Houston, We Have a Worker

A Social Worker that is. Apparently if you call with a problem, you get staffed a lot quicker. Who knew?

I took The New Girl to the doctor listed on her placement paperwork only to be told that they weren't her assigned pediatrician. She has been going there pretty much since birth, and from the looks of her chart she has gone to the doctor a lot, but she is officially assigned by the state medical insurance to another doc in another town. The whole process of getting her switched over is going to be a PITA, which is why I called the intake/investigative worker and left a message. Only I didn't reveal that the pediatrician was going to go ahead and see her that day since she had an appointment and we had already waited (with three kids!) for two hours before finally getting to see the doctor. Instead I let her think that maybe we wouldn't be able to get The New Girl in to see a doc until this insurance issue was resolved
(Yes, I feel guilty for being deceptive). And that's when she called back and told me she just staffed the case to a worker.

All girly parts were intact so hopefully that indicates that no violations occurred. The burn/scrape/mark was documented but the doc didn't seem to think it was a malicious thing, said it looked to him (at a week plus old) to be minor and probably accidental. She weighs 41 pounds and is 41 inches tall. The New Girl is square.

The worker is experienced and locally well-known. She has the name of a celebrity. When I was going through GPS classes (The Husband did Deciding Together classes during the day while I did GPS/MAPP classes at night) this worker was also going through them. We frequently sat beside one another and apparently I made somewhat of a good impression. She was the one who recommended we get Foster Daughter #1 back when we weren't even done with classes yet. I felt like if she hadn't of recommended us that we wouldn't have received children. This will be the first time we get to work with her though and I'm both eager and apprehensive. Some of the gossip-prone foster parents have mentioned that she is hard to get ahold of and doesn't seem to care about the kids (meaning she typically sends kids home even in dire circumstances). But these same individuals don't like BabyBoy's worker and I adore her, so who knows. Already The New Girl's worker has sent an email answering my questions, inquiring about our schedule for planning homevisits, and complimenting me .. so far so good!

She likes my SitReps or progress reports, whatever you want to call them. Since foster kid numero uno I have sent the respective SW an email (hate talking on the phone) at the end of each month listing all the things the foster kid did that month including pictures, problems, improvements, list of things still needing to be worked on, etc. I knew that some of them got forwarded around the CPS office and several workers have complimented me on them before, but only now (from her comment) do I feel that someone actually appreciates them. Hey, it's nice to be appreciated. I'll take what I can get.