Good Grief, Hilary!! How did you get such a b _ _ _ _ _for your social worker? Why couldn't you have been assigned a Camilla F. type of personality? I think you need to continue following up with Stacie, of Sen. Wood's office about the totally unreasonable method of harrassment that the social services has continued to put you through. Would it help if I called Stacie and told her of knowing you through the PIE and that the continuing saga of your dealings with the service that is supposed to be HELPING your family rather than tearing it apart? Waiting to hear from you. Jeanette Fuhr <[log in to unmask]> ---------- From: Hilary Blue <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: DILEMMA Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:29 PM Those d-----d social workers. May G-d bless them and keep them ...... far away from me!!!!!!!! i just called the chief sw to tell her i would prblaby not be able to make our meeting tomorrow because of the senate hearing, and she replied - Well, I guess you have to decide what is more important to you - going to a senate hearing or having your child come home to live with you, In her best self righteous tone, she says - because these meetings are very important and they'll decide whether jessi is recommended to come home permanently. So i called Senator Jane Woods,(703 352 1991) our State Senator who is very involved with health care issues, and Social Services comes under State jurisdiction - any way i spoke to her aide, Stacie - who once again offered to intervene on my behalf - but i dont see what good that would do - because the social workers believe they are right,and anything i say or do would just antagonize them . But she was very sympathetic. And then SW called back to say she couldn't change the date of the meeting and stated in no uncertain terms that i would be jeopardizing Jessi's chances of coming home permanently, and that i had to decide which was more important to me. I asked her if this was a threat, and she said no - i said it sure sounded like one, and on that note we ended the conversation. Now what do i do? do i play their game and stay home for their silly meeting tomorrow where i'm going to be submitted to the usual barrage of two hours of hearing how inadequate i am as a parent etc... or do i just ignore them and go to the senate hearing and hope i get home in time or get Seen Woods to take this up with the SOCIal Services people - who have stated that they do not think that my "so-called" Parkinson's is nearly as disabling as I would have them believe (this was written in one of the reports) YOURS IN ANGER AND ANGUISH hilary blue