A state spending freeze has stranded 8,000 Georgians with developmental disabilities on a Medicaid waiver waiting list. The waivers pay for professional caregivers who help people with developmental disabilities. Nina Howard, 74, took in her nephew Larrone after he moved from New York when his mother died. She needs the waiver to pay for someone who can care for Larrone if she can't do it anymore. I wake up in the middle of the night, between two and four, saying, 'what is today going to bring?'