u/Severe_Medium_535

I've posted on here before at the beginning of our placement. The general consensus was to give the placement time for everyone to get into a routine, and some of my severe discomfort has truly been addressed by that additional time.

However, I am really at a point where I'm just not sure if we're the right placement for this foster OR whether we're just not right for fostering at all at this time.

Some of the issues present are that our placement is medically complex, and we are essentially nurses. This also limits being outside of the home (we are both approximately 30 yo, and that is a major change as well). Others are the constant doctor visits, constant arguments with pharmacists/home medical providers, and otherwise the general state and agency visits. Just yesterday, we learned we needed to have a monthly pediatrician appointment. I am a single child and caregiver to my mother who has advanced dementia, and we are in the process of figuring out when assisted living will have to be transitioned towards. I feel like I may implode.

Oh, also we found out yesterday that our social worker is leaving and no one has told us anything at all about it or the things she was supposed to be working on.

We went into being licensed with the request of only doing respite. I had never consistently been around children, and we wanted to start slow. This was also considering our extensive responsibilities in our jobs/families/communities. Instead of ever doing respite, we were encouraged to take in a med. complex placement who had been abandoned in in-patient treatment by their prior family. We had never had any med complex training, and getting all of that training + the first year foster trainings has been an additional stressor. We said yes because the situation really touched our hearts BUT I think we failed to truly understand what we were getting into.

I guess I'm just looking for understanding that we're not monsters for feeling like this. We've started bonding with the placement, but I just don't see how this works. Could we go longer? Probably. Would we be happy and successful? I do not think so. I think we likely fail our placement, my family, and our jobs.

In my job, we routinely deal with documents designated as confidential, and they are typically done with a watermark alongside the top of the document. I have used Nitro PDF for several years amalgamating these pdfs into one document (they sometimes come in tranches). Today, I ran into the combined pdf having those watermarks removed making it a bit of a landmine. Does anyone have experience with this and have a solution?

Today I picked up Claude on the suggestion of one of my colleagues in Plaintiff employment. I simply wanted to see if it could give me a decent table of contents while applying a little research to highlight important elements. I chose a case that is about 85% positive to settle in two weeks, and I already had a discovery breakdown for it.

Other than the fact you run through your usage allowance quickly, it did a startlingly decent job of it. Has anyone else had experience using Claude and have suggestions for prompts and processes to utilize it optimally? Due to not caring about the billable hour, it really seems like it may quicken and improve my doc review practices.