I am so sorry people feel excluded on here. I am relatively new & feel the exact opposite.
The few threads I have started on here have always got responses & when asking for help with claiming Attendance Allowance & Council Tax exemption I was overwhelmed by the many posters offering advice.
I read some of the heartbreaking posts on here with t/p members, having for instance two parents in the latter stages, or one with dementia & the other physically ill, or with a partner/parent with dementia & problems with a son with drugs, or whatever with other members of their family & quite frankly I feel a fraud at the moment. The worst are the ones where their parents are really bad & still living alone & won't accept help, I am lucky enough not to have had that fight. My Dad knows & accepts he needs help.
My situation: I work 30 hours & have 'flexi' time if needed, my son is 15 (big enough to be left) my Dad (still in his own home) is 400 yards away. A situation I know many of you on here would envy.
I don't often respond to other posts, when I do it's in more of an advice capacity, with the little I know it's usually to new members, rather than a sympathy one. It's not that I don't care, believe me I do, I often have tears running down my cheeks when reading some posts. The odd ones I read out to my partner. I sometimes just find it hard to find the right words to reply when someone is going through the mill but it doesn't mean I don't care. I do care & the first thing I read after logging on is Grannie G, to see how Dihran is getting on.
No one need feel, or I believe
is excluded on here. Just my two pennorth
