Jesus, he’s stuck in hospital cos there’s no nursing home places? That’s shocking. Poor fella.
The whole thing can be a bleedin nightmare BBROWN, you have my full sympathies.
I could write a book about all the fun I had.
The worst bit was my sister and her ex solicitor husband come church minister. She did foc all but shit stir whilst her ex-solicitor husband was happy to put her paranoid delusions down in legal terms firing off letters accusing me of all sorts shit. Between caring for my parents, fretting over bleeding money, dealing with my sister and the cuckoo gullible social worker my sister had wrapped round her finger for a good while, well I wondered if I was looking at the beginning of a nervous breakdown.
I ended up buying a pile of psychology books to try and figure out how to deal with my sister.
Anyway, main thing was I managed to do everything I needed to do for my folks, and at the end of the day stopped my sister from prioritising most of her shellfish wishes and desires over the real needs of her parents.
It’s a long long story.
POA. Yeah I found every organisation had a different approach. I ended up doing all the donkey work on that as well. All my sister did was, was once she had POA along with me, she went straight to the bank with the bulk of the cash – registered and then scooped up all the cash and passed it to an investment manager without even telling me and 100% against my mothers wishes. Foccing cow.
But generally, their procedures take time but eventually work out OK. Though every minute is precious when you are trying to care for parents. I dealt with RBS, Nationwide, Santander and Tesco bank – it all took time, but got there in the end with them all.
And as you know be careful with solicitors. The one I ended up using for everything, well they are never cheap but going by some of the stuff I’ve read they were well reasonable. And they didn’t charge for extra signed copies of POA and stuff which is very handy to have. Though inevitably the bill was a good bit higher than it needed to be thanks to my sister.
But yeah, I can appreciate the stress you’re all under BBROWN. Take it easy, or as easy as you can. It's a well worn path you are following just now bud.