Tuesday, June 12, 2012

P C fraakin' A!!!

I am so excited. I just scheduled the Public Health Nurse assessment for PCA services for PP! If you don't know what a PCA is, it is a person who more or less is a baby sitter. They are way better than a normal baby sitter though, because they have to be somewhat trained in caregiving and I don't have to pick up the bill. To top it off, the PCA we have chosen for PP is one of the most amazing people I have ever met!

ASHLEY D! I am so excited! The day has finally come! Thursday at 1 PM a PHN will come to assess PP for the amount of PCA hours we will be receiving.

I've known Ashley for a while, and PP has gotten to know her pretty well over the past few months. They have many of the same interests, including jewelry and a love for fun times. It's a match that I couldn't have dreamed for, it's so perfect, almost unbelievable! Ashley and myself are good friends and have a lot of the same interests as well, so not only am I comfortable with this arrangement, I am peeing my pants over it! Yahoo!

This appointment has been a long time coming. I was very ambitious in getting the first steps for this process completed, but then PP had her health insurance taken away. You can't have a PCA assessment if you can't pay for it, so I had to cancel the appointment with the PHN. That was in April. It has taken about 3 months to get back to square one, but we won't have to go through that circus ever again. PP has guaranteed health insurance until 2016, and when that day comes I'll deal with whatever needs to be done.

I have made several attempts to get a hold of the PCA Service Coordinator at St. David's Center, which is the provider for the PCA services, but I had no luck. What the fluff! Thank goodness for Stephanie, my own personal PHN, because she was able to go down a different avenue to get the PHN assessment from the county.

So what will I do with my free time allowance? For the rest of the summer, I have no idea. This whole concept is so new I don't think I have really absorbed what it means for me yet. Maybe I will get all of the things done that are half done around my house. Maybe I'll get a job! That sounds like the best idea. In the fall, I will be attending the Phlebotomy program at MCTC so I'm sure I will have plenty to do then. Until then, I am going to enjoy myself and TCOB.

For the rest of the day I will be blaring the song "Taking Care of Business" by BTO while having a blasty blast!

Pretty flowers and sun showers
XoX

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