Some people are just too strange for words.

2/6/09

Met Martin from Gheel. I ask him straight out why is he meeting me when he has ignored my previous texts and calls, he says because Peter told him to and Peter is the boss. What a funny and strange little man. I cannot work him out at all, all smiles, acts friendly enough but you just know that he would rather be any place else than with you, I can normally read people well enough except my own bloody kids. We have tea and he just let me talk for an hour. He said he could meet me at the Fairview office every week on a Wednesday, I asked why, he said well you can if you like. I don't have clue what his job is. He says that he has to clear it with Peter first.

I call Carol Doolan's office again and I am told she is on holiday for two weeks.

I receive a letter from the latest TD who I went to see as I have gotten absolutely nowhere regards anyone meeting my son's extensive special needs. The letter is a reply from the HSE saying that I personally made contact with Carol Doolan and that Peter Byrne of Gheel Autism Services has agreed to organise an assessment of my son's needs and get back to the HSE about it and that Gheel will offer support to me.

What !!  My son already has an extensive Diagnostic Assessment Report dated November 2008 and many Recommendations were made by a renowned Autism expert, Dr Amitta Shah and now seven months had gone past from when that report was issued and no one has done anything to meet my son’s special needs despite my continual attempts to have these implemented. The assessment has been done, the recommendations made which were stated as "immediate"  so why even are they attempting to start all over again from square one.