I thought I would update you about where I am and what I've been doing.
While I was camping in Klamath Falls, I got a call that my mother had fallen again. So I packed up the van and headed down to Central California. When I arrived, I was shocked at the sight of my mother, who was on the couch, very weak and frail looking.
After a bit of a discussion, the decision was made to sell her house in Hanford and move her up to Oregon where she would be closer to me and the rest of the family. Mom had actually spoken to a real estate agent the week before who had given her a price. I called a real estate agent, who came out the next day. She insisted she could sell the house in 24 hours and said she could get $20K more than the previous agent had said. I asked mom to give this lady 30 days, mom agreed, and we listed it.
I'll be danged if we didn't have an offer for her full price within 24 hours of the listing going live!
So... by myself, I packed up my mother's 4 bedroom 2 bath home, and rented a U-Haul truck. My youngest son flew down, and together with a neighbor, we packed up the truck. We had to leave a few things behind, but she was able to bring most up to Oregon, where we stored it all in my son's 2nd garage.
In the meantime, my son had found the perfect house here in Oregon and we put an offer on it contingent upon seeing it in person. We went to see it the day after we arrived, and fell in love with it.
Mom's house in CA closes escrow on Tuesday and the house here closes one week later.
Mom is doing a lot better here. She is eating better, but having difficulty swallowing and only weighs about 85 pounds. I have the name of a doctor here and am trying to get her an appointment set up for after we move into our house.
I'm doing "ok."
I'm definitely exhausted, but hanging in there.
Just a couple more weeks to get settled in and then I hope to get some rest. I was unable to continue with my Physical Therapy appointments but have tried to stretch and massage my incision here at home. I can tell that I need to do more, but right now, other things are more important, like getting mom settled in.
What a hell of a year it's been!?
It can only get better, right?
Here are some photos of our new home. The house is going into my name, so I won't be vanning for a while:
