I guess it started back in May 2014 when my dad died. My mum and dad had been married for nearly 48 years when he went. My mum said "I always imagined us riding off in the sunset together." She is fiercely independent. I'm sure that I have a reputation as stubborn; I get that from her.
But increasingly over the last couple of years, as her sight has deteriorated to the point that she is now legally blind, she has become more vulnerable. We think that the blindness is beginning to cause her confusion by Charles Bonnet Syndrome Things came to a head a week or so ago when a stranger (and we still don't know who it was) found mum about a quarter of a mile from her bungalow, wearing no shoes, at about 1am. Thank fook he was a good Samaritan and he managed to get mum back to her house. It's not the first time mum has got lost outside, but it's the worst. I don't like to think about what might have happened. Dark nights, fast cars...
But anyway over the last few months, as we've become increasingly aware of her decline, my brother and I have been working to try to work out what is best for mum. This latest incident means that we rushed over this weekend. We have found a place in a local care home and pending them confimring that they can meet mum's needs, she can move in there really soon, hopefully even this week.
Normally I would have approached the Heartland Full Effect for support; I love you lot, even the ones I don't like
but it's been such hard work trying to get mum somewhere safe that I haven't eben had the time to come on here.I promise to do better.
... all the best wishes from here ... 
