Wednesday, April 08, 2009

A few pics of the other home

I thought I still had a few shots of the other special care home that I was telling you about that I looked at a couple of years ago and where I would consider moving mom now. Sorry that some of the inside shots are quite dark, but it was the view I was after. The place is really, really nice. I would live there! And that's saying a lot! It is fairly close by, though not any closer than where she is now. Thing is, a move would be a major upheaval for mom at this point. She will be 89 in October. And she would have considerably less space in her room. Right now, she almost has two rooms: she has a small anteroom with a sink and cupboards and a small fridge and then she has a large bedroom with her own recliner that will raise her up when she wants to stand. She has had a hip replacement and has arthritis in most of her joints, so the chair is a big help, and there would not be room for her chair in her room at the place below, though she could have it in the living room there, I believe. Where she is now is a former hospital building. Forty residents on 2 floors. It's very clean, much more institutional, and no views. But she IS used to it... Also, an opening DID come up at the other place exactly 1 month after she moved to where she is now. I asked her then if she wanted to move and her answer at that point was no. But that was just after one major move and before the water problem and the commode thing... Ugh... What to do... And she had always lived by a lake and swam in it until she was 80 years old... Double ugh... In any case, I thought I would show you some pics to give you an idea of what I am struggling with....






1 comment:

Mark in DE said...

Seems like a beautiful setting!