[unclebilly]

Well…

I got ‘the call’ last Wednesday. A spot at the private long term care facility has opened up for my father. My options were to move him in on Thursday or on this coming Tuesday (Long weekend and all). I couldn’t make last Thursday work as I was on vacation with my family at the time so tomorrow morning I am flying back to where my father lives, packing up some of his clothes and stuff, picking him up at the hospital on Tuesday morning at 8:15 AM and flying him to Alberta.

This has been a long time coming and I’m very apprehensive about how the next 48 hours will go. Traveling with someone who has dementia is not fun.

When I got the call, I immediately bought dad a wheel chair and brought it to the hospital so the OT there could get it adjusted properly for him, I sent a bunch of his artwork and pictures from his house to Calgary so it could be hung up in his suite before he got there (the courier managed to wreck the frames), and then continued with our vacation. We got home last night (stopped at IKEA to get new frames) and I spent today getting the rest of the stuff he needs.

The plan is for my wife (and hopefully my brother) to get to the facility an hour or so before us to get his suite set up.

Wish me luck, this could go smoothly or be a total 5hit show… I’m hoping for the former.