20-04-2024, 01:59 PM
Mica my kids and I have just started down that road of what is the next best move .I am staying put at the moment as I can cope but it niggles in the back of my mind if something drastic happens and I am not able to care for myself my options are lessened - but if I was in assisted care in a unit now the move to hospital type care is an easy step .There are elderly people stuck in hospital as there is nowhere for them to go - the kids I am sure would be happier if I made the move sooner or later - the units seemed so overpriced to me then there was ongoing weekly charges - the kids would cover any shortfall but it seemed a bit of a rip off for me .
We downsized when we moved to Oz - I got rid of a lot of stuff - stored quite a bit and took very little with us - when we came back my husband had been already diagnosed as terminal- we had lost a lot of money on the sale of our Taupo house so bought a two story house in Napier to come back to - turned out to be entirely unsuitable for my unwell husband and was two big for me - 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms so I sold up and moved into my 2 bedroom art deco dream cottage - by todays standards it’s really only 1.5 bedrooms - huge wide hall - dining room as big as the lounge - washing machine is in the bathroom and the dryer in the shed - the kitchen is tiny and inconvenient but I love it - has large windows and gets plenty of sun and I love it’s square chunky exterior - my grandchildren thought I was nuts moving from my lovely house in Taupo then in Napier into this - but I have always loved art deco .My neighbour had a heart attack the6 have been in their house 35 years but are moving into a unit as he worries about her - she doesn’t drive and they don’t have any family support.They are the immediate neighbours of the community house where the four mentally challenged adults live and have been responsible for the community house being the only one that survived in Napier so they are going to leave a huge hole - she was brilliant during Gabrielle when we had no power - she had a little gas cooker and was up and down the street gathering thermoses to fill with hot water - she arrived over one night with two sausages a slice of bacon and some mashed spud - had been four days since I had any hot food - I savoured every mouthful .Robie couldn’t get to me so I really appreciated her so did he - she will be missed in the neighbourhood
I went up this morning to check how the motel family are handling the pet/house sitting - the kids are having a ball - she said they have spent most of the time out on the lawn - hopefully if everything goes to plan next week she won’t go back into the motel - fingers crossed
I had a nice Bodum air fryer and a phillips multi cooker which slow cooked beautifully- my DIL decided that what I needed was a ninja 15 in 1 - it slow cooks ,bakes air fry’s and does everything else including yoghurt and bakes bread .I know it’s a fault of mine but I like to have input into my decisions big or small - anyway I used my new machine and stuffed up - stacked the contents wrong and the chicken attached itself to the element - instruction book says don’t use any abrasives so tried with a toothbrush and hot soapy water as book suggested - unsuccessful so new bloody heavy cooker has gone into the spare room for somebody else to deal with and my two old friends are back out - I know my grandaughter will be smirking that I did it intentionally but I didn’t - she spent $600 on the blimmin thing -back in the day I used to make yoghurt and dehydrate stuff - sound ungrateful
We downsized when we moved to Oz - I got rid of a lot of stuff - stored quite a bit and took very little with us - when we came back my husband had been already diagnosed as terminal- we had lost a lot of money on the sale of our Taupo house so bought a two story house in Napier to come back to - turned out to be entirely unsuitable for my unwell husband and was two big for me - 4 bedrooms 2 bathrooms so I sold up and moved into my 2 bedroom art deco dream cottage - by todays standards it’s really only 1.5 bedrooms - huge wide hall - dining room as big as the lounge - washing machine is in the bathroom and the dryer in the shed - the kitchen is tiny and inconvenient but I love it - has large windows and gets plenty of sun and I love it’s square chunky exterior - my grandchildren thought I was nuts moving from my lovely house in Taupo then in Napier into this - but I have always loved art deco .My neighbour had a heart attack the6 have been in their house 35 years but are moving into a unit as he worries about her - she doesn’t drive and they don’t have any family support.They are the immediate neighbours of the community house where the four mentally challenged adults live and have been responsible for the community house being the only one that survived in Napier so they are going to leave a huge hole - she was brilliant during Gabrielle when we had no power - she had a little gas cooker and was up and down the street gathering thermoses to fill with hot water - she arrived over one night with two sausages a slice of bacon and some mashed spud - had been four days since I had any hot food - I savoured every mouthful .Robie couldn’t get to me so I really appreciated her so did he - she will be missed in the neighbourhood
I went up this morning to check how the motel family are handling the pet/house sitting - the kids are having a ball - she said they have spent most of the time out on the lawn - hopefully if everything goes to plan next week she won’t go back into the motel - fingers crossed
I had a nice Bodum air fryer and a phillips multi cooker which slow cooked beautifully- my DIL decided that what I needed was a ninja 15 in 1 - it slow cooks ,bakes air fry’s and does everything else including yoghurt and bakes bread .I know it’s a fault of mine but I like to have input into my decisions big or small - anyway I used my new machine and stuffed up - stacked the contents wrong and the chicken attached itself to the element - instruction book says don’t use any abrasives so tried with a toothbrush and hot soapy water as book suggested - unsuccessful so new bloody heavy cooker has gone into the spare room for somebody else to deal with and my two old friends are back out - I know my grandaughter will be smirking that I did it intentionally but I didn’t - she spent $600 on the blimmin thing -back in the day I used to make yoghurt and dehydrate stuff - sound ungrateful