Thank you *ssd* and thank you HelenMNHQ...

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Thanks to ssd for starting the petition in Site Stuff - and thank you HelenMNHQ for letting us know it's up and running.

Hear hear.

offers to christen our new topic!

Yes - many thanks!

thanks to you all too!

think this'll help many of us.............we're not alone girls!

Oh, good grief, this couldn't have come at a better time for me. Thank you so much ssd for getting this going. Not going to post much now as about to do bath/bed, but am struggling with DM and DF (74, 80) now and have no siblings to call upon. This topic will be such a great safe place to share rant and rave

Congrats ssd, I'm really pleased for you, and hope you are feeling a bit better now you've got a thread

I may pop in for a ARRRGH and the odd sniff every now and again as my two are 79 and disabled+very ill 80. Thanks for the section...

oh good call! I hope it gets noticed.

This would have been wonderful last year. I did get help from other topics but a defined one would have been great when I was coping with full time job, unwell spouse, DC doing A levels and GCSEs plus main carer for dad with dementia.
He died just before Christmas and I'm now passing on all our hard earned experience to my sister who's going through same with her FIL.
Great thread - hope those who need it find their way to it asap.

incase anyone is looking its in "other stuff"

Yes thank you ssd, this section will come in handy. I will be lurking.

I've just found this, and am so so glad we now have a place to talk on here. I haven't posted regularly on MN for ages, but think this topic might just keep me sane right now.

I'm a social worker with over 65s, previously in hospital discharge, so hopefully have some professional knowledge that may be useful to folks here. But I also have a father with dementia, who has had a major stroke today and is now in hospital (goodness knows what the future holds) and a mother who is his carer and not in briliiant health either.

While I know what to do on a practical and professional level, I'm finding it quite hard emotionally - and feel sort of guilty about it, as I'm meant to be the family expert, because of my job.

Hope alls well with your dad. Yes this thread has been a great help and I'm so grateful to ssd for petitioning for it.

oh, thanks girls!

its so hard when its personnel, isnt it TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench

good luck with your dad and keep posting!

I just found this part of the site today (new to MN anyway) - I second what everyone else says. thank you

Where is this thread/petition?

there isnt a petition reeling, and you're on the thread now

I think the posters just mean its good we have an elderly parents section and we can write different threads within it, as and when it suits us and our circumstances

feel free to join in

I miss mine dreadfully but would have appreciated this when I was the sole carer for my DPs, (I don't regret it for a moment, but my father did have 4 DCs .....)

violet, can I just ask, where you left to do all the looking after and your siblings got off with it?

am interested as this feels like my position you are describing, would appreciate your advice on how to deal with the resentment I feel towards my siblings?