my father

[King Bob]

Well my mother moved to assisted living on Thursday 3/12. It went pretty well - she only cried a little. On the other hand, she has pretty much not left her room except to eat with us, and lies about it (giving conflicting stories or stories refuted by talking to staff). I guess so far not so good, but she couldn't afford to stay in the house and is safer and better fed (if she will go to eat) here. Plus she will have to walk further than the length of her house, so she should get a little more mobile.

On the other hand, her house is really something! She was a hoarder. I am finding junk mail in every drawer I open, and there were cancelled checks back to about 1980, and tax returns back to 1990. And I am amazed at how many clothes she had when she wore the same few things over and over; every bedroom closet is full of her hanging clothes. And all sorts of crap any normal person would have thrown away - in one closet there was a pull-up diaper, and my niece and nephew are now 13 and 17! It is really unbelievable. I peeked up into the garage attic and there were about 15-20 pieces of luggage up there. They never threw the old ones away when they got new ones! Once we go through all the papers we may just hire someone to clean it out, or we will have to get a dumpster.