Good Morning Thursday

Thank you for all your kind wishes. Posting late after funeral over very emotional and moving so sad to say goodbye but she is at peace now. Your thoughts have made this day berable.thank you x

I am very sorry to hear of your sad predicament moom.I think you would get more responses if you started your own thread. As you are new I suggest you contact Granset ,tell them where your post is and ask them to re-post it for you. You will find the email address under FAQs at the top of the page. Do persevere as I am sure there are many on here who could help.

Moom you are indeed caught on the horns of a dilemma ! You Daughter needs to try to help herself , but I have no idea how to get through to her . Addicts need to WANT to come off things , you can't do that for her , I am sorry not to have a plan for you ,you are doing all you can , maybe the professionals can advise

First time I've ever done this - it's probably in the wrong place? My husband and I ( both 70) have a 37 year old, mentally-challenging and physically ill daughter ( she is hiv positive) who has come home to live with us for the last year as she has no job, no partner, no friends and nowhere to live ( she had been living in London in various dreadful flats which she always managed to wreck or fall out with the Landlord). She is also a recovering addict of various substances and alcohol ( which she seems to at least now have under control). She has returned home many times, always unsuccessfully and for much shorter periods. She suffers from serious post traumatic stress and over the last 10 years we have both been very involved in her life, doing everything and anything to try and help her. We have rescued her from squats, flats, police stations and psychiatric hospital wards. Nothing we have done has really helped her - and she seems incapable of helping herself despite our constant help (physical and financial), our support and our love. We have now found her 2 specialist counsellors to help get her out of bed each day and a specialist to help with some new "treatment" for her PTSD. We make sure she attends her appointments and we get her to her hiv clinic too. But despite this she is not willing to put anything else into a potential 'recovery' although it is common knowledge with all mentally-challenging health issues that good routines, good food and exercise will strengthen and help alongside other treatments. This is tearing us both apart and ruining our older age and marriage. We are all cooped together in a tiny house just watching her not improve. I also have a commitment to my 99 year old mother who is dying quietly in a local nursing home and I try to help our other daughter with our 3 grandchildren. I am permanently exhausted, depressed and bad tempered and I don't know what to do. I didn't think life could be this horrible at 70? We are now considering asking our very sick daughter to leave by the end of this year. What should we do??

Good Evening Mick; Another lovely day, warm 25C and dry, so a second day out with Freda. She has plenty of torque (not the girly sort!) and does everything I ask of her; It's a joy to ride her! OoRoo

Oh dear love beige cardigan...if only you knew. The last thing I want to remember is my mean, self-centred old bat of a mother. It was always me me me and I came low on her list of priorities. I’m a great sewer but would have to put a very large gusset in these breeks! I’m still at a loss what to do with them.

Woke up this morning to complete white-out! Ca. 20 cms of fresh fluffy white stuff. Tree branches bending precariously meaning we had to go out and brush off the snow with a broom. Notwithstanding, just about to go out for a daily constutional although waiting until the commuters return after their lunch as otherwise we would be spashed with slush!

Hi GillHulme good to have you join us & congratulations on your new family member!
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Thank you ?

Welcome to GN GillHulme it is very friendly here!

Hello everyone. Have just signed up to this website as a new grannie ( Grandson is now 4 months old). Lovely to read how you support each other.

Morning frost and mist here first thing sun came out briefly now it's dull. Should go shopping should get some cleaning done but I may just read my book instead. Where has my get up and go gone?

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Good morning everyone,
It was quite bright earlier on, but the clouds are now rolling in and it's getting windier, though as I type, the sun is putting in an appearance.
Enjoy your trip to see Phantom, Mick and those of you going out with other GN's for coffee and cake, have a lovely time.
I've a visit to the dentist this afternoon, so had better remember my purse!
Enjoy your day, whatever you are doing. ?

? for you on this very sad day Harris

We had the same poem read by the humanist at my mum’s funeral last March mythbirt as it was one of her favourites too and we all wore some item which was purple. Sad but a comfort.

A late good morning from a very cold and rainy Black Country!

Work in the kitchen is still ongoing. I have a U3A monthly meeting this afternoon, which is also the AGM. I will be booking 2 trips, one to Cardiff and one to Berkeley Castle.

Thinking of you today Harris

Thinking of you Harris. Missing the meet-up with the GNs this afternoon thanks to a hospital appointment which they didn’t tell me about until last week!

Good morning from east London where I'm sure there were white patches on the sports field early on. Now going grey. Nothing planned for today apart from choir this evening but just had a request to pick up GD from school, take her to her swimming lesson then drop her to a friend's house as DD has been unable to change her shift.

Harris, hope all goes well for you today. I read the poem 'warning' which starts with the line 'when I grow old I shall wear purple' at my mam's funeral. I did feel better for having done it as it was her favourite poem and said probably more about her than other tributes.

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Morning all from a fairly overcast South Notts. I really ought to get on with the dreaded housework today but I hate it and would rather read, sew, etc.
If you have any sewing skills, could you make the trousers into something else, oldgaijin which would remind you of your mum?
Hope all is well with everyone.

Good morning All x
Bright sunny and breezy here in the NW, a good job as I had to was a couple of throws this morning where one of the cats was sick on. Oh the joys of animals ! Anyway both throws are blowing nicely.

Not the best of nights when I'd realised my medication hadn't been delivered so started to worry. I'd emailed the repeat last Friday so gave the surgery plenty of time. This isn't the first time it's happened and it's really maddening. Looks like I'll have to phone both GP'surgery and pharma which defeats the whole object of the present arrangement.

I'll just sit back and see what the day brings. I wish everyone else a pleasant day and glad to learn that Gillybob is now sparing some time for herself and her own health !

Good morning from a now bright NE. Thunder and lightning woke me at 5am and then the hail storm started, I thought the roof tiles were going to crack.
Quiet day at home today.

Good morning all from a soggy Aberdeenshire...another day of dreichness, wet, wet, wet. Even the mutt has turned over and gone back to sleep and I can't possibly disturb him.
Yesterday, I checked my late Ma's house and amongst all the junk mail was a M&S parcel containing a pair of quite nice cotton chinos. It was addressed to her by name and the slip inside said they were paid in store, £25 + p&p. Now the weird bit...she died nearly two years ago. Is there a branch of Markies in the afterlife? What should I do with the trousers? Exchange or return? They don't fit me! Suggestions please. Have a good day everyone.

Thank you dragonfly x

Thinking of you Harris