hi,,new to group..

[cyclonefence]

7. Really glad to meet you

and happy you went into detail about your work. My gorgeous special-needs daughter is 33 and sharing a home with two other women and full-time staff about 20 minutes from our house. You guys are doing god's work, and while I'm sorry it took a health scare to get you retired, I'm grateful beyond expression for the work that you and your cohort do.

My daughter is safe for now, but we are missing her like crazy--her dad makes Sunday breakfast at their house and every other Sunday they all, including staff of course, come here for dinner. I pick her up on Tuesdays from her day program at 3 p.m. and we hang out watching tv and eating frozen pizza.

I too have copd (and bronchiectasis) so we've had next-to-no contact. My husband makes Sunday breakfast here and drops it off; I make every other Sunday dinner, and he drops it off. We've tried face time with little success, and the one time staff pulled into our driveway with the ladies, we had a hell of a time keeping Sara in the van--it was a pretty bad idea, but staff wanted to surprise me.