Saturday, 7 December 2013
On The Road
We are heading south today to make what we hope will be our final contribution to the clearing of my mother's flat, for which a buyer has been found. We shall return with a car full of stuff. CDs and a CD deck, books, lamps, filing cabinet containing all my mother's paperwork, a mirror, a clothes airer, a bread crock, bowls, vases and ornaments, pictures, curtains, food items, and goodness knows what else besides. Pragmatic, sad, slightly anxious, here I am, and in a couple of hours we'll be on the road. Tomorrow we'll go into London to visit my Mum for the afternoon. She has been diagnosed with early Alzheimers dementia, and I guess we're all slowly absorbing this information (except her I suspect).
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3 comments:
So sorry to learn about your Mother's health. It's a sad time for you, even the going through a lifetime of belongings. Take care.
I am so sorry. My father is also in the early stages of dementia and has been placed in a care home. My mother is trying to come to terms with living alone for the first time in her life. Thursday, December 5 was their 66th Wedding Anniversary. My sisters and I are also struggling with this all. Big hugs to you.
Hugs and thoughts of you during this hard time. The fact that it's wintertime either makes it feel somehow worse or more fitting, I can't tell which. So many blog friends writing the same type of stories just now...
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