Well, Mum has now been in the home for 6 months, and is calmer and physically healthier. But she's still adamant there's nothing wrong with her (she has a diagnosis of mixed VaD/AD confirmed by doctors and OTs/CPNs and so on) and that she wants to go home - as confirmed to two neighbours who visited her on Monday. The home staff - who've been really good - report that she seems reasonaby happy most of the time, but that the 'going home' issue won't go away lightly.
Unfortunately, we're now at the stage where we have to do something about the house, and have therefore spoken to three lettings agencies, having taken professional advice from a friend in the industry in our own area. Basically the house is reasonably ok - we have a minor guttering repair and some minor decorating to do. But the house will let far more easily unfurnished, so time has come to ship out the furniture (a friend can house most of it for the time being), deal with the insurance company, the utilities and Uncle Tom Cobbley et al, ad then put it in the rental market to pay the gap between her income and the fees.
Anyone who has already been through this stage who has advice, words of wisdom - or simply of comfort - would be very welcome to chip in at this point. It's been a long hard struggle to get this far, and it's not feeling a great deal easier.
(It doesn't help that the neighbours let slip they'd seem us cleaning the house, so Mum may well think we're cleaning it for her to go home to. Next vsit is going to be a fraught one, I can tell.)
Unfortunately, we're now at the stage where we have to do something about the house, and have therefore spoken to three lettings agencies, having taken professional advice from a friend in the industry in our own area. Basically the house is reasonably ok - we have a minor guttering repair and some minor decorating to do. But the house will let far more easily unfurnished, so time has come to ship out the furniture (a friend can house most of it for the time being), deal with the insurance company, the utilities and Uncle Tom Cobbley et al, ad then put it in the rental market to pay the gap between her income and the fees.
Anyone who has already been through this stage who has advice, words of wisdom - or simply of comfort - would be very welcome to chip in at this point. It's been a long hard struggle to get this far, and it's not feeling a great deal easier.
(It doesn't help that the neighbours let slip they'd seem us cleaning the house, so Mum may well think we're cleaning it for her to go home to. Next vsit is going to be a fraught one, I can tell.)