Dealing with elderly parent while on the road
We are contemplating purchasing a MH and becoming "snow birds". My (wife) mother is 93 still lives alone and does not drive. I help as much as I can with groceries, dr appt etc. Does anyone have su...
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I'm in the same situation. My mother is 90, lives alone, has acreage / house she refuses to leave for something smaller, does not drive, and I'm the only child around to help her. My one sister lives over a thousand miles away, and the other sister is too consumed with the fermented brew so she has every excuse in the book for non-support!
That leaves me ... mow the grass (all 1 and 1/2 acres), get groceries, get prescriptions, take to doctor. The one good thing out of it though, is she watches our separation anxiety complex dogs during the day while we are at work. So we drop in on her every morning and every evening after work to drop off the dogs and then to pick them up. Still it get's really old day after day, and not having a life of your own.
There's no answer to your situation. Whenever we want to go camping, even for a week-end, she throws the "I'm so depressed because you were gone, I just wanted to die." guilt complex at me. It really is hard when you can't have your own life. I'm almost 60 years old myself now. I had a few good years independent of Mom, while in the military, my early married years. But now I just want to settle down and relax a bit slower myself, take care of my own yard, enjoy the camper, and fish a little.... But there's never a good time.....
Enjoy your parents while they're around though. Someday they'll be gone ... and then (I suppose), I'll have time for myself ...
That leaves me ... mow the grass (all 1 and 1/2 acres), get groceries, get prescriptions, take to doctor. The one good thing out of it though, is she watches our separation anxiety complex dogs during the day while we are at work. So we drop in on her every morning and every evening after work to drop off the dogs and then to pick them up. Still it get's really old day after day, and not having a life of your own.
There's no answer to your situation. Whenever we want to go camping, even for a week-end, she throws the "I'm so depressed because you were gone, I just wanted to die." guilt complex at me. It really is hard when you can't have your own life. I'm almost 60 years old myself now. I had a few good years independent of Mom, while in the military, my early married years. But now I just want to settle down and relax a bit slower myself, take care of my own yard, enjoy the camper, and fish a little.... But there's never a good time.....
Enjoy your parents while they're around though. Someday they'll be gone ... and then (I suppose), I'll have time for myself ...
