Thanks for starting this thread Abbie, it's good to hear from you, I have a link you might be interested in that is similar to the one you shared:

http://www.sharewi.org/SHAREAffiliates.html

They do food buying at a reduced price too, check it out and see if you've got one in your area too, I looked but the one you posted isn't available here in my state yet. Thanks for sharing the link! I am glad things are better for you now, I know I have counted hard on the people here for emotional support getting through the pain in my life and it's remarkable just how much knowing people are out there that care about you really can help.

Oh boy Donna, call them and tell them you're nowhere near ready to have that procedure done YET and can they schedule a regular face-to-face meeting appt and let you TALK to the dr. before getting ahead of themselves? That is just ridiculous that you'd just blindly schedule a procedure like that without first meeting and talking to the dr. I would be leery of that too, has to be a misunderstanding on someone's behalf in the office, so call and check it out-IF You want to now after such a glaring mistake...I would be miffed about such a thing too if I was you...Hope you get things worked out to YOUR convenience, not theirs.

As for me, I am sitting here and 3am wishing the kid would go back to bed...I woke him up around 11:30 to go brush his teeth and get off the couch where he'd fallen asleep and he then would not go back to bed. I am so sick of how he gets up like this and wants to eat, eat and watch TV. I know, it's hard to put the tv on and expect him to fall asleep again, but I only do it after an hour and a half of fighting sleep myself, so because I wanted the computer on I gave in and put the tv on.

But he's so selfish about food. I wanted to make a can of tuna to share and have a small sandwich from and he tried his damnedest to stop me from being able to do that because he wanted the whole can...I get so sick of his brattiness, I figure that is just like a kid, not just a kid with autism but even so I hate being in an argument with the kid fighting to get a stinkin' sandwich....This isn't the first time this has happened and it won't be the last I'm sure.

I feel so tired right now and there he goes back into the kitchen, it sickens me. We're supposed to go out to lunch with Mom but if I don't get some serious sleep I won't be able to drive us to Wendy's and will have to call Mom and ask if we can do it later in the day which will screw our schedule all up. *Sigh* I laid there in bed while Jack watched Jackie for two hours, but I didn't sleep well because JAckie kept coming in there and I was afraid he was going to throw water on me because he does that if I am in bed when he doesn't want me there.

This is stuff I will not miss in a couple of months when I move out supposing things contine to get worse, I am not going to hesitate to get away if he gets violent again though, I have had enough of that crap...I want to get him and his dad off on the right foot but not at the cost of my quality of life, I am too young to be confined to a power chair because he injures my neck or my back or something you know? But that is what worries me.

Anyway I have been looking at cars and laptops/computers and cell phones the past few days, thinking ahead about the budget I have to work with in order to get on my feet again because I am NOT going to get the car, it's Jack's and I am fine with that, I want a little four cyclinder Chevy Cavalier anyway. Not sure I could get a job and work because of my health, but I need something to get to dr appts in, and one of those will do the trick nicely. It's cheered me up to think about a new start and I am willing to work with Jack to make it possible to keep Jackie out of a group home, but up only to a point...I haven't decided if I am going to try to help him get through this funeral trip in October or not yet.