re: #286 Alouette

Parents would actually live in the same house with their children. And their children were privileged to take care of them!

I havn’t been home in four months now except to stop in and air the place out. Dad is going and mom is not that far behind, I sleep on the trundle bed in the cramped (packed full of mementos) second bedroom and get to play fulltime home health aide all day. I do dishes, drive to doctors appointments, do laundry, cook meals, clean carpets, scrub bathrooms, and take out the trash…sigh.

But they are my parents and my brother and sister cannot be bothered so it has fallen on me. Eventually this will be over and I will be back in my own condo, but I’m certainly in no hurry, I just never expected to be doing this in my own retirement.