I got an email from a friend who was in a similar situation to me: her mother, who she had a very difficult relationship with, got dementia, and she had to get Deputyship for her.
It was basically a very negative email, outlining how awful it had been for her, how expensive and time consuming it was, how useless all the social workers and other staff had been, how unhelpful her friends and relatives were etc. She said she just wanted to warn me.
However, she should have put some positivity and support in the email. One long essay about negative aspects of the situation is completely unhelpful and I'm going to disregard it.
It's like those women who launch into a detailed account of their childbirth experience and how awful it was, gleefully telling a newly pregnant woman all the gory details.
It is far from helpful because all situations are different.
Personally, I have no resources to help my mother with. I have no friends or available family to help me with her, I am 3 hours drive away and I rarely drive now as I lost confidence in the lockdown/pandemic. THERE. IS. NO. ONE. BUT. ME. to support my family and myself, so I just have to let things go how they go and whatever happens, happens.
I was pleased that I now have my Out of Office reply on though so this friend got the 'Sorry, I'm unavailable right now' message.
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