My Beautiful Boy

A few months back we found a great psychologist and one that Corey actually related to (the others we’d seen he wouldn’t even speak to them).  However, due to the very large cost of the appointments we just couldn’t afford to keep going to see her.  I hate that we had to stop going there due to finances, but what can you do???

A couple of months ago I was speaking with the counselor at Coreys school and she said that she could arrange a meeting with someone from the Education Department and evaluate our situation and see if they can get us the help we need through the school system – which would be free.  She said they can even get a full assessment and diagnosis for him through the system.

Finally – getting some help.

Well a meeting was arranged with the lady from the education department in September – it was the second to last week of school before the holidays.  10 minutes before the meeting, the school rang me to say that the meeting had been cancelled and would be rescheduled for the following week.

The following week I never heard anything from the school and my kids were all sick so I really didn’t even think about it anyway.  Then it was school holidays for 2 weeks.

So, now that we’re back at school this week, I just found out that the school counselor has taken long service leave this term and so she wont be back at school until next year.

Hey hang on a minute – what about our meeting????

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying she can’t take long service leave, everyone is entitled to their leave when it is due – but couldn’t something have been said to me, couldn’t arrangements have been made for the meeting with someone else, couldn’t something have been done?  Does this now mean that I have to wait until next year before we can finally start getting things moving to try and get some help???

Needless to say, I’m not very happy.  The anger issues and the swearing seems to get worse and worse all the time.  Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse it does.

Corey has missed so much school lately it’s not funny, yet he can’t get a diagnosis because “it’s not affecting his schooling” they said, so they don’t need to do an official diagnosis.  He might not be naughty or disruptive at school, but HE DOESN’T GO TO SCHOOL, personally I thought that would be ‘affecting his schooling’ but apparently not!

Maybe I shouldn’t worry about a diagnosis, it’s not like a diagnosis is going to change anything anyway.  I guess for me a diagnosis might help me feel better if other people know there is a reason for his behavior, instead of me thinking that everyone just thinks I’m a bad parent that has no control over my child.

Anyway, I’ll stop raving now.  As you can probably tell, I’m just quite angry and frustrated at the moment and had to come on here and vent my anger.

Thanks for reading
Sheryl
My Beautiful Boy