgery, then Rehab Period.  He's still got Cardiac Rehab to go tho', at the Hospital.

 

Now that I Ordered some Online Old Yearbooks from my Overseas High School I'd gathered up all other Yearbooks I had.  Not just my own, I've Collected Vintage Yearbooks, both Local ones and Antique or Vintage ones from any School.  They can actually be worth a lot of Money to someone wanting to replace theirs or who never got one when they were in School.  I've Resold many myself and usually find them at Chazzas, likely Donated after the Owner of them Dies and the Family Donates it becoz they don't wanna Keep it as part of the Family History.  I like looking back at the Fashions, Hairstyles, Nostalgia of every Era they were Preserving among their Pages of High School or College Life in various parts of the Country or American Military Schools Abroad.  And of coarse I Cherish the ones with all my Childhood Friends, and all the Wonderful Memories, it doesn't seem like so much Time and History has passed sometimes.  Okay, so Who was your biggest High School Crush?  The Man and I swap Stories about ours.  His Mom ended up remarrying after his Dad Died, and shocker, she Married the Dad of one of his Old Girlfriends in High School!  So, now, technically, they're Step-Siblings, Right?  *Bwahahaha LMAOROTF*   Below was my biggest and hardest Crush by the High School Years:

Then

Now... Yeah, that Lovely Lady got my High School Crush, but she is Top Shelf and Aged Well too!   I Respectfully defer.  *LOL*

My biggest Crush in High School was on my Friend Jackie's Older Brother Charles.  {See Above Then and Now, he's Aged Well and is an A-OOhga Silver Fox, as Blog Friend Shirley would say, at over 70 now.}  Jackie was such a Fun Friend and I never actually got to meet her Brother in Person, coz he was Older and I would have Spazzed and Geeked Out as a Tween does. *Ha ha ha*  But I knew her Older Sister Terry, who was such a Fashionista, I wanted to BE Terry when I Grew Up!  *LOL*  So, I definitely was Fan Girling Terry too, since Jackie and I were aspiring to be budding Fashionistas, but Terry had it Down and was so Sassy and such a Boss in High School.  We looked up to Terry, she was Bad Ass.  We were geeky Underclassmen. *LOL*  Their Mom was British too and had also Married an American G.I. of Color.  Their Dad was so Handsome and their Mom so Pretty, they got the Beautiful People Genes, Smiles, so all Four of their Kids were good looking too.  *LOL*  One of her Brother Charles' Daughters looks so much like her Aunt Jackie that I'd of thought it was Jackie's Daughter!!!

Jackie

Terry

Charles' Beautiful Daughters, the one on the Left looks so much like her Aunt Jackie did in High School!   Her with her Dad {Below}.

I didn't Date in High School, I just had Crushes on some Guys.  *Smiles*  But all the Popular Guys were my Posse, so my Female Friends Loved that.  I could make the Introductions to the Guys they liked.  I was like one of the Guys, which, is NOT conducive to being asked out on Dates.  *Ha ha ha, I was in the Friend Zone*  But, I didn't mind, coz those Friendships with all my Male Friends usually lasted way longer than Romantic Relationships would have, often for a Lifetime, which was better.  Anyway, I feel I was destined to meet and end up with The Man, so all is as it should be.  I had more Guy Friends than Gal Friends when I met The Man and likewise, he had more Female Friends than Male Friends.  So, neither of us minded the other one having so many Friends of the Opposite Sex. I've never seen a problem with that, but a lot of Couples do.  Often The Man became Friends with my Male Friends and got along with them really well, becoz I've always had great Friends who were Ride or Die with me, Protective of me, and stayed in my Inner Circle like Brothers from other Mothers. 

Sandy

Barb

Yava

Renee

Julie

One of the Gals I knew from my American High School Overseas, Sandy, went on to become Miss Georgia in the Miss America Beauty Pageant.  {See Above}  Of coarse all of the Four Eakes Sisters were Gorgeous, even as Teens, so I wasn't Surprised, Nice Girls too, Beautiful Inside and Out.   Two of my Friends, Barb and Yava, became Homecoming Queen in their Senior Year.  {See Above}  And I do remember thinking it was gonna be my Friend Renee who would be one of the Underclassmen Attendants at Homecoming, but she got beat out by another Friend of ours, Julie, to be our Class Attendant for Homecoming. Both just the Sweetest Girls that everyone liked so much, so casting of Votes had to be close I figured.  I was conflicted on who to cast my Vote for, you could only Vote once.  Renee was the Quieter Introverted Friend, who didn't even seem to realize she was so Beautiful.   So I confess I Voted for her, since Julie was involved in everything and I was pretty sure she'd get a lot of Votes and didn't Need mine.

Then

Kathy Now

Above is a Then and Now of my BFF whose been my Bestie since we were Tweens, Kathy.  A different BFF Kathie than the one that just Passed Away in May, who I met as a Young Adult in Arizona.  I've just known a lot of Good Friends with the same First Name, tho' sometimes different Spellings of it.  *Smiles*  Some Names are madly popular during different Eras and so you know a lot of people with that Name.  Kathy and I met coz we lived right Next Door to each other on Glebe Close in the American Projects Housing in Thetford, England and went to High School together, becoming Besties.  Her Parents were also an Interracial Intercultural Union, her Dad a White American G.I. and her Mom a Filipina.  Her Mom was stunningly Beautiful and a lovely Person, sadly she Died quite Young, both of our Moms got Cancer, mine Survived it, hers Sadly didn't.  I got along so good with the Moms of my Best Friends, often their Moms were like Friends once we became all Grown.  Kathy and I will be BFF's until the day we Die.  She's Beautiful Inside and Out and has been like a Big Sister to me for well over Fifty Years. 

Above is my Brother and I in High School Mug Shots of that Era in Time.  My Brother was 6'4" by High School, so towered over most Guys and he had the Best Hair, the Color of a Raven's Wing, thick and wavy, more like our Mom's Hair.  My Dad had the very Straight Blue Black Hair of his People, I just got the Straightness, my Hair had trouble even holding a Perm... which, was a Thing for a while and I had a loose Fro' going on for a portion of my Teens and early Adulthood.  *Ha ha ha*  I'd had very long Straight Hair all my Life so I liked the Change.  My Friends didn't, especially my Guy Friends didn't, they couldn't Imagine why I'd cut my extremely long Hair off that they Admired and apparently Loved?!  *Smiles, who knew?!*   At one point my Hair reached way past my Hips, I Sold it to a Wig Maker who used it to make Human Hair Wigs... my Mom Cried!  *I can understand Why now... at the time I thought she was being Silly.*  I did the same each time my Granddaughters each cut off all their Lady Godiva-Rapunzel length Beautiful Hair.  *LOL*

RIP Young Tommy Leal

Sadly, one of the Guys we knew, Tommy, tragically Died in High School while running Track & Field.  He was only 16 and didn't know he had a Heart Defect, he'd even passed the required Physicals to engage in Team Sports and he'd been very Athletic and a Star Athlete from a very Young Age.  He was Handsome, Popular and well liked by everyone, so I remember it being such a shock when it happened.  That same Year Tommy Died so suddenly and tragically, another Young 16 Year Old Female Student, Jo Austin, Died tragically of a Brain Aneurysm.  She'd just had a Bad Headache at School and Died on the Bus Ride on the way Home!!!   They never got to Marry, have a Family, cut short before they even attained Adulthood.  Life is very Fragile like that and Old Age is a Privilege not afforded to many, so I don't take it for Granted I've been Afforded the Privilege of Growing Old.   But, most Memories are Sweet, Nostalgic and Good that we choose to remember fondly and savor for a Lifetime.  I try not to recall any that were Bad and dwell too long on them.

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I Hope you enjoyed the Deep Dive with me my Friends... Memories should be Sweet & Savored for a Lifetime... Dawn... The Bohemian

Don't Threaten Me... Or Us... With A Good Time

 I was binge watching a new Reality Cop Cam Series with The Man that we just discovered... "Crime In Progress" with Raw Body Cam and Dash Cam or Surveillance Footage.  It follows the evolution of Crimes in Real Time, exactly as it happened, and I like it has no re-enactments or narration, which, I often find annoying, to be Truthful.  Granted, some Shows I like the Retired Narrator of, like Homicide Hunter Lt. Joe Kenda of Colorado Springs, he's a Hoot.   At 79 Years Old he's dryly Funny to me how he retells Serious Stories of his long Career Investigating 387 Homicide Cases, Solving 356, a Closure Rate of 92% which is so Impressive!  He's got a Wicked Sense of Humor, I know I'd like that Guy and would never tire of his Storytelling of actual Events he spent a Career doing. 

I guess The Man and I like those types of shows becoz both of us had some firsthand experience in our long Careers with Law Enforcement.  In between his very long 39 Year Military Career he did work for a time as a Beat Cop in the Hill District of Pittsburgh and as an Undercover Narcotics Cop infiltrating Outlaw Biker Gangs.  Yeah, he's an Adrenalin Junkie like that, but after Vietnam there wasn't many Career switches for a Special Ops Sniper with a high Body Count, except the Mob or Law Enforcement.  *Winks*  And eventually he just went back to a Military Career, switching from the Marines, to the Army, as a Field Medic, and eventually to the Air Force as an Electronics Technician.  After Retiring from a Bank Executive Career he sent my Resume' in {unbeknownst to me} to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, and thus began my 2nd Career and Corporate Life.  And what a Wild Ride it was!!!  *LOL*

Okay, so my Beloved's "Reasoning" for Secretly sending in my Resume' to a Job I had Zero Experience in, like Criminal Law, was Twofold.  First and foremost, in Retirement I was driving The Family Crazy.  I don't do Retirement well, and you can only Clean a Home so much before you get Bored out of your Mind and start then Picking on Loved Ones about messing it up again.  Getting on everyone's last Nerve.  *LOL and Winks*  They thought perhaps I'd catch a Homicide Charge if they didn't lure me out of Retirement somehow with a Challenge.  *Smiles*  Secondly, The Man felt I was far too Macabre to just have been a Bank Executive and call it a day.  He felt confident one of the largest DA's Offices in the Country would just be Perfect for Yours Truly. *LMAO, ahhh, I just Love that Man!!! Smiles*

 Handling all the Criminal Trial Closeouts of all the Bureaus from Homicide on down to any other Bureau's Felonious Files, and doing the Internal Audit of such before they were Archived.  I had no Idea what that all even was when they Hired me!  I went in Cold and apparently my Resume' impressed them enuf they didn't even Interview me, just one day he told me, "Oh Honey, you have a New Career, the DA's Office just Hired you!"  That isn't hyperbole, I sat there on Day One not even knowing what I'd gotten myself into... or more accurately, The Man had gotten me into!  There I was at Orientation with Rick Romley, the DA, Welcoming me and asking me what I'd be doing?  And I say "Criminal Trial Closeouts" like I had any Idea what the Hell that was or would entail!  *Bwahahahaha*  Talk about Earning while you Learn!  The Man felt it would be an excellent Challenge for Yours Truly... him not knowing Real Estate Law does not = Criminal Law as a seamless Career Change... but, whatever.  *LMAOROTF*

   He wasn't Wrong, it was far less Dry or Boring than Real Estate Law.  Tho' it didn't pay remotely what I'd been used to Earning as a Bank Executive, but the Benefits were Excellent and he had very astronomically high Medical Bills at the time, which were kinda wiping out and blowing my Retirement Planning quickly.  But, an unusual Crossover.  *Bwahahaha*  And, I did do very well there and ended up Processing most of the higher profile Cases that Co-Workers shied away from, for a variety of reasons.  Not everyone that came to Work in that Position was up for experiencing the Files from some Bureaus like Homicide, Sex Crimes, or Family Violence, or Vehicular {which often included Vehicular Homicide and some very graphic stuff to see and not be able to unsee}.   I once had a Double Homicide File Defendant whose Name on the File was "Lucifer The Devil"... I got Stories like Kenda's!  *LOL*

You do have to know you've got the Stomach for exposure to Crime Files of all kinds, and then be able to go have a Sammich without puking or having incessant Nightmares about the Files and Crimes.  And interestingly to me, most Co-Workers washed out quickly, many never made it thru the Probation Periods of 90 Days!  We had a low retention rate, most just walked off the Job coz it Got to them.  Most had Masters Degrees in Criminal Law too, so huge Student Loan Debt and then realizing they weren't cut out for that Line of Work.  At least I didn't have that hanging over my Head.  I just went in Cold and caught on, since, I tend towards Immersive Learning.  Where something New but fascinating enuf, will kick in my ability to absorb the knowledge quickly and efficiently.  I'm kinda an Idiot Savant of sorts like that sometimes.  *LOL, Seriously* 

 Some things click in my Head like that, so it was like Financial Stuff clicked for me from an early Age, when it came to Money, I seemed almost Genius from the Age of Two my Parents told me.  Couldn't do Math worth a shit, but if you turned it into Dollars and Cents, my Mind suddenly accessed something unexplainable, pretty sure I'm somewhere on the Autism Spectrum undiagnosed actually.  *LOL*  Well, as it turns out, so did ARS Codes and all things related to Crimes, just click for me, who knew?  *Bwahaha*  And had The Man not gotten so Sick that I had to take an Early Retirement from that Career, I might even still be there to this Day, Honestly.  Plus, by then I'd inherited The G-Kid Force to Raise as each was Born, and no Day Care would take them either, so, Life happened, and began a New Chapter of Challenges.  Se la vie!   And now here we are at yet another feeble attempt at alleged Retirement.  *Eye Roll and Smiles*

I no longer have to GO to Work, I just Wake Up and it's all around me.  I've come to the conclusion this Home will never be Editorial enuf to remotely Photograph in a Panoramic way for the Ole' Blog, and The RV Garage Mahal will never be "Done" and Organized either.  The Art Studio is now Forever gonna be The Young Prince's Living Space.   And, Full Time Unpaid Caregiving is probably the biggest Challenge I ever have been put to the Test of.  It has no Retirement Options or Pensions that come with it, no Vacations, no Salary.  There is no Starting or Ending Shift Times, it's 24-7 and 365 nonstop, and no Staff, so, you will be all things to everyone you're Caring for, exclusively... and I have Five of 'em!!!   It's like a Group Home of sorts, with no Funding tho'.  *Le Sigh*  For a Group Home Owner who does it for a Career AND Profit, they'd get Paid around $3,000-$8,000 Monthly Revenue per Resident... you do the Math.  I could sure use Forty Grand a MONTH, if I was a PAID Caregiver, I ain't gonna Lie!!!  *LOL*

And with this here Crew, pretty sure they'd be Top End Resident Revenue, with the exception of mebbe Princess T.  Let's face it, when I was Adopting The G-Kid Force and the Adoption Board was Rating my Grandchildren on their 1-4 Scale of how Hard they are to find Placement for as Adoptees, due to extent of Disability, Age, Demographic and Care... she Rated a 3 and they said that "If they had a 5", THAT'S what The Young Prince would have been Rated at!!!  *Bwahahaha, yep, they actually said that out loud and were NOT Joking!*  He was actually considered by the Adoption Board to be "Unadoptable".  Which is also why I think he SHOULD be a Shue In for SSI Disability Qualification and Approval, but, what do I know?  *Eye Roll*  I may hold their Feet to the Fire and ask them, then what Group Home are you going to find Placement for him in and how much will that Cost ya Monthly opposed to $994 per Month paying him SSI to defer his Care and Costs to ME?

  I think SSI would be a Bargain compared to Residential Care Cost to the Feds or State, coz then I'm relieved of the responsibility and Care completely for the rest of his Natural Life.  He's 25 now, so I think once they do the Prospectus of how many Years of Costs that might entail for THEM, perhaps it might be Wiser not to Deny our Claim, ya think?  *Winks*   I could just Opt Out and say I can't do it anymore and it's Too Much for me on all levels.  And once they see my Dance Card and how Full it is, they couldn't dispute that Claim, they'd be hard pressed to.  And I can go in Person and be so damned Crazy myself that then they'd have to ponder, oh shit, we might end up with all SIX of them, her included... Holy Mother Of God, we best push this one through STAT!  *Bwahahahaha*   Above, Long Time Readers might recall when Princess T, then with Isaac, who got Swiped Left and banished from The Kingdom forevermore {Rusty is a far better BF}, re-enacted Local ongoing Police Brutality happening in Minority Communities {even long before ICE}, for their Halloween Costumes.  We've got a Wicked Sense of Inappropriate Humor and are so NOT PC.  *Winks*

  I once did that to DES when they wouldn't help me with The G-Kid Force and after The Man's TBI.  Brought them in {The Young Prince unmedicated and with all his Pokemon Cards he was Obsessed with at the time}, Princess T in Hard Shoes kicking Hell out of their Metal File Cabinet from her Stroller, brought my Bible and sat there saying I'd Read it from Genesis to Revelation and just turn them loose and do that every damned Day, coz I had Nothing left to Lose.  The Supervisor at DES not only pushed our Approval thru for some Services I applied for, she told me I never had to come in Person for any Re-Certification either, they'd just do it by Phone, and they did, for YEARS.  She could tell, I had no more Fucks to give and if they became HER Problem to find permanent Placement for, she was truly Fucked!!!  *Winks*  Listen, it was just a Job to that Woman... and I wasn't going away.  I was letting her Experience The Joy... of My World, and Welcome to it... that's all, just a TASTE of it!  A Sampling.  How ya like me now?  *Wicked Snort*

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Don't threaten me... or us... with a Good Time... Winks... Dawn... The Bohemian

Government Bureaucrazy

 We went to "Dragon Garden" and picked up a Chinese Takeout Feast for the Family.  It was past 3:00 p.m. to get the Lunch Special, but since we come in so often, and she knows I pick up the Grandchild after 3:00 p.m. from Work, they often still let me get the Lunch Specials anyway, which is Sweet of them.  We got Kung Pao Chicken, Mongolian Beef, Orange Chicken, Eggrolls and the smaller Fried Spring Rolls, Crab Rangoon, Steamed White Rice, Fried Rice, and Noodles in the Combo Lunch Specials.  And getting all that made Fresh and in less than 10 Minutes and at a great price, can't be beat.  

You can't get shitty Fast Food that fast.  The Son had also just gotten off Work and said he wasn't Hungry, Princess T said Rusty was taking her out to eat, but both of them ended up stuffing their Faces.  *Winks*  Once you see it and smell the Aroma, you just can't resist. *Smiles*   And I like supporting this small Family owned Business in our Community.  And now I don't have to cook, and I'm well fed, so, Color me Happy.  Nice way to finish out a day and just now relax or take an Afternoon Nap.  It was a day with nothing on the Calendar so we could do whatever we wanted to and The Man did very well Today coming along with me.  He even walked some without the aid of his Walker.  When he'd had enuf Fun, we quit for the day.

The Young Prince already got a response from Social Security, way earlier than expected, he's been Assigned a Caseworker to Review his Claim.  They sent a long Questionnaire that he has to fill out that outlines function, or lack of function, of daily life his Condition challenges him with.  I'll help him fill it out since he won't get thru it on his own and it has to be turned in before the 25th so they don't give you a lot of time to complete it and return it.  I've helped Family and Friends fill these out before, nobody with a significant Mental or Developmental Disability could possibly do it without assistance or be expected to.  I feel, after looking at all the Questions, he should have no problem being Approved, but, you just never know. 

  Seriously, you really just never know.  When he used to do Art on the Walls of his Room with his own Excrement as an Older Teen, that wasn't Crazy "Enough" to receive SSI before!!!  So I don't know how Crazy you have to be actually, according to SSI Shrinks they sent us to back then who Evaluated "them"???   Yep, all SEVEN of him, due to the D.I.D., only compounding being Schizophrenic and Institutionalized then fairly often when he'd try to Kill himself or become so Paranoid he thought the rest of  us were trying to Kill him. *Eye Roll*  Thankfully he doesn't do THAT anymore, the Shit Monkey Episodes, but I still have the Photos I took for that Psychiatric Visit tho'...  and the One of his Seven who did prefer Painting that way, we successfully transitioned to using the Garden Variety of Art Supplies instead!  *Whew*

It used to be that along with the Paperwork, you had to be formally Evaluated by their Doctors and Caseworkers too, which I expect will be the next step if it's similar to how it was 20+ Years ago?  The Daughter really can't even get thru the Process so I only Hope he can, it's grueling.  When he was a Teen he endured it and didn't Qualify at that time, primarily coz being a Minor, we were still responsible for him despite how debilitating his Illness was to him.  And, at that time, becoz he had a 148 IQ they felt he was not "Disabled Enough" becoz of his Intelligence, despite the Mental Illness being off the charts Serious and his Behaviors not sanitary or safe and he could be a Danger to Self, and sometimes others as well. 

 He required very high levels of Supervision and Schools wouldn't even accept him by the High School Years.  Coz they couldn't manage a Schizophrenic, Schools didn't want the Liability Issues and didn't know what to do with him really except suggest Institutionalization.  So, he was ultimately denied his Education by around his Freshman Year of High School.  And I remember thinking, we're not applying for Services and Disability becoz he's not Intelligent, but becoz he's Seriously Mentally Ill, the Two are not mutually exclusive.  You can be a Genius and still be barely functional if your Illness impairs Quality of Life and Independence.  If you require a Full Time Caregiver as an Adult and cannot Support yourself and/or nobody will Hire you, it's a problem.  How is a vulnerable Person expected to Survive like that?

If the person is now a Grown Adult incapable of their own Care and Support, its unrealistic to expect the Parents or Grandparents to not receive any Help financially to take Care of them and ensure the basic essentials be provided for their existence.  It's why you see so many Mentally Ill on the Streets and Homeless tho', Families can't always afford to or be able to Deal with all that it entails.  As we Age Out, our Pensions and Social Security in our Old Age, simply aren't sufficient to also be covering all of the living expenses of a Seriously Disabled or Ill Adult Child or Adult Grandchild of ours that has no place else to go, no other placement, no income, and ends up living with us permanently.

I'm Thankful he did Qualify finally for Medicaid, but that took quite a long time to receive and he ran up a lot of expenses Medically he could not Pay at all while waiting for Coverage.  He still had Coverage thru New Mexico's Medicaid Approval for 90 Days after moving here, but Arizona wouldn't take or Honor it.   It was a Caseworker at one of the Hospitals he Owed Money to that finally Advocated successfully on his behalf and helped us thru the Process and connected us also with Agencies that could also advise us on how best to approach Social Security on his behalf and explain the Process.  After all, they would like to get Paid for Services rendered.  So the Social Worker came to the Home at no charge several times on his behalf and made a lot of Calls for him.  Much more effective than me doing it.

Why?  If you have Social Workers willing and able to be Assigned to you, they often get callbacks and have direct Numbers to get thru, that the General Public doesn't have access to and you'd never get callbacks or even get thru otherwise.  Or get Appointments Scheduled.  And at this point, with him, now he's 26 this Year and still has never received a Federal Dime for his Disability even tho' it's Severe and he can't live Independently or take care of himself or work, I'm going to bury them in Appeals if they don't Approve him now.  I don't have anything to lose by being relentless about this.  I'm fed up with him being forsaken by a System that doesn't work for those it's supposed to Serve and Protect.  And I won't be around forever, or probably a whole lot longer, to pay for everything he needs just to Survive!!!  So, Tick-fucking-Tock, Time is of the Essence here.  And wading thru Government Bureaucrazy is so Time consuming...

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Mini Rant now over we'll be back to our regular scheduled programming by the next Post... Smiles... Dawn... The Bohemian