Jude I agree. Craig does deserve a medal, what would we have done if he hadn't pushed to set up this site. Was reading about it on the main site. Must have been quite daunting wondering if anyone would turn up, bit like hosting a party! Boy did he get some crazy gatecrashers in!
Thanks both of you for the good wishes. I really don't want to go here tomorrow and I know dad will hide behind me, and I will be so upset that I'll babble for Ireland, trying to hide all the horrible emotions with banal conversation. I really don't want to send her anywhere, I see her wee face smiling at me from the sofa happy in her home and I feel like a selfish pig. Will go and see this place but will probably not put her in. Maybe this direct payment thing is worth a try. I wonder is it working well for anyone? There's never much info about it, everyone seems a bit cagey about it. I feel like I am being pushed towards nursing home respite and possible placement, this is really not the help I want. I want her in her own home I just cannot do all of this alone. If my sister would split it between us, we wouldn't need anyone.
As if all this isn't enough, kitchen ceiling is cracked and leaking, Jude you and I seem to be living in Waterworld!
Brucie you couldn't be boring if you tried, nor you Jude. I was just thinking today of what little I know about some of the carers here, there really are very exceptional people here, whom have lived very colourful lives and have some wonderful talents. Jude and her travels and colourful love life (I won't mention the policeman!) Brucie and Norman being published authors and the incredible love stories they have with their wives. Chesca, an acid tongued accomplished musician, Irish Storm (there's probably quite a story there if I know the Irish), Sheila carer for others, then her mum, now us. And all the other host of wee angels whom just drop in to have a peep at the nightly madness, unheard, unseen.
This would make a great movie. Pity the title, "City of Angels" is already taken.