cebii

it's final

S is back home, thank goodness, and back to her joyful, loud self. At court yesterday the judge agreed that she should still go on our thanksgiving trip. We were worried about that. Luckily, the therapists and psychiatrists agreed that her problem was her normal behavior spiraling out of her control, rather than a depressive state. It is more likely that she will not have another similar spiral if she is with us than if we try to leave her here.

This, of course, led to another problem - what to do with M. She is not moving in with us permanently until after thanksgiving, but we'd told her we were trying to get her to come with us. We finally got her judge's approval. When we didn't know if S could go, we pondered using her ticket for M, but that is now out of the question. I searched for reasonably priced tickets several times today. The airlines seem to change the prices randomly throughout the day. Anyway, during lunch I found one for only $100 more than we paid for the rest of ours. She is going to be on different flights, but she has flown alone before and is not scared. All of her arrival and departure times are within an hour or so of ours, so she won't really be alone except on the plane. I bought the ticket.

Our case manager is going to try to find some money to pay us back for part of it, since this will lead to quite a lean Christmas. Oh well, this will be worth it.

posted by cebii @ 12:33 PM