[tri-med] Re: LVN nursing questions...

>We only get 12 hours a month respite (yes, 12 hours a month!).  

That's exactly what we get too.  We were on our 3rd worker before
I even got wind of the respite hour arrangement, and then it was
from the mom of an older boy with Down's that I baby sat for.  We
had the same worker too.  She made me beg her for just the 12 hrs.
Then made me sign a contract agreeing to reimburse them for any
hours that they found us a sitter for.  And I signed since it was
the only way I thought I'd be able to get some one in here 
occasionally for a break.  But when it got over to the office of
the woman who over saw the Sitter Service program she "round filled" 
it.  And I quote her, "You've got to be kidding!  Families in La Jolla 
(multi million dollar homes) get more free respite hours a month then 
this, so there's just no way I'm making a family from East San Diego 
reimburse for them."  They did, at a later date, set up an sliding scale
arrangement for reimbursement of services based on the families income.
But it was generous enough that we still never owed them anything.  And 
now that she's an adult, our income doesn't even enter the equation any
more.  Using the Easter Seal's Respite Camp Program you're now required 
to release all your hours for the month of the camp, but camp is more 
hours then we have coming per month, yet they don't make us up the 
difference either.  So going the Respite Camp route gives us more hours 
for our hours.  Love this new math sometimes....

  
Fawna, mom to Philina 22yrs (PT6p & Moya Moya Syndrome), & 
research coordinator for Tracking Rare Incidence Syndromes 
(TRIS) Project http://home.mindspring.com/~fawna33/




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