It is Permanent

Mum has decided that she likes this new place. Good food, nice people to talk to and lots of things to do and best of all safety and security. They are temporarily in the building's guest suite and we all know it is too small but, ...hurrah and hallelujah, they will be moving into a permanent suite as soon as possible, maybe this week or next. This is really good news because with everyone on board, that is, all of the health care professionals, we can get regular day help for Dad.
Barry has been fighting an uphill battle with the pencil pushing bureaucrats who seem to want to keep their blotter clean. One actually said to him that our parents had lived a good long life and maybe it is just time to let them go.
What????
Our parents have fought in wars for the bean counters and pencil pushers right to live in a free country and enjoy well paid jobs with big pensions, (anything is bigger than Mum and Dad's because they don't have any) and now they should just be pushed to the curb so that there will be less work and cost for the system? Outrageous!!!!

You looked shocked! Yes, ma'am/sir, this is true, one of them actually made that comment. I am mad enough to call the papers....except, no one reads the papers anymore.

So, Barry made some calls and now their doctors are getting involved and the geratrician assessment that we ordered weeks ago is suddenly available and immediate.
Help is on the way and the cavalry is coming.

Our biggest concern has always been that Dad will get his chest catheter wet and develop another toxic infection because he is not able to take care of the bathing and personal care that is necessary. We had a wonderful home help system in the house but we all knew that the days were numbered for that fantasy world.

So everyday we field a barrage of calls to and from the medical system and now Barry has, it seems, got things finally underway in the right direction. Thank goodness we have each other to talk to and moan about this circumstance and we still can see the humour in all of it. So far.