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You know that hypothetical ethics thing where you're in a boat and you have to decide which member of your family to toss overboard in order to save the rest? I liked when that was just hypothetical.

ETA:

Due to the dwindling mental health services in my community, it has become increasingly apparent that I can no longer sustain, all by my lonesome, so many extremely aggressive mentally ill children in my home. I've already begun the process of tossing my 10 year old out of the boat. On Friday we're having a big meeting about my 12 year old, during which I need to make some sort of decision about him also. I suspect everybody at this meeting will be expressing their regret that due to circumstances beyond their control they cannot offer any services. It doesn't really matter what services the treatment plan recommends if there is no one to provide said services.

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Date: 2008-10-08 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keefaq.livejournal.com
I've edited the entry to explain.

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Date: 2008-10-08 02:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com
Ah shit. {{{{hugs}}}}

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Date: 2008-10-08 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sasha-feather.livejournal.com
Oh dear. Thinking of you and sending good thoughts your way.

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Date: 2008-10-08 01:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keefaq.livejournal.com
Thank you dear. I appreciate the thought.

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Date: 2008-10-08 01:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zelempa.livejournal.com
I'm sorry to hear about your family.

Unrelatedly, but within days (!!!) I will have an 11,000 word present for you.

CROSS MY HEART.

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Date: 2008-10-08 02:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keefaq.livejournal.com
Eeeeeeee! This kind of present is always relevant. I didn't know you were still writing.

I haven't had much time to work on my Sentinel story because I'm stuck writing these stupid episode tags.

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Date: 2008-10-08 02:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zelempa.livejournal.com
I'm stuck doing LOTS of irrelevant things, but I'm going to try to squeeze some fanfic back in around the edges. I'm signed up for TS Secret Santa. I thought I'd go back and knock this one out first, since I've kept you waiting so long. Also, it was almost done, so it was easier to get into. :) I think it's turning out MUCH better than it would have last summer. I just cut out of a bunch of boring stuff and added a bunch of awesome stuff. FYI.

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Date: 2008-10-10 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zelempa.livejournal.com
done (http://zelempa.livejournal.com/54541.html)

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Date: 2008-10-10 10:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kensieg.livejournal.com
Where is your 10 year old going? How many children do you have?

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Date: 2008-10-12 12:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keefaq.livejournal.com
My ten year old in in a residential treatment facility. They are required to develop a discharge plan, and I have told them that he cannot come back here because we cannot get anyone to consistently provide the services he needs to remain in the community.

I have 9 children, but they are not all at home as some of them are adults. It's hard to say how many of them are living here because there is a lot of moving in and out and crashing on the couch and so on. The sibling group of 3 boys ages 9, 10 and 12 are the really violent ones.

None of our local providers feel they can meet the needs of these kids, and our local psychiatric hospital, which is only a 20 minute drive from our home, has banned them from all their programs. I don't blame the hospital, they are grossly understaffed to do funding cuts, and they just can't do it, but neither can I.