Simon in SE PA Needs a Home

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I am incredibly sad to say that allipuffs has decided to rehome Simon. (Last previous post is here, and that links back to the beginning of my involvement with allipuffs and extra sweet Simon.

He deserves a loving stable home where is is safe and cared for.
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I know this is tearing allipuffs up. She may be able to come on to explain to you more about her decision. Even though I know how much allipuffs and Simon love each other, I understand allipuff's need to rehome him.

Allipuffs and Simon are doing a great job with his diabetes. That is not what the rehoming is about.
 
When I saw this post, I was really hoping this was a different Simon. The situation had improved so much it seemed like it was past the point he needed to be rehomed. Airpuff is putting Simon's needs before her own which is the sign of a good fur parent. A lot of other prople in this situation would have had him put to sleep or dropped him off at a shelter. At least Simon has a chance at a new life and hopefully airpuff can keep track of him.

My diabetic kitty was someone's elses until last October. I often wonder how he got abandoned or if his prevoius owners even knew he was diabetic. I am glad he wasn't dropped off at animal control or put to sleep. Nomad now has a chance at a new life with me. Hopefully Simon can find a new fur family and airpuff can remain in contact with him.
 
thank you Janell and nomad. I hope Simon is as lucky as Nomad. I have a situation that is unstable and at my age and not having a job, Simon needs a better home than i can give him. I can't even see what my future will be if I don't make drastic changes. Simon is doing well after his surgery and his diabetes is under control. i hope he will be able to not have to have shots soon. I have family and friends in North Carolina who will help me but Simon can't go because they have a very aggressive chow who hates cats. They have inherited her when their Father died. I have an autistic grand daughter who needs my help too and she lives here, but having no job is is leaving me barely able to help myself. My decision to go there is because i have the ability to live with friends and try to find work. My grand daughter needs meds my daughter can't afford. i want to help my Grand daughter too. I have taken care of Simon since he was found abandoned at about 5 weeks old. He is my baby and i know he loves me. I hope he can find a home that has another kitty because he loves to cuddle with them. He is a good boy and uses his litter box all the time. i had him neutered when is was 6 months old and he is a very well behaved sweet little sugar kitty. He loves attention but gets grumpy when getting his ears pricked. i just wrap him in a towel and it calms him. I will miss him if he finds a new home but i will feel better knowing he he loved and cared for. It would be wonderful to be able to keep in touch with his new mommy to see how he is doing. I hope I can do this. Thank you for caring about us and I can't even explain in words how grateful I am to Venita for all she has done for my Simon. Without her, i don't know if he would have survived. I could never have afforded the surgery right now for his dental or his lantus. I was never taught to read his sugar levels and was just giving him shots twice a day. When i was working, he went to the vet every 6 weeks but i could not do that any more. I know it was the kindness of Venita and all of you who donated to his fund raiser that Simon is even with us now. I never knew there were people in this world who had such love for our feline babies. It seems for so long, that i was the only one who cared about simon, especially after he was diagnosed with diabetes. it seemed the consensus was, put him down. I have fought to keep him and have saved his life several times since he was 5 weeks. He was just hours from dead when my daughter brought him to me. He was so small and his eyes were glued shut. He could hardly breathe or even move. Due to this infection he has no meow. he had one relapse a few months after he was well and spent the night at the Vet with dehydration and got antibiotics. He has been well now for 6 years, except for finding the diabetes about 3 years ago. He has been given his rabies tests and i had him tested for Feline Aids and leukemia when I first found him. i am going to get those tests again Thursday since it has been so long, but I know he doesn't have those diseases. It was amazing too since is he was a west Philly feral abandoned kitten. Right now he is taking a bath on the couch and happy not to have his teeth hurt. thank you again all my fellow Kitty lovers. Alipuffs ( Barbara)
 
Barbara,

My heart breaks when I think of you without Simon and Simon without you, but I know you are putting his needs first in finding him a new home. You do a marvelous job caring for him, and you do a marvelous job caring for your granddaughter. We will find Simon a safe, loving home, hopefully with other kittehs he can cuddle with.

PS: Janelle and Nomad changed her name from Jan Ellery. It's her kitteh Katrina that has been flirting with all the boys.
 
Hi Janelle, thank you for all the help you have given my Simon. I wish there was a way I could keep Simon with me, but it doesn't look like the a safe thing for him with my situation. My grand Daughter needs everything I can do to help her. She is growing fast and needs so much help. Simon deserves a good and stable home where he can be cared for and be loved. There are so many kittys in the world that need love, i wish i have the ability to help them all. At this point, I need to do what is best for everyone and Simon needs more than I can give him. I just want to let you know how much I appreciate all you have done for us. Alipuffs, barbara
 
I can't believe nobody in that area has adopted Simon yet!Does DCIN have foster homes if Simon isn't placed before his mom has to move?

I also have some information for airpuff. Your autistic grandaughter might be eligible for social security disability payments. Many people don't realize that disabled children under eighteen are sometimes eligible for these benefits.If they qualify for SSDI they can also frequently get Medicare or Medicaid with it depending on their income.

There was also a law that went into effect that insurance companies cannot reuse to pay for medication for autistic disorders. I don't know if this was a national change or just here in Florida. Isurance companies would agrue since Autism is a developmental disorder and not a psychiatric disorder they don't have to pay for medication or treatment.

I will try to find some info. on that law change.In the meantime I hope Simon is adopted and this story has a happy ending!
 
We might be able to get Simon in somewhere as a foster, but we really would prefer a purmanent home. This boy is going to go through enough serious stress leaving Barbara. They are strongly bonded. And as I know from Beasley, Twinkie, and Tawny, some cats can sit in a foster homes through some of their best years.
 
Hi Janelle, thank you for the info. My daughter is aware of the Social Security but she is hesitate right now because she does not want her labeled. Scarlett has CHIP and we have just found a doctor who will accept her insurance. We have been paying a specialist for the past year. We are treating her holistically and using DAN protocol. We have her first appointment Wednesday and hoping the insurance will pay for the metabolic test she needs and for her Methyl B-12 shots. She is on a special diet which is very costly, about $200. weekly just for the food. it has helped her so much. We also pay $100. a bottle for special vitamins made just for Autistic kids and Zeolite ($150.00) which is used for detoxification. Scarlett has a form of autism called PDD. She has gut problems as well as developmental delay. She is getting Occupational therapy and is starting The Floor program. These are provided by the county so no cost. We want to get her hyperbaric oxygen treatments and we are pretty sure no insurance company will pay for that or the Zeolite and vitamins. We are hoping it will cover the tests she needs done and the Methyl B-12 shots which are vitamins so we are not sure. We couldn't find a doctor because they all want to give shots and Scarlett can't have any more shots. They were making her worse. The Doctor we found doesn't believe in immunizations and treats DAN protocol. Also, she has severe allergies and they treat that as well. We are hoping to get the metabolic tests done first. By Wednesday we should know. We had them done when she was first diagnosed and she needs them again before starting the B 12 shots. She has improved so much from her treatments so far and we want to be able to get the hyberbaric oxygen but it is really expensive. If you buy the machine it is about $10,000,00. We are hoping to rent one. The inflamation in her gut is almost gone and she is starting to talk. she is 2 1/2 years old. She sang me the ABC song last week. As far as Simon is concerned. he is doing great after his surgery. I just changed his food to Friskies because he was not eating so well and his left eye got red. I took him to the vet today and they gave him an antibiotic cream. I hope it is not an allergy to Friskies because he loves it. It is his left eye and it was fine until yesterday. now, it is red around the outside and he closes it slightly. i have given him his antibiotic today already. I hope he is okay soon. He has been through enough lately. Venita is probably right that a Foster care home would not be the best thing. He needs stability. i don't have to go right away. the longer I stay, the less money i have to help Scarlett. I still will keep his home as long as it takes to find him a loving home. he needs someone who is stable and needs a sweet wonderful kitty to love. He is very loving and deserves for me to wait. I will continue to stay where i am until he finds a home. I hope to be able to go by the end of February, but I would never abandon Simon. i would keep him with me if i had to live in my car before i would let anyone hurt him. I will suggest the Social Security to my daughter again, but she just isn't ready yet. Thank you again for your help. Now, you are even trying to help with my Scarlett. i am so grateful for your caring about us. This has been tough. Barbara
 
PDD stands for Prevasive Developmental Disorder. Autism is a type of PDD, not the other way around. As you may already know, the British physician who started the theory that immunizations cause autism has been discredited and the journal that originally published the article, the Lancet, withdrew support for his theory. Please also ask your daughter to reconsider any physiciian who advises parents not to get immunizations. This goes against what the AMA peds. Division advocates.

Most evidence suggest autism has a genetic base. I have seen no research studies that the DAN procedure makes any significant reduction in autism symptoms. APA (American Psychological Association) recommends behavioral therapy and other interventions like PT and speech therapy. Trying the DAN protocal probably won't hurt but it will cost a lot of money and time. In the 1980's there was a diet called the Goldstein diet some parents of Down's Syndrome chidren tried. The theory was similiar to the one behind the DAN movement. None of these individuals were "cured" of Down's syndrome.

I encourage you to do some research on this topic yourself. There was also a megavitamin movement to. cure schizophrenia in the 1980s. Although some benefitted from improved nutrition, no studies supported this theory.
 
Hi Janelle, Thank you again for your wanting to help. I worked at The Institutes For The Achievement of Human Potential for 15 years and we helped 1000s of kids with neurological disabilities. I spoke with parents everyday and took their complete histories for themselves and their kids. As for the diet, i know for a fact it helps. Scarlett's gut was so bad she screamed with every BM. 2 Days on the diet and she was regular. 1 month and she stopped flapping and tip toeing and her diagnosis was changed from ASD to PDD. She is getting all the therapy in her home. The county is providing all the therapies so my daughter isn't avoiding them. Scarlett is getting speech therapy and Occupational therapy. I know nothing can cure Down's syndrome, but I know a boy who is in school with his peers. i also have seen many kids completely cured of ASD even without any County aided therapies. I don't believe the new confirmation regarding the shots. I don't believe they cause the problem, but I know they didn't help and in many cases made it worse because of the mercury in the serum. Scarlett can't detox by herself. She has a hyper immune system which is now getting better since she got a cold last month. she has never had a cold or the flu. I know a young man who was treated at the Institutes for 10 years. he was diagnosed PDD. he has graduated from college and just got married a few months ago. It was 20 years ago I started working there and left 5 years ago.
What we are doing is both programs without shots right now. The new Doctors we are going to can get her clean immunizations if they are needed. Scarlett's diet has made dramatic changes in her. before her diet, she would flap things for hours if you would let her. Now, she play with her toys correctly and is starting to talk. her diet is one all people would benefit from. All the nutrition she needs to heal her brain and gut and her muscle tone is great. I sincerely believe we are doing the best things and I have seen hundreds of children do extremely well. As far as Autism being genetic, i don't know but I don't think so. The increase in Autism in the last 10 years is unbelievable. 1 in every 120 kids.
I am one of those people who believes nothing I hear and 1/2 of what i see and I have seen many kids get well from doing what we are trying to do. We just need the money to do it. I am helping Scarlett all I can but she does need the diet. I am not a advocate of DAN because I don't know much about it but my daughter likes it. A friend of mine, who was a doctor where i worked had a child with brain injury, she did this with her son and he is well now. she has advised us to continue with the diet and get the hyperbaric oxygen. Her Autistic child just graduated from college and he has no signs if ASD. I know what I am told but I also know what I have seen first hand, so I know i have to help Scarlett with these things. I know they are helping her. Simon is my baby too and i want to help him as well. My situation is that if i don't find a job before the EUC runs out, i will be in North Carolina anyway. My going there means I lose my Simon and my Scarlett. What is best for Simon and Scarlett is not what is best for me. I love them both so i have to try to do what is best for them, not me. I wish I had other options but I haven't seen one yet. Knowing they are both safe and getting what they need is my best option. Since my divorce 5 years ago, Simon and I have been on our own. I had a great job but that ended and i can't even find one now that would pay my bills much less help Simon and Scarlett. I can't even afford Simon's meds. what will the future bring? I don't know but for the ones I love, i hope it will be a happy one. I am so sad about all of this, but I don't know what else to do. If simon did not find a new home, i would never abandon him and i would do everything I could to help him but with his medical condition, he needs more than I have. What else can i do? barbara
 
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