Today, I coincidentally ran into Gabby's old daycare provider at the grocery store. She asked about Raquel (who was with me) and I told her about the struggles I've been having with the school district and asked her if she had any part-time openings. She does and Raquel will be starting her daycare on September 16th. We are taking baby steps at this and she will be going for only 4 hours, once per week until we feel she is ready to add more days. She will also be going with my respite worker at first so she can show them appropriate ways to deal with her special needs. The reason I am having my respite worker do this instead of going myself is because we all feel that I would be too big of a distraction. And attending daycare and school is about being around other kids instead of Mom.
It's definitely a start - and I'm really happy about it. Plus, the daycare is walking distance from our house.
As far as therapy goes, OT is still in the works. Karin is approved under my insurance but for PPOs not HMOs so I'm still dealing with getting that worked out. But Raquel has her first speech session on the 9th, one week from today, with a therapist named Danielle who specializes in preschool kids.
Such a slow process with all of this but slow and steady wins the race, right? That's what I'm going with at least. And we WILL win this race.
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