Just plain exhausted.

Update on Luke:

Been a little slow on updating things! Luke is now responding not only to the question "What is your name?" but now "How old are you?" on a consistent basis. How wonderful!

He started occupational therapy this week and did really well! We also hired a third ABA therapist who started with Luke last week, Miss Heidi. Things are going well so far!

Onto other things. . .

Being a working mom of a special needs child is just completely exhausting. I could literally fall asleep at my desk right now. I don't do coffee, Coke is my main source of caffeine. Not working to well. I wish I could take a lunch and take a nap, but I spent two hours with ds this morning running him to ST, so that pretty much cuts out my lunch break. No time to take off from work as I have to save what little I have left for ds appointments.

We have just begun our first round of appeals with the insurance company regarding our ST claims. I have spent hours with them on the phone, because not only are they giving us fits about ST, but now they claim they never received the three other ABA claims I sent by fax on three different occasions, which I have a confirmation messages from all of them. Bunch of bologna in my opinion. So, I had to resend those and got a phone call back saying that they did get them. Watch, I will call them in a few days and they will say they didn't get them. Dealing with them is exhausting in itself.

We are also trying the medicaid route, still awaiting a decision of acceptance on that. Still have a few months before we hear anything on that. And what completely stinks is that we live in one state right accross the river/state line from Louisville, where all of our ds services are coming from. There is crap available in our state, and I have a feeling that medicaid will give us problems with paying for services in another state. Another battle we may have to face as well.

I wish medicaid/insurance would be a little easier on us parents of ASD, I mean just raising a child with ASD in itself is challenging, why make it that much more difficult for us.

I feel like I am stuck between a rock and a hard place and about to fall asleep there.