The arranging starts to give up the house..

Saturday 25^th September 2010

Popped over to see all was Ok at mums, everything was in order.

Monday 27^th September

Laura and I got to mums house at 9am to wait for Social Service to pick up all the equipment that had to be returned to them, they arrived at 10.15am but they couldn’t get the frame off the armchair so they had to leave it on it, they said that it was Ok and not too worry about it.

I phoned and sorted BT (phone), EDF (Electricity and Gas) to be disconnected on the 16^th October.

We had decided to send all the unwanted bits and pieces to the British Legion for their poppy appeal jumble sale, instead of the charity shop, as mum was heavily involved with the women’s section as she had been the Chair woman of the Hawkhurst branch.  Dib came over and Laura and I helped him take all the boxes over to his house ready for them to take up to the British Legion store cupboard ready for the jumble sale.

I sorted some photos and put them all together to go through later, we also went though some paperwork, Laura got a bit upset when we found a lovely letter written to mum from Johns mum when Dad died.

Michael came in and we filled out the form to send to the Housing Association, I put his name, address and phone number on the form so that they could contact him with any queries.

Laura and I sorted through some more of the stuff in the front room and she took a few things home with her that were mums to keep as mementos.  We left just after 1pm.

When I got home there was a letter re; housing/council tax benefits asking for the date of the end of the tenancy, and the date when mum first went into the care home.  I wrote straight back to them enclosing all the details that they asked for in the letter.

I wrote to the water companies telling them the date that we would be ending the tenancy and asked for all correspondence to be send to me

Wednesday 29^th September

We parked outside mums room and we saw her through the window, John tapped on the window and she was really pleased to see us, when we got to her room the carer was getting her washed and dressed, she said that mum had put on 3 tops and 2 skirts when she first got dressed and that they had to take her and get her re-dressed, the carer was really nice and had a joke with mum about it.

Mum looked really well and happy, she is having trouble putting sentences together that make sense, but we managed to have a laugh and joke with her, it must be so frustrating for her.

She told us that Michael was starting work outside her window soon.  We walked back to the dining from with her to get her seated at the dining table ready for her lunch, she waved out of the window when we went.

Thursday 30^th September 2010   

Filled out the forms and sent cheque for the post to be redirected to here also wrote to the insurance company re her life insurance and post office with her change of account