Thread:This is Mistress Kat/@comment-35175794-20180605181717/@comment-35243530-20180606015148

Thanks Habrish!! No questions at the moment - but that time may come. Mum has been deteriorating over the last dozen or so years, but up until October we still had Dad with us. We think that’s what likely caused his health to fail - keeping her home until last June and being her primary care giver because she refused to move. Granted, he was 94, but he’d been in excellent health until that point. They had lived near my son and I until that point, spending summers at our cottage about 3 1/2 hours away, near Mum’s home town. He made the decision to move them into a retirement facility near the cottage, so that Mum could live out her last years near “home” and they could go to the cottage by taxi if they wished. Unfortunately. That’s become a wee bit inconvenient. My son would like to move her back here, but my sister and I have guardianship and we’re trying to respect Dad’s wishes. Of course, my sister is a few thousand miles away, so it doesn’t really matter to her...

At this point we’re looking into long term care. The list is only two years long for a spot, so time to get moving on that! Luckily, at this point she is coping quite well in an assisted living apartment. The residence wanted to move her into a dementia wing, but she loves her little apartment and we’d rather not take that away before necessary. As it turns out, our decision still seems to be the right one - for now. I just dread having to move her again!!

Anyway, thanks again - and for listening to me babble here!

Mistress Kat