The entire landscape of the special needs journey makes self-care a challenge. Medical appointments, traumatic events, mountains of paperwork, and the high level of daily need for your child means that your time is more limited than the average American. If you are juggling a full-time job, other children, or…
Grief is a very real part of the special needs journey, most intensely in the months following a diagnosis or other traumatic event. I’m just under four months post-diagnosis, and I’m in the thick of the grieving process. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to survive special needs…
Once you’ve decided that you’re going to take on the Katie Beckett application, it’s helpful to have some key information as you start. Having very recently been through this process, I know there is a severe lack of accurate and helpful tools out there. I had to gather information from…
The first time someone told me about the Katie Beckett Medicaid Deeming Waiver, I was very confused. It’s a mouthful of a title that doesn’t lend itself at all to understanding what it’s all about. If you’re trying to decode what in the world this ‘Katie Beckett’ thing is, or…