It's been awhile...

I realize that I have dropped the ball on this blog. As much as I want to document my progress in my new life, I feel that there really hasn't been any (progress.) I have been unable to find a decent lawyer, I have been playing phone tag with the legal department of a domestic violence group, so I am left researching and dealing with my legal issues alone. I have an appointment with the IRB on Monday to set a date for my hearing and, since I have no lawyer yet, I cannot select a date that a lawyer will be ready to attend. I am pretty much stuck doing this pro se. This is such an important case for me that I spend all of my free time looking up cases and articles that I might use in my claim. My son's issues have also become more pronounced since he started therapy here so I have very little free time to be my own lawyer. This means that I have gotten zero leisure writing (or reading) done recently. I have not been sleeping well due to the anxiety of all of this, brain function has gone below fifty percent. When I do manage to fall asleep, I have the strangest dreams. Hopefully I will find a positive resolution to one or more obstacles before the next one surfaces.