Parents ill and 100s of miles away  (20 Posts) UnquietDad Mon
24-May-10 22:23:14  Sorry if people have been doing this for
ages and know all about it. I am totally clueless. Parents are
almost 200 miles away, a 3-hour car journey at least. Other
siblings are further away and are totally fucking useless. Will
not get involved and will not offer any advice or help - keep
batting everything back to me.  My father's in a home, needs
full-time care. My mother's just recovering from a heart-attack
and is coming home from hospital very soon. I've been to see
her. The hospital say she needs someone at home for 2 weeks. We
(DW and I) will do the first few days. Nobody else in the family
has offered to do anything else.  So... given that there must be
THOUSANDS of people in this situation...  What the hell do
people DO in these situations??  Obviously we have DD and DS
(primary school age) and our home and jobs and life here and
cannot just uproot our lives. Things have to go on. I have to do
various pieces of work whi