Anyone started with the NDIS?

Thanks @Bunniekins and @CheerBear

@eth I hear you about cost of living and esp therapy.

It is a crazy balancing game.

I can cope with pens and built up security but was really struggling last year when my son was not getting any Centrelink and I was running house and car on a pens for one.

I have only had fortnightly appointments for about a year and that was funded by Royal Commission, before that I spaced out appointments to bare minimum to cope with them financially.

Coffee and movies are rare. For decades they were out of the question, but now I do allow a few per year.

Part of my approach is that the best tickets are on stage, so I keep being part of the entertainment..lol

Cut costs and have some interest in life.

I wish you could find a group of people to connect with in your new location ...

to do some ... activism or creativity with ...

Thanks @Appleblossom

Have spent several hours today reading over all the AAT and NDIS paperwork we've collected. Glad I did as I found some stuff about NDIS rules and policy guidelines that sil had that I hadn't seen. But brain is swimming with it all now. Hopefully I'll follow what happens at the hearing better now that I've done it.

Dear @eth I am behind you in this as are lots of forumites.

I have no doubt YOU Do due diligence.

I guess this comes first.

Don t let it get you down.

Hello @eth

Thinking of you with the trial approaching..

I hope that they recognise and commend you on the hours that have gone into all of your preparation..

you have made it to this stage...well done for such determination and resilience..

you have followed through honouring your rights..

will be thinking of you along with all of your other friends here...💚💜♥️

Good morning and thanks @Sophia1 @Appleblossom @outlander. 3 days to go.

hello @eth

When I had my major surgery I focussed as much as I could,..,,on the time post surgery...that was my count down.....

did not always work of course...did help relieve some of the anxiety..

is human nature to feel anxious...part of our self preservation...

how many days until you go away?

Have you started practising with your iphone gps and photographs yet?

might help to have some photographs on your iphone if you feel a little disoriented or alone...homesick...missing brother and sil...your garden....

you will of course have all the support of your friends on these threads...

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@eth

ps...many people won't know what ps means laugh

I managed to put a spoiler in above message...I think from touching yellow icon above which I always think is a smiling icon...have not a clue what a spoiler is......spoils what?

if this "ps" confuses you even more than my previous message just ignore.... I am confusion personified at present and have stopped fighting it..just flowing with it now until it subsides...

thinking of you