[nabs] Letting go :-(

[Dornetta]

BlankHello all my peeps: 
I apologize for the length of this email right-off-the-top. I just got off the phone with my VR counselor here at the SC Commission of the Blind and she recommended that we close my case *sigh-tear*. I know that this is probably best since they are not really providing a service to me for school. After the initial assessment in 2007 and me starting school fall of that year, the only service that was provided has been technology assisstance. So, I know that this is probably the right thing but I can't help but feel like I am swimming among the sharks now and no one here to "save" me should troble arrive. To be perfectly honest, they were my "safety net", you know, someone to fall back on I.C.E. My original disability counselor from the school has left and right now, they haven't hired another in her position which means as far as school, I am alone or at least this is how I feel. I don't really go to them for anything particular unless it is major. Mrs. Mihal, my first and only counselor from the school, always made it a habit to introduce me to the people that she was working with at the school, like the people in IT and so on so that should any problems arise I could go to them directly if she wasn't available. This arrangement made it easier and allowed me to develop a working relationship with them instead of having Mrs. Mihal setting up meeting, training, and such. So now that Mrs. Mihal has left and I am in limbo and now with Deebie closing my case what do I do? I understand that all counselors want an 26-closure and she has said that she can and will reopen my case either when I graduate or should problems arise but I am still feeling "some kindof way" about this. Are any of you all in the same situation or have felt the same way? Any words or encouragement or help that you can offer me will be great...thanks fam, 
Dornetta 
"Just because you are blind, does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder

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