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Originally Posted by Dottore
...I had the brilliant idea to put word out in the Filipino community through some friends of mine. Today, like pilot fish, they picked the place clean and were both delighted and grateful. Everything my parents owned is now being re-used by people who really appreciate these things, and that's a fine feeling.
All's well that ends well.
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That's great Mark. My mom passed several years ago, two months short of her 94th birthday. She'd been living in an assisted living apartment for the last 3 years of her life and her caregivers were all Filipinas and Mexicanas and took wonderful care of her.
My mom was a real corker and I even went to see the director once because I was afraid I was going to be told to find another place for her to live (she was
very outspoken) and the director laughed at me and said, yes, my mom was a character, but a beloved character.
The facility had a strict rule that the caregivers could not accept anything from the residents but I went to the director when my mom passed and was adament that I wanted her to relax that rule because my mom really wanted her possesions to be given to her caregivers if they wanted them.
She resisted, I persisted and won. All of her caregivers were alloted an hour in the morning and they all, the one's who weren't working that shift coming in from home, came to my mom's apartment and took absolutely everything, including the custom drapes that my brother had hung over her living room window.
The afternoon before, I made arrangements for her room cleaner, a little Mexican lady barely 4 feet tall, to go to her car where I carried the telivision/camera reading device (Mom had severe macular degeneration) to her car. My mom had promised it to her for her mother who lived in Mexico. The little lady broke down in tears as I lifted it into her hatchback and gave me a great hug.
I felt great because I knew these ladies were taking my mom's possesions to be used by their families and not to be sold at the swap meet and because I felt that it was the last thing that I could do for my mom.