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Also his care needs may not have required a licensed proffesional.

He may have just needed an attendant to supervise his daily activities.

To have a live in careprovider that person has to really meld in well with the whole family.

I knew a little guy who was indeed severly autistic (not saying Jett was) and he could flee the scene in a blink of an eye.

I told his mom who clearly had the funds I would put locks on the kitchen cabinets and keep a key on my pants as he loved to dump the sugar/flour ect out on the floor as quick as his mom would turn her back.

They also live on the corner of a major hwy and he would go wander out onto the highway.
I though putting up a chain link fence that enclosed with a roof around the play area so he could play safely outside but well not my choice.

Being innovative is something I enjoy about being a careprovider.

If you can reduce daily living stress and have more free time for quality family time together than it makes the tough days less challenging.
For all we know and we dont the fellow helping out in Jetts care was just a third set of hands for all we know John was the primary careprovider but having a wife and daughter it would be very wise to have another set of hands and if John got along well with the fellow as well as Jett and his duties were clear than good for them.

There was a little gal with CP quad who her folks loaded her up in the van to go to church they went back into the house to lock up ect...and returned to see a plastic bag had blown into the van and suffocated their child. How rare is that?

But it sure made an impression on me never leave plastic bags in the van. Learn from anothers tragedy.

Accidents do happen and in this blame blame PC world seems no one can accept that.

CNN just had some pics of Jett up and he was a handsome lad.

I watched several programs last night with indepth information about this past weekend. In fact Jett and the Travlota family and friends all went boating all day the day before he died. He was very tired when they returned and he went to bed. HE normally slept 12 - 16 hours a day. They not only had the two nannies who shared his quarters, they had a baby monitor to alert them if he moved around and a bell on the bathroom door to alert if he went into the bathroom. No one heard the baby monitor or the bell. (being a boater I can attest after a day on the water and in the sun people sleep very sound). The last time anyone actually looked at him he was sleeping. Sometime he got up and went to the bathroom, hard to do a timeline because people were sleeping, just didn't hear the monitors put into place to keep tabs on him.

I addition to boating he was seen swimming and playing with his father in the water during the vacation and we have all seen picture of he and Kelly walking on the beach. He was not a bed-ridden invalid, they tried to give him as normal a life as possible, but his seizures were severe and became more frequent and uncontrollable == even when he was taking the meds. They evidentally didn't do any surgery to try and aleviate them.