A Major Decision
Our good friends Ginty and Elwyn and her son Henry have come up up with a radical and informed suggestion for my future care. Ginty comes from a medical family and Henry is a doctor himself.
The suggestion was to rent a retirement flat at Thamesfield nursing home in Henley-on-Thames. The flat comes with nursing support as needed and would be a stepping stone to the 12 bed nursing home when needed. I rang Thamesfield for a viewing immediately.
We visited the place on Wednesday 2nd May and spent 3 hours there. Most of the worries we had thought up the previous day melted away as we met nursing managers and other staff. Both the public spaces and the flat itself were charming. The flat has been empty for 18 months, which is why the agents were offering it alone for rent. Nine other available flats are only for outright sale.
Having consulted family and my financial adviser and gained full support from Sandie, I put in an offer to rent on Tuesday 8th May.
If this goes through, as I expect, it will resolve the care issue over the later stages of the condition. That represents an enormous step forward in only a week and solves many open questions that had been on our minds. The plan will be to leave it unoccupied until needed and to furnish it in the meantime and to use it as an occasional holiday home.
We are very grateful to Ginty, Henry and Elwyn for the benefit of their knowledge and experience, not to mention energy, in coming up with a solution that we might never have found for ourselves.
The suggestion was to rent a retirement flat at Thamesfield nursing home in Henley-on-Thames. The flat comes with nursing support as needed and would be a stepping stone to the 12 bed nursing home when needed. I rang Thamesfield for a viewing immediately.
We visited the place on Wednesday 2nd May and spent 3 hours there. Most of the worries we had thought up the previous day melted away as we met nursing managers and other staff. Both the public spaces and the flat itself were charming. The flat has been empty for 18 months, which is why the agents were offering it alone for rent. Nine other available flats are only for outright sale.
Having consulted family and my financial adviser and gained full support from Sandie, I put in an offer to rent on Tuesday 8th May.
If this goes through, as I expect, it will resolve the care issue over the later stages of the condition. That represents an enormous step forward in only a week and solves many open questions that had been on our minds. The plan will be to leave it unoccupied until needed and to furnish it in the meantime and to use it as an occasional holiday home.
We are very grateful to Ginty, Henry and Elwyn for the benefit of their knowledge and experience, not to mention energy, in coming up with a solution that we might never have found for ourselves.
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